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2 unusual facts about Aircrew


Aircrew

Crew chief, an engineer responsible for the maintenance and preparation of the aircraft.

Flight surgeon, not involved in the operation of the aircraft but is considered in the American military to be aircrew.


152d Airlift Wing

A week prior to the actual exercise to test the new methods and information, personnel from the 152nd AW deployed to Mariscal Sucre International Airport, Quito to conduct training and classes aimed at improving the skills of Aircrew and Photo Interpreters.

446th Airlift Wing

An aircrew from the 313th Airlift Squadron flew a 62-member Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) team into Oklahoma City four hours after the bombing of the federal building.

Admiralty Interview Board

Potential Officers for the Royal Marines will also be required to undertake a Potential Officers' Course at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (CTCRM) at Lympstone and Aircrew candidates will have taken Flying Aptitude Tests at RAF Cranwell prior to attending the AIB.

Apna

Association des professionnels navigants de l'aviation, French association of professional aviation aircrew

ArmaLite

This saw little use, but when they were asked to compete in a contest for an aircrew survival rifle, their AR-5 and AR-7 designs from 1956 saw production use.

Armalite AR-5

The AR-5 was the basis of the MA-1 aircrew survival rifle, adopted by the US Air Force in 1956, as a replacement for the M6 Aircrew Survival Weapon.

ASRS

Aviation Safety Reporting System, the US Federal Aviation Administration voluntary system that allows aircrew to confidentially report near misses and close calls

Bill Howe

The son of Brigadier General William Francis Howe, Bill Howe attended Phillips Andover Academy before going on to serve as a Second Lieutenant as a bombardier with the 15th Air Force in World War II.

Boeing B-50 Superfortress

The B-50 was nicknamed "Andy Gump" because the redesigned engine nacelles reminded aircrew of the chinless newspaper comic character popular at the time.

Dominion of Ceylon

These were followed by Boulton Paul Balliol T.Mk.2s and Airspeed Oxford Mk.1s for advanced training of pilots and aircrew along with de Havilland Doves and de Havilland Herons for transport use, all provided by the British.

George J. Trautman, III

He completed initial aircrew training at 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing and was then transferred to 1st Marine Brigade, MCAS Kaneohe, Hawaii.

Hawker Hunter in service with Swiss Air Force

This machine was painted all-white, the names of squadron and aircrew members written across the fuselage, and the left underwing insignia featured a hybrid design between the Swiss white cross and a paper airplane.

Heinkel He 177

In early September 1944, the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) was ordered to supply an aircrew for a He 177 that the French Maquis and Allied units in Vichy France would take control of at the airfield at Blagnac near Toulouse, where elements of both the He 177A-equipped KG 4 and KG 100 Luftwaffe bomber wings were based.

Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron

The aircrew will then attempt to convince the boat crew to stop through the use of sirens, loud speakers, visual hand signals, and radio communications in both English and Spanish.

HNoMS Honningsvåg

Honningsvåg became involved in the episode later the same day when a Heinkel He 59 D-AKUK, an ambulance seaplane of the German Seenotflugkommando 1 (Sea Emergency Command 1), responded to emergency calls that the downed German aircrew had made before being captured.

Horsea Island

In the 1950s the lake was used in the testing of improved Martin Baker Ejection Seats, following catapult launch mishaps on carriers in which Fleet Air Arm aircrew often sustained serious compression injuries to the spine after ejecting from submerged aircraft.

Kadena Air Base

While deployed in Okinawa, the SR-71s and their aircrew members gained the nickname Habu (as did the A-12s preceding them) after a southeast Asian pit viper which the Okinawans thought the plane resembled.

Netherlands Naval Aviation Service

The Royal Netherlands Military Flying School was established in the United States, at Jackson Field (also known as Hawkins Field), Jackson, Mississippi, operating lend-lease aircraft, training all military aircrew for the Netherlands.

Never was so much owed by so many to so few

The speech is also well remembered for his use of the phrase "the few" to describe the Allied aircrew of Fighter Command of the RAF, whose desperate struggle gained the victory; "The Few" has come to be their nickname.

No. 1 Air Experience Flight RAF

The pilot staff comprised many experienced aircrew, some of whom had served operationally during the latter part of World War II and during the heightened tensions of the Cold War.

No. 79 Squadron RAAF

During this tour the aircrew visited Alan Rawlinson at his home at Naracoorte, South Australia, and later conducted a flyover of the town in his honour.

Operation Echo

During the campaign the Canadian air contingent consisted of 18 CF-18 Hornet aircraft from 441 and 425 Tactical Fighter Squadrons, with 69 aircrew and 250 ground crew.

Operation Ruthless

A German Heinkel was prepared with an aircrew of German-speaking Englishmen.

RAF Kinloss

The wartime Avro Lancaster was adapted without great upheaval for anti-submarine and search and rescue duties and RAF Kinloss changed from a bomber training unit, to a Coastal Command base training maritime aircrew.

Rudi Linz

On 9 February 1945 Linz was shot down and killed in action flying Focke Wulf Fw 190A-8 (Werknummer 732183—factory number) in defense of the German destroyer Z33 in an operation which was later labeled as Black Friday by the Allied aircrew.

Samuel Dash

At the age of 18, with the United States engaged in fighting World War II, Dash enlisted in the Army Air Corps and served as a bombardier navigator, flying missions over Italy.

Shigetaka Ōmori

At the beginning of World War II, he was assigned to the aircrew complement of the aircraft carrier Hōshō.

Strike Fighter Weapons School Atlantic

Both schools are also responsible for training of Forward Air Controllers (Airborne), after completion of the Tactical Air Control Party course, F/A-18F aircrew’s receive 17 lectures and nine flights provided by the FAC(A) instructors at the weapons school, after completion of the training, the FAC(A)s are able to coordinate weapons employment in support of close-air-support missions with friendly troops.

Weapon systems officer

This one-day course located at Brooks City-Base, San Antonio, Texas, tests WSOs selected for the F-15E in their ability to withstand the g-forces routinely experienced by fighter aircrew.


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