Sentences with phrase «fighter pilots in»

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

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.

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

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.

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

Ronsel is recruited to fight in a tank brigade, while Jamie trains as a fighter pilot in the air force.

Director William Wellman, who earned the nickname «Wild Bill» as a fighter pilot in the First World War, plucked him from near - obscurity to play Lt. Bill Walker, the CO of an infantry division embroiled in World War II's Italian campaign, in The Story of G.I. Joe.

Super Stardust Ultra VR throws gamers into the distant future as they become a star fighter pilot in order to defend their planet from an alien invasion.

You play as a fighter pilot in the 1930s tasked with...

Squadron Leader Peter Williamson, an English fighter pilot in World War II, has been injured and had to bail out over the English Chann...

Colonel Ridge Zirkander isn't the model of military professionalism — he has a tendency to say exactly what's on his mind, and his record has enough demerits to wallpaper the hull of an airship — but as the best fighter pilot in the Iskandian army, he's used to a little leniency from his superiors.

After earning a degree in finance, Ferri was an officer and fighter pilot in the US Marine Corps.

Taking place in the future, the player fills the role of David Crenshaw, a fighter pilot in the High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron or H.A.W.X. for the U.S. Air Force.

«Whether that's playing as an iconic character like Rey or Luke, as a front - line trooper or fighter pilot in epic multiplayer battles, or playing through a new Star Wars story that bridges the gap between Star Wars: Return of the Jedi ™ and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, you will become a hero in Star Wars Battlefront II.»

Bacon first met Peter Lacy, a former fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, around 1952 and they pursued a tempestuous relationship until Lacy's death in 1962.

Francis took up painting in the hospital while recovering from a spinal injury he suffered while serving as a fighter pilot in World War II.

It was said that a fighter pilot in the Israeli air force had been ordered to bomb a target on the outskirts of Saida, but knowing the building was a school, he refused to destroy it.

Norman Bluhm studied architecture with Mies van der Rohe in Chicago prior to serving as a B - 26 fighter pilot in World War II.

He was a fighter pilot in the Navy, so we used his experiences for Henry's nursery.

Not exact matches

Date of birth: 05/27/64 Year he enlisted in the Army: 1983 Year he received his pilot's wings: 1994 Year he flew his first combat mission, in Kosovo: 1999 Year he completed the fighter weapons instructor course (a.k.a. the «Top Gun» course): 2000 Flying hours logged: More than 3,100

He narrowly survived a test ride in the back of an out - of - control Phantom F - 4 fighter while studying ways to stop the aircraft's treacherous handling from killing pilots in Vietnam.

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.

The pilot, Tammie Jo Shults, who used to fly US Navy fighter jets, guided the airplane, which took off from New York and was bound for Dallas, to a landing in Philadelphia.

One of my childhood heroes was the pilot Douglas Bader, who lost both his legs in a crash early in his career but went on to fly fighter planes for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

«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.

Moscow, SANA - A Russian fighter plane has crashed off the coast of Jableh City in Lattakia, killing two pilots on board, the Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed.

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 space program of the»60s and»70s turned skilled fighter jet pilots into passive passengers — spam in a can.»

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

Two years after the war, as a Navy test pilot, his P - 80 Shooting Star fighter jet would crash on takeoff in a Panamanian jungle, costing him both arms.

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.

Yarborough, a private pilot who dreams of being a fighter jockey, compared his short flight to taking off in a plane.

An Air Force helicopter pilot, a New York City fire marshal and former fire fighter and a newly - minted attorney were commemorated with a memorial service in Washington Square Park and a celebration in a nearby NYU auditorium Thursday.

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.

She is a former Air Force pilot and the first woman to fly a fighter jet 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 Chief of Air Staff, Air Mashall Sadique Abubakar has personally commanded fighter jets in the war on terror to motivate fighter - pilots into putting in their best.

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar has personally commanded fighter jets in the war on terror to motivate fighter - pilots into putting in their best.

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.

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.

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.»

, author of The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles, is a decorated fighter pilot, astronaut, aquanaut, and entrepreneur.

In fact, after seeing the movie «Top Gun» when I was in sixth grade, I decided I wanted to become a fighter piloIn fact, after seeing the movie «Top Gun» when I was in sixth grade, I decided I wanted to become a fighter piloin sixth grade, I decided I wanted to become a fighter pilot!

Your body doesn't so much «switch» to anaerobic but instead turns on the anaerobic system, in the same sense that fighter jet pilots don't «switch» to the afterburners to go supersonic but rather use them in addition to current engine power.

In my earlier days after graduating from USC with a BA in Communications, I was an Air Force Captain and fighter piloIn my earlier days after graduating from USC with a BA in Communications, I was an Air Force Captain and fighter piloin Communications, I was an Air Force Captain and fighter pilot.

Preston, a former fighter pilot, wrote his winning love letter to Kristina and was flown in to present her with the keys to the Mercedes during an award show in Odessa.

In the storyline, planet Earth's resistance aims to stop a deadly infection consuming both life forms and technology alike, oddly having to rely on an anti-hero mercenary and bounty hunter to pilot a mighty prototype star fighter.