Sentences with phrase «raf fighter pilot»

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.

During the second world war, experts needed to decide whom to train as RAF fighter pilots.

Not exact matches

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.

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.