Sentences with phrase «i fighter pilot»

According to this U.S. Air Force fighter pilot — turned — management consultant, most companies aren't planning ahead nearly enough

The hardest transition for most fighter pilots is to go from just flying an airplane to employing an airplane.

Though its expanded its total force during the 2016 fiscal year, as of April 2017 it was still 1,555 pilots short — more than 1,000 of them fighter pilots — of the roughly 20,000 it is mandated to have.

At the end of fiscal year 2016 in September that year, the Air Force had 1,555 fewer pilots than it needed, including 1,211 missing fighter pilots.

IAG said on Thursday it had bought a 4.61 percent stake in Norwegian as a platform for starting talks, and that could lead to it making a full offer for the airline founded by former fighter pilot Bjorn Kjos.

John spent his life breaking barriers, from defending our freedom as a decorated Marine Corps fighter pilot in World War II and Korea, to setting a transcontinental speed record, to becoming, at age 77, the oldest human to touch the stars.

A union fighter pilot famously took to the skies, bombing Stelco with leaflets enticing workers to join the battle.

As American forces defended themselves with well - trained fighter pilots and ship gunners, the enemies» ambitious nature proved costly.

Glenn was also a decorated Marine Corps fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War.

HERZLIYA, Israel, Oct 30 - Lockheed Martin Corp said on Tuesday that it was making progress on resolving technical issues facing the cutting - edge helmet being developed for use by F - 35 fighter pilots, and it cited positive initial reports from night flight tests of the system.

Neeb: Flawless Execution is born from and based on the techniques of elite military teams — fighter pilots, navy seals — but we invented its [application to the] business process.

Jim «Murph» Murphy, a former fighter pilot and cofounder of Afterburner, a corporate training consultancy.

What it's about: Aliens are invading Earth, and the only hope is fighter pilot captain Steven Hille AKA Will Smith.

What it's about: A young United States Navy student competes with his fellow students over being the best fighter pilot and learns a few life lessons along the way.

As the son of a World War II fighter pilot, I grew up an Air Force brat and went to air shows every year.

It wasn't until they got back home, when they started reviewing the pictures, that they noticed a third unidentified aircraft that they described as a «triangular» object which appeared to be dogfighting the «Vipers» (as the F - 16s are dubbed within the fighter pilots community).

She credits the experience with her later career decisions and says she became «an endurance athlete and a fighter pilot because I was looking for ways to not be powerless.»

«We remember Cajun as an airman, a warrior, a talented fighter pilot, and a great friend with more than 3,500 flight hours in over 30 different aircraft,» Walsh says in the video.

Poe Dameron, a good guy fighter pilot given a familiar scruffy - lookin», nerf - herding swagger by Inside Llewyn Davis «Oscar Isaac.

An outlaw bandana masked his mouth and shiny orange goggles hid his eyes, like a fighter pilot.

The RAF's young fighter pilots often flew four or five missions a day, in the most physically and mentally taxing circumstances imaginable; fully one - third of them were killed, gravely wounded (often by horrible burns), or captured during the Battle of Britain.

The majority of people use to think that blacks were inferior and didn't deserve equal rights, that they couldn't be fighter pilots or the president.

Well, when you taste these Inverted Paleo Apple Pies, you'll forget about fighter pilots and start thinking about the Fall!

A bit like fighter pilots, really.

I've also watched fighter pilots in their cockpits but I'm no nearer to becoming a fighter pilot.

Founded in 2007 by Major Dan Rooney, an F - 16 fighter pilot in the Oklahoma Air National Guard who served three tours of duty in Iraq, Folds of Honor is proud to have awarded more than 13,000 scholarships in all 50 states, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, including more than 2,800 in 2016 alone.

Gilbertia is an island anywhere in the South Seas with a fine natural harbor, which is populated almost exclusively by athletes and fighter pilots.

The quarterback's job is some combination of fighter pilot squad leader, martial artist, and YouTube trick - shot video creator.

Ahead for Midshipman Kane lay a distinguished career of duty well done — as fighter pilot, fighter group leader and Pacific war ace, as postwar skipper of the carrier Saipan — until the day, last February, when the electrical system of his TV - 2 jet failed and he crashed to his death.

The war began for the U.S. at the end of the year, and he enlisted in the Navy, played service football for a season or so, got his fighter pilot's wings, saw no combat, then signed to play pro football with a generally woebegone Green Bay Packer team in 1945.

• Brian Burke, the former Navy fighter pilot who founded the forward - thinking analytics website Advanced NFL Stats.

As a young adult, he served in World Was II as a skilled fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force.

I liked the sleek look and it felt like a fighter pilot plane.

McSally wants to preserve funding in the defense budget for the Air Force's A-10 Warthog fleet, the very planes she commanded as the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat.

As a fighter pilot with the famed all - black Tuskegee Airmen in the then - segregated U.S. Air Corps, Captain Brown flew missions against the Nazi war machine.

«The Liquid Oxygen (LOX) plant will enhance the operational capability of the NAF by ensuring steady supply of LOX for use by fighter pilots.

«Liquid Oxygen is critical for the survival of our fighter pilots especially during high altitude manoeuvres.

The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has carried out multiple operations in northern Borno, during which its fighter pilots killed several Boko Haram terrorists.

A Vietnam fighter pilot had about a one in 400 chance of not surviving his first combat flight.

All that's in the works, according to Mary «Missy» Cummings, a former F / A -18 fighter pilot who is an MIT aeronautics professor focusing on human interfaces for UAVs.

Even the driver, Green, is a former fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force.

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

Some birds swooped down on other flying birds like a fighter pilot; others pounced on birds feeding on the ground.

Cummings, who served as a naval officer from 1988 to 1999 and was one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots, said the argument that killing at a distance could desensitize soldiers has evolved in tandem with advances in war - fighting technology.

«While fighter pilots have to worry about being shot down, they rarely see the results of their attack,» Slim said.

For example, if the United States Air Force has a shortage of fighter pilots, it would not go out and lobby Congress to hire fighter pilots from the former Soviet Union.

Some are visible only after sunset, none are created by seeding, and one chewed on a fighter pilot for half an hour before spitting him out, alive.

The change necessary to adopt, much less embrace, unmanned aircraft first encountered resistance from the white - scarf system of fighter pilots who believed that an unmanned system couldn't do the things a human pilot could do.

The space agency no longer recruits only seasoned fighter pilots, but also doctors, geologists, physicists, computer scientists and electrical engineers.

Missy Cummings, a former Navy fighter pilot and director of Duke University's Humans and Autonomy Laboratory, defines «on the loop» as human supervisory control: «intermittent human operator interaction with a remote, automated system in order to manage a controlled process or task environment.»