Possible Clues:

• Airman's plan to protect one on trial
• New-plane flier
• Expert whose work is often on a different plane
• Examine scheme to include one high-flyer
• Match plan includes one whose flight is under scrutiny
• International scheme covering one person involved in aircraft development
• Neil Armstrong, e.g., before becoming an astronaut
• Match religious group with flying guinea pig?
• High-flier whose performance is often on another plane
• Top titles go out to Neville Duke