I hated to be in a plane being flown by someone I didn't know, who I had not personally drug tested.

Yet he joined the parade, but not before personally testing the ropes that held Casca to the olive tree.

By the age of 22, Borsodi was personally testing the idea of moving "back to the land."

He noted that he personally tested an MCI local residential line and experienced service problems.

But she never personally tested recipes for her columns or books, leaving that to the Trib's ninth-floor test kitchen.

Emperor Xuanzong therefore gathered the 64 passing examinees and personally tested them.

Germain made a full recovery to personally test many of the airlock prototype parachutes, often in extreme conditions.

"I'll personally test it first," Rayford said.

Tom personally tested the searchlights, solar batteries that ran the electrical system, and a rotor adjustment on the seacopter.

During his lifetime he personally tested over 100 planes.