Ace
Ace noun - A person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field.
Test pilot and ace are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Test pilot" instead a noun "Ace".
Test pilot
Test pilot noun - A pilot hired to fly experimental airplanes through maneuvers designed to test them.
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Phil Stone is a subversion, since he's a retired Korean War ace that moved on to being a test pilot of the X-15 suborbital spaceplane in the 50s and 60s.
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Ace himself is an obvious mirror version of Rimmer, being a confident heroic and sexy test pilot, as is Lister's counterpart "Spanners", who is a successful engineer who is married to Kochanski with twin boys.
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During the first episode, Ace Pilot Eika got defeated by a new, Sonic Diver-piloting test pilot when her target transformed and attacked from the direction of the sun.
Source: Blinded by the Light
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