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Originally Posted by Buzzard
So what all does a test flight like that entail anyway? I mean how far, how high etc.? Do they just head'er off the coast a few hundred miles and u turn it back home?
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The first flight wouldn't be much but now they'll go crazy on the airframe doing things that should never come up on commercial flights. They'll do high G maneuvers even low speed barrel rolls to make sure it wont fall apart, they will slam it into the ground (very rough landings)..etc.
Pretty much everything they can think of to make sure it will be safe for the public. Usually the crazy stuff is done by air-force pilots (at least it use to be that way anyway)