Gandi at trainer

An Italian student enrolled in the Test Pilot School practices on a simulator, trying to maneuver the airplane seen in the middle screen into a bulls-eye. The plane starts about 500 feet in front of and 200 feet above the target area, and the challenge is to see if the student can achieve the goal while staying within certain flying limits, such as how many Gs of force are created.

One of the goals here is to determine the limits of the airplane, rather than the pilots' abilities.

July 12, 2012 4:00 AM PDT

Photo by: Daniel Terdiman/CNET

| Caption by: Daniel Terdiman

 

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