Air Force selects 52 for test-pilot training Published April 14, 2004 RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Air Force officials selected 52 officers to join the service's test-pilot program. The selection board met here in November."Test pilot school is a great opportunity for officers to broaden their perspective," said Col. Kathleen Grabowski, chief of assignments programs and procedures at the Air Force Personnel Center here. "This is just another example of the type of programs we want officers to consider under force development." Most of those selected will attend the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Two will attend the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. One is slated for the French Test Pilot School at Istres, France. Six others will attend the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where they will earn a master's degree in aeronautical or electrical engineering before continuing on to test pilot school.A complete list of people selected is online at www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/pubaffairs/release/2004/04/TestPilot.htm. (Courtesy of AFPC News Service)