A chase plane is an aircraft that "chases" a test aircraft. For many years the best way to ensure the safety of an experimental aircraft during test flights was to send up an airplane that would fly alongside it and observe the flight.
This second airplane's crew would keep a constant lookout for problems with the test aircraft, and if problems did arise they would provide warnings and critical information to the test aircraft's crew and to the mission controllers on the ground.
In the early days of USAF testing, the chase aircraft were manned by test pilots just like the experimental planes, providing a common language and bond between test pilot and observer. The experienced pilots in the chase aircraft could guide distressed test aircraft down to safe landings when experiments went wrong.
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A chaseplane is an aircraft that "chases" another aircraft during test flights.
For many years the best way to ensure the safety of an experimental aircraft was to fly alongside it and observe the flight.
In the early days of USAF testing, the chaseaircraft were manned by test pilots just like the experimental planes, providing a common language and bond between test pilot and observer.
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