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  • Thumbnail for Fifth-generation fighter
    threats. Therefore, tactical control could be shifted forwards to the pilots in the fighters. Michael Wynne, former Secretary of the United States Air Force...
    70 KB (5,812 words) - 14:36, 4 August 2024
  • instructed airplane pilots to fly no closer than 0.80 km (0.5 mi) to walrus haul-outs and no lower than 2,000 ft (610 m) and helicopter pilots to fly no closer...
    336 KB (35,661 words) - 08:37, 3 August 2024
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    single-engine canard delta aircraft weighing about 24,000 lb (11,000 kg) empty. ASTOVL was rechristened as the Common Affordable Lightweight Fighter (CALF) in 1993...
    290 KB (25,348 words) - 15:16, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northrop T-38 Talon
    Boeing–Saab T-7 Red Hawk with phaseout to begin in 2023. In 1952, Northrop began work on a fighter project, the N-102 Fang, with shoulder-mounted delta wing and...
    57 KB (5,593 words) - 18:07, 15 July 2024
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    destroying 554.33 aircraft and 50 balloons, and 36 pilots are recognized as being aces. The pilots of the 1st Group included Captain Eddie Rickenbacker...
    73 KB (8,625 words) - 16:34, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Grumman F-14 Tomcat (category 1970s United States fighter aircraft)
    and could serve both as a fighter-bomber and an interceptor aircraft—instead of buying more F-105 Thunderchief and F-106 Delta Dart aircraft to fill each...
    167 KB (19,509 words) - 09:04, 4 August 2024
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    RSAF assigns the fighter to select pilots who graduate from a localized version of Top Gun established by former USAF and USN pilots. The bigger plot...
    429 KB (45,703 words) - 16:26, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gerald Gustafson
    was actively involved in the VFW, the Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association, and the Air Force Association. He often spoke to students and classes...
    10 KB (655 words) - 03:31, 7 March 2024
  • The Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) is a British training school for test pilots and flight test engineers of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft at...
    57 KB (2,190 words) - 06:58, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Memphis Belle (aircraft)
    organized Memphis Belle Memorial Association, Inc. (MBMA) saw the bomber moved to Mud Island in the Mississippi River in 1987 for display in a new pavilion...
    32 KB (3,785 words) - 21:19, 31 July 2024
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    members. Five of the ANG pilots also volunteered as Misty Forward Air Controllers (FACs) flying the F-100 Super Sabre. In all, ANG pilots were awarded 23 Silver...
    165 KB (17,338 words) - 16:28, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 157th Fighter Squadron
    with pilots, maintenance specialists and support staffers. They provided air support to ground units from Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. Pilots flew...
    29 KB (3,476 words) - 07:27, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for 354th Fighter Wing
    3d Fighter Training Squadron, which became the 353d Fighter Squadron (later Combat Training Squadron). The 353 FS and 355 FS had long associations with...
    49 KB (5,653 words) - 01:50, 29 May 2023
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    pilots. Initial plans called for the training of 2,800 bomber pilots per year at Ellington Field or about ten percent of the total number of pilots trained...
    42 KB (5,143 words) - 20:18, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for North American F-86 Sabre
    North American F-86 Sabre (category 1940s United States fighter aircraft)
    to the training, aggressiveness, and experience of the F-86 pilots. American Sabre pilots were trained at Nellis, where the casualty rate of their training...
    94 KB (11,381 words) - 17:33, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 169th Fighter Wing
    courageously piloted his malfunctioning F-104 fighter jet away from populated areas near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to crash into the Susquehanna River. On 1...
    23 KB (2,738 words) - 04:55, 5 June 2023
  • Force "Test Pilots" aerobatic team collided in mid-air and crashed away from the public. No one was hurt on the ground, and both pilots (Alexander Beschastonov...
    264 KB (24,640 words) - 10:13, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles L. Kelly
    off. Many times at night Dustoff pilots would have to make several flights into Can Tho. On return flights the pilots often found loads of injured ARVN...
    69 KB (7,895 words) - 16:53, 26 June 2024
  • 900 German fighters and fighter-bombers launched a surprise attack on Allied airfields. Approximately 300 aircraft were lost, 237 pilots killed, missing...
    242 KB (32,120 words) - 04:59, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 75th Ranger Regiment
    by a small element of Delta Force operators. The DEVGRU squadron were supported by a reinforced Ranger platoon as was the Delta Force squadron, all part...
    124 KB (12,791 words) - 19:21, 4 August 2024
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