Sentences with phrase «british fighter pilot»

The trio has a star - crossed encounter with a wrecked, traumatized British soldier (Cillian Murphy) and then makes a tense rescue attempt of a downed British fighter pilot (Jack Lowden).

This becomes something of a literal resolve when her beloved, British fighter pilot Peter Gregory (Rupert Penry - Jones), is shot down during a surveillance flight over France and is rumoured to be dead.

This enabled World War II British fighter pilots to dive without fear that their engines would cut out.

Not exact matches

750 OR BUST In 1997, British RAF fighter pilot Andy Green set a new land speed record with a boom — a sonic boom, that is — by going 763.7 mph in the Thrust SSC at Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

Enlist the efforts of chaps such as the dashing RAF fighter plane pilot Roald Dahl to wine and dine their way into Washington DC's inner circle, plant specific (sympathetic to Britain) information into hands that would, in turn, work it into newspapers and magazines, then deliver American intelligence back to the British leadership.

Dahl, who was also a British spy, fighter pilot and medical pioneer, had an overwhelming passion for art.