They don't hand out Ph.D.s in test piloting, but you pick up a tremendous amount of scientific and engineering knowledge along the way. After all, when you take up a brand new plane and put it through its paces to see if it will hang together, you are really flying somebody's theory.

I met Betty Moore when she entered Mitchell High School as a freshman, and that was it - period, exclamation point!

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

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