The Hardest Part of Test Flying Isn't the Flying

Most pilots would rather not be the first one to fly a brand-new airplane. Elliot Seguin has built a career on it. Recorded at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, this In The Hangar conversation takes you inside the real job of an experimental test pilot. Elliot traces it back to a family Globe Swift that got a bigger engine and went record hunting. Then he takes apart the Hollywood picture: the hands-and-feet flying matters, but the real work is explaining risk to everyone from the CEO to the night-shift m…