Sentences with phrase «of fighter pilot»

«At some point we could sit down and spend a good number of hours talking about where VR needs to get to in order to work with [Battlefront 2], because in something like this you're doing the job of a fighter pilot,» he explained in an interview with Metro.

As you might imagine from the lack of fighter pilot pigs, giant cat things or moving castles, this is a tale that takes place predominately in the real world.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Director Roland Emmerich is best known for the sci - fi spectacle Independence Day, in which a stern but loving U.S. president leads a group of fighter pilots into the wild blue yonder to kick some alien ass.

The skill and accuracy of fighter pilots and bombers have rendered ground - based warfare inefficient, and left many of the soldiers redundant.

Players will take to the stars as part of a group of fighter pilots to take on a fleet of evil robots intent on invading your home system of Atlas.

The new works depict images of fighter pilots and airplanes, classic motifs in Morley's oeuvre since the early 1990s.

Not exact matches

And so we have an answer to that,» a pilot flying an EA - 18G Growler, the US Navy's electronic attack version of the F - 18 carrier - based fighter jet, told GMA News Online.

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.

Jeffrey Kohler, Boeing's vice president of business development and a former U.S. Air Force pilot, said the fighter — a new, improved version of the CF - 18 — is more rugged and better suited to Canada's harsh climate.

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.

On my visit, I «fly» an F - 16 and take a tour to see how the company is using VR to train pilots of the world's most advanced fighter jet, the F - 35 Lightning II.

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.

The episode comes just over a week after a HAF pilot died after his Mirage 2000 - 5 fighter jet crashed near the island of Skyros.

Therefore, it gives an idea of the g - forces on André Brännström, Saab test pilot, as he performs extreme aerobatics with the JAS - 39 Gripen C light single - engine multirole fighter aircraft.

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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

The officer, AVM Alkali Mamu, was one of the most intelligent, kind - hearted, honest and highly experienced Nigeria's fighter - pilot who had also flown many heads of states.

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

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.

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

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.

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.»

Hummingbirds are the fighter pilots of the avian world, diving and weaving at speeds of up to 55 kilometers per hour — then turning on a dime to hover midair, wings frantically beating, as they refuel on nectar.

Similarly, trainer jets for beginning fighter pilots are built like young red - tailed hawks, with longer wings and bigger tails that provide more lift and stability at the expense of speed and maneuverability.

The pilots of two Greek fighter jets scrambled to intercept the 737 escorted it for 42 minutes.

, 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.

With its military fighter pilot origins, this jacket will instantly give you an injection of attitude.

[Xbox Live Arcade] Pilot a jet fighter with the capability to travel through time to destroy wave after wave of enemies.

Assume the role of an elite fighter pilot and immerse yourself in virtual reality space combat.

Players can participate in some of the war's most famous battles piloting fighters, battle planes and heavy bombers across a range of thrilling missions.

This is easily one of the greatest fighter pilot games out there.

Director William Wellman drew on his own WWI French Foreign Legion aviator combat experience, including being shot down by anti-aircraft fire, to dramatize this story of two American fighter pilots, Jack Powell and David Armstrong...