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Stephen Low

Based in Montreal, Quebec, over his 30-plus year career Low has directed numerous award-winning film documentaries including Challenger: An Industrial Romance (1980), Beavers (1988), Titanica (1991), Super Speedway (1997), Volcanoes of the Deep Sea (2003), Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag (2004), Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D (2010), Legends of Flight 3D (2010), Rescue 3D (2011) and Rocky Mountain Express (2011).


Foyle's War

There are some running strands, mainly involving the career of Foyle's son Andrew (played by Julian Ovenden), a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force, or Foyle's continuing relationships with cameo characters.

Harsha Abeywickrama

Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrema, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP, rcds, psc, qfi, SLAF is a Sri Lankan fighter pilot and the current Commander of the Sri Lankan Air Force.

Kazimierz Leski

Kazimierz Leski, nom de guerre Bradl (21 June 1912 — 27 May 2000), was a Polish engineer, co-designer of the Polish submarines ORP Sęp and ORP Orzeł, a fighter pilot, and an officer in World War II Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence.


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4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron

The idea of a more realistic training program for the Air Force was devised by USAF Colonel Gail Peck, a Vietnam veteran F-4 pilot, who was dissatisfied with his service's fighter pilot training.

A Guy Named Joe

He is to be sent back to Earth, where a year has elapsed, to pass on his experience and knowledge to dilettante Ted Randall (Van Johnson), first in flight school, then as a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter pilot in the south Pacific.

Alec Bennett

He did not return to the United Kingdom until active duty with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War when he served as a dispatch rider and later as fighter pilot.

Alexandru Şerbănescu

Alexandru "Alecu" Şerbănescu (17 May 1912 in Coloneşti, Olt County – 18 August 1944 in Ruşavăţ, Buzău County) was a leading Romanian fighter pilot and flying ace in World War II.

Anatoli Ivanishin

Since 1992, he served as a senior fighter pilot in the 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment based in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, part of the 6th Air Army.

Avord

Captain Georges Madon, fighter pilot of World War I, trained at the airforce base here, which now bears his name.

Aydoğan Babaoğlu

He served as a fighter pilot at the 5th Main Jet Base in Merzifon between 1966 and 1970 and at the 9th Main Jet Base in Balıkesir between 1970 and 1974.

Barry Diamond

Fighter Pilot was released on IRS Records in June 1983 after Diamond was discovered by IRS's Miles Copeland III.

Besby Holmes

Lieutenant Colonel Besby Frank Holmes, 1917–2006, a World War II fighter pilot who in 1943 took part in the famous—and famously controversial—mission to kill legendary Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Dimitar Spisarevski

Later, he went on to study in Nazi Germany, where he graduated from the fighter pilot school in Werneuchen in 1938.

Domecq

Álvaro Domecq y Díez, fighter pilot, bullfighting promoter and member of the Spanish sherry family

Elmer Harris

Elmer W. Harris, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot during the Korean War

Escadrille 103

Escadrille 103 of the French Air Force was an elite aviation unit on the Western Front during the World War I. One of its many aces, René Fonck was the highest scoring Allied fighter-pilot.

Frank Lawrence

Lawrence began his career before the war at Dagenham, but his career was put on hold while he served during the war in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot, flying Hawker Typhoons.

Friedrich-Karl Müller

Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller, (1912 – 1987), German fighter pilot with KG z.b.V 172, KG 50, NJ Kdo, JG Hermann, JG 300, NJGr 10, NJG 11

Friedrich-Karl "Tutti" Müller, (1916 – 1944), German fighter pilot with JG 53 and JG 3

George M. Cox

After training as a fighter pilot, he was posted in 1917 to 65 Squadron to fly Sopwith Camel no.

Großenhain

Manfred von Richthofen (1892–1918): German fighter pilot known as The Red Baron, was trained as observer at the local airport

Halberstadt D.II

Believed to have been first tried within the first six months of 1916, future German rocketry pioneer Leutnant Rudolf Nebel, then flying as a fighter pilot with Jasta 5, one of the earliest German fighter squadrons within the Luftstreitkräfte, used a Halberstadt D.II aircraft of that unit in the first known German attempt at arming an aircraft with wing-mounted rockets as long range armament.

Hans Böhning

He served the German Empire first as an artilleryman, then as an aerial observer for artillery, as a fighter pilot, and finally as the Staffelführer of a fighter squadron.

Harald von Hirschfeld

Von Hirschfeld was married to Sylvinia von Dönhoff, who later married the former fighter pilot Adolf Galland.

Jean-Paul Paloméros

He acquired extensive experience both as an operational commander and as a fighter pilot, having flown 82 combat missions and more than 3,500 flying hours, mostly on Mirage F1C and Mirage 2000 aircraft.

K. C. Irving

His father did not oppose his second attempt to enlist and Irving entered the Royal Flying Corps as a fighter pilot, although he never saw action as the war ended shortly thereafter.

Kenneth Adam

:For the film set designer and former fighter pilot, see Ken Adam

McLennan County, Texas

(One such public lynching is the catalyst behind a "Lynching Resolution" being discussed by both the Waco City Council and the McLennan County Commissioners Court.) McLennan County's contributions to World War II include the reopening of Rich Field, Doris Miller (awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism at Pearl Harbor, also the first African American to earn such distinction), and James Connally (a locally famous World War II fighter pilot).

Mustache March

Robin Olds "Wolf of Kunsan" (July 14, 1922 – June 14, 2007) was an American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force.

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

Charles L. Veach (1944–1995), USAF fighter pilot and NASA astronaut

No. 145 Squadron RAF

American fighter pilot Lance C. Wade, one of the leading Allied Aces in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO), was a Flight Commander and Squadron Leader of No. 145 Squadron.

OODA loop

Consider a fighter pilot being scrambled to shoot down an enemy aircraft.

Orazio Pierozzi

His passenger was another fighter pilot, His Royal Highness Aimone di Savoia.

Pinellas Army Airfield

A plaque was dedicated at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport passenger terminal in 1994 by the P-51 Fighter Pilots Association and Brigadier General James H. Howard, USAF (Ret), the only European Theater fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II and the last wartime base commander of Pinellas Army Airfield.

Rex T. Barber Veterans Memorial Bridge

In 2003, the bridge, initially named the Crooked River Bridge, was renamed for Rex T. Barber, a native of the area and the World War II fighter pilot who shot down the plane carrying Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

Reza Pahlavi

In 1980, at the start of the Iran–Iraq War, Reza Pahlavi, a highly trained fighter pilot, wrote to General Valiollah Fallahi, Chief Commander of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic, offering to fight in the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force.

Risner

James Robinson Risner (born 1925), general officer and professional fighter pilot in the United States Air Force

Robert J. McIntosh

McIntosh served in the United States Air Force from 1942 to 1945 and was assigned to the Eighth Air Force in England as a fighter pilot.

Rogožarski R-100

These planes were designed for fighter-pilot training in Bela Crkva.

Salt Spring Air

His father, John B.McColl, was a decorated fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain.

Sam Scorer

He served as a fighter pilot until 1945, but was invalided out of service, having attempted to land on a moving carrier in the Baltic Sea.

Stalag Luft I

Hubert Zemke, career officer in the USAAF, fighter pilot in World War II, and a leading USAAF ace.

Stéphane Abrial

From 1977 to 1991, he served as a fighter pilot both in France (in Cambrai, Dijon and Orange) and, from 1981 to 1984, in a West German Luftwaffe unit.

Strelow

Hans Strelow (1922–1942), German fighter pilot in World War II

Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 31

On 20 April 1961 the wing was given the name "Boelcke", in honor of the World War I Luftstreitkräfte fighter pilot Oswald Boelcke.

Timur Apakidze

From the late 1980s to the early 1990s he was considered the best Soviet then Russian fighter pilot, being the first one who would land a Su-27K (Su-33) on deck of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov on September 26, 1991.

William Blackwood

During World War II Blackwood was a fighter pilot and at the height of the Battle of Britain recalled looking down from 25,000 feet to see the firm's London office in Paternoster Row ablaze.

William Fiske

Billy Fiske, born William Meade Lindsley Fiske III, American Olympic medal-winner and WWII fighter pilot

William Steger

In recognition for his bravery as a fighter pilot in World War II, Steger received the Air Medal and four Oak Leaf Clusters and attained the rank of captain.