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Education: 1979: graduated from the Royal School of Cadets, Lier, Belgium; 1984: awarded the AIA Prize for the best thesis on his masters degree in telecommunications and civil engineering from the Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium;1991: completed the Staff Course at the Defence College in Brussels, gaining the highest distinction; 1992: graduated from the Empire Test Pilot’s School in Boscombe Down, United Kingdom, where he was awarded the McKenna Trophy.
After completing his pilot training with the Belgian Air Force in 1986, Frank De Winne flew Mirage V aircraft.

He was detached to SAGEM in Paris, France in 1989 where he worked on the Mirage Safety Improvement Programme. He was responsible for preparing operational and technical specifications. In December 1992, Frank De Winne was appointed to the Test and Evaluation branch of the Belgian Air Force.

As a test pilot, he was involved in an electronic