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unusual facts about Jet Pilot


Big Jim McLain

The film was rushed into release to beat two other John Wayne films, RKO's The Jet Pilot, which was not released until 1957, and Republic's The Quiet Man.



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Amazing Grace and Chuck

Chuck Murdock, a 12-year-old boy from Montana, the son of a military jet pilot, becomes anxious after seeing a Minuteman missile on a school field trip, which is intensified by a nightmare of a fork dropping after being told that the speed and effectivess would be done "before a dropped fork hits the floor".

Clark Haas

Before working professionally in cartoons, Haas was a pioneer jet pilot, according to Cambria Studios voice-actress, Margaret Kerry.

Fu Szeto

He checked out as an F-86, F-100 and F-104 jet pilot and got citations from the USAF.

Nader Jahanbani

In 1952, Jahanbani was selected to be sent to Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in Germany to attend the jet pilot training school to become a pilot for the first Iranian jet fighter aircraft, the F-84 Thunderjet, which was slated for delivery in 1955, along with 15 other pilots including Mohammad Khatami.