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unusual facts about pilots


Newark Co-Pilots

The Newark Co-Pilots were a minor league baseball team based in Newark, New York that played in the New York-Penn League from 1968 to 1979.


100th Fighter Squadron

The Alabama ANG contingent, which included nearly twenty fighter pilots and eight F-16s, exercised with approximately 200 Romanian soldiers, technical staff, and pilots flying six Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 "Fishbed" fighters at 71st Air Base, located near the town of Câmpia Turzii in the northwestern part of Romania.

1988 British International Helicopters Sikorsky S-61N crash

The helicopter left the Safe Felicia semi-submersible oil rig in the Forties oilfield at 13:45 with 2 pilots and a full load of 19 passengers for the one hour flight to Sumburgh Airport on the Mainland of Shetland.

479th Flying Training Group

Among the notable pilots of the 479th were its second group commander, Col. Hubert Zemke, with 17.75 confirmed aerial victories and Major Robin Olds, who was officially credited with 12 German planes shot down and 11.5 others destroyed on the ground.

90th Aero Squadron

On 15 April 1918, fifteen British Sopwith 1½ Strutter observation planes arrived from Orly Field, Paris and six pilots were assigned to the Squadron.

99th Aero Squadron

On 23 March, 18 pilots were assigned to the squadron and an equal number of aircraft, British Sopwith 1½ Strutter, commonly called "Pups".

Aeronca Sedan

(The accompanying support aircraft, also a Sedan, was called the Lady’s Maid.) Departing from the Fullerton, California, Municipal Airport on March 15, the flight crossed the United States to Miami, Florida, where bad weather forced the pilots to circle for 14 days before making the return trip to Fullerton.

AgustaWestland AW609

On 6 December 2002, the first ground tests of the BA609 prototype began, and the first flight took place on 6 March 2003 in Arlington, Texas, flown by test pilots Roy Hopkins and Dwayne Williams.

Aldasoro brothers

On the graduation day, the authorities authorised one of the recent pilots to fly over the Statue of Liberty.

Arcadia, Florida

Carlstrom Field, one of several satellite fields in the Fort Myers Area, also trained pilots for the Royal Air Force until its closing in 1945.

Audio signal processing

overdrive effects such as the use of a fuzz box can be used to produce distorted sounds, such as for imitating robotic voices or to simulate distorted radiotelephone traffic (e.g., the radio chatter between starfighter pilots in the science fiction film Star Wars).

Auxiliary Pilot Badge

During the campaign to recapture the Philippines, pilots of the 25th Liaison Squadron flew a dozen L-5 aircraft in short 30-minute flights (Dec. 10-25, 1944) delivering supplies (including a 300-bed hospital) to the 6,000 men of the 11th Airborne Division isolated in the mountains of Leyte.

Aviation English

However, because many pilots and controllers lack proficiency in English, accidents have continued to result from miscommunication, including the deadliest aviation accident in history: the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster, which claimed 583 lives.

Avro 536

In service at Blackpool, Avro 536s flown by three pilots were able to fly around 500 passengers on their first day of operation.

B-25 Mitchell aircraft in Catch-22

Tallmantz president, Frank G. Tallman ended up finding war-surplus aircraft, and eventually gathered not only pilots to fly the aircraft but also a ground support crew to maintain the fleet.

Bill Yates

He served as an aviator in the United States Navy during WWII, training fighter pilots in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he married Jessie Jean ("Skippy") Hardy.

Bobbi Trout

This was another record broken by Trout and was later recognized by King Carol II of Romania where a representative gave her the Royal Decree and the aviation cross for pilots who made record flights, a distinction which was only given to two other pilots - Earhart and Charles Lindbergh.

Century Airlines pilots' strike

Several more congressmen vocalized their displeasure with Cord’s conduct including Representative William Larson from Georgia as well as Melvin Maas of Minnesota who asked the Secretaries of War and Navy to discourage military pilots on leave from flying Century planes, while two more representatives contacted the Mayor of Chicago to ask him to investigate the business affairs of Cord in Chicago.

Claresholm, Alberta

Royal Canadian Air Force Station Claresholm was established near the town in 1941 to train pilots for service in World War II.

Curtiss SO3C Seamew

Lettice Curtis, in her book "Forgotten Pilots", stated 'that although its standard fuel tanks held 300 gallons, it would only just take off with the eighty gallons' fixed as the maximum for Air Transport Auxiliary trips.

Dan Staley

After Cheers ended its run, Staley went on to create numerous pilots and several series including George and Leo, Love & Money and Men, Women & Dogs.

Guizhou JL-9

The GAIEC first revealed its intention to develop a new generation of fighter-trainer to replace its own JJ-7 fighter-trainer at the 2001 China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition to meet new PLAAF trainer requirements to prepare pilots for China's newest generation of fighter aircraft such as the Chengdu J-10 and Sukhoi-derived aircraft, such as the Sukhoi Su-27SK, Sukhoi Su-30MKK and Shenyang J-11.

HC Gilje

Apart from 242.pilots, he collaborated with several musicians, composers, and improvisers, including Justin Bennett, Yannis Kyriakides, Kelly Davis, Maja Ratkje and Jazzkammer (John Hegre/Lasse Marhaug).

Henschel Hs 129

Though equipped with generally unsuitable designs such as the Henschel Hs 123 and cannon-armed versions of the Heinkel He 112, their armament and pilots proved that the aircraft was a very effective weapon even without bombs.

Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield

The K21 is used for first-time flyers and trial-lessons, the K13 is used as a trainer, and the Ka6 is used for solo pilots, as is the Astir (G-CGBJ) used for more experienced pilots.

John Wilson McConnell

During World War II, after the United States Lend-lease program was launched in March 1941, fellow Canadian businessman Max Aitken, the then volunteer British Minister of Aircraft Production, asked McConnell to help finance the training of pilots such as Jackie Cochran in the United States to ferry American-built aircraft across the Atlantic.

Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Halifax

Secondary resources include the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA) which is a national organization of volunteer pilots/aircraft owners who actively participate in aircraft searches and receive compensation for their services.

Joseph Vuillemin

Commenting to General Edward Spears on 30 May 1940, the British Air Attaché in Paris, Air Commodore Douglas Colyer, criticised certain senior French officers saying that, while they had been very brave pilots in the last war, they were not sufficiently educated to command important formations now.

Kara Saun

After Project Runway, Saun was costume designer for the hit WB series What I Like About You, starring Amanda Bynes and Jennie Garth, designed for the America’s Next Top Model Campaign 5 advertisement, and designed costumes for various TV series and pilots, such as UPN’s R U the Girl, the ABC sitcom Notes from the Underbelly and MTV's Celebrity Rap Superstar.

Lake Neale

Lake Neale was named after Frank Neale, one of the pilots of an aerial expedition to accurately survey the desert regions northwest of Alice Springs in 1930.

Lambach HL.II

There were no Dutch aircraft competing in the North Dutch Flying Club's first international aerobatics competition held in Eelde in the spring of 1936; from a field of German and Dutch pilots, the best placed Dutchman cam second, flying a British Tiger Moth.

Lavochkin La-11

On November 30, 1951, 16 La-11 fighter pilots of the 4th Fighter Aviation Regiment, Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) were escorting 9 Tu-2 PVA bombers to bomb the South Korean island of Taehwa-do (대화도/大和島), in the Pansong archipelago.

Leonardo Ferrulli

On 11 July 1941, with fellow pilots of his Gruppo, Ferrulli took part to the attack against the Maltese base of Mqabba.

Louis Helbig

Louis Helbig OSA (born in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian aerial photographer who takes photographs from a two-seater aircraft that he pilots.

Monarch Pass

An automated weather station (AWOS), provided by the Federal Aviation Administration, is located atop Monarch Pass, broadcasting at 124.175 mHz, providing pilots of small aircraft access to real-time weather conditions near the summit.

MS-06 Zaku II

Design by Kunio Okawara, the MS-06S Zaku II Commander Type (also known as the Zaku II Custom in some sources) looks very similar to the normal Zaku: so much so that the Earth Federation can generally only tell the difference from color schemes most pilots apply to their units and the increased performance of this version.

No. 16 Air Observation Post Flight RAAF

At the time it was established it had a strength of four pilots and was equipped with Taylorcraft Auster light aircraft.

Operation Horev

On the same day the Israeli Air Force shot down five RAF Spitfires on patrol in the area, killing two pilots and taking two more prisoner.

QFE

QFE, a Q code used by pilots and air traffic control that refers to atmospheric pressure and altimeter settings

Richard S. Heyser

Heyser, a native of Apalachicola, Florida, joined the United States Army Air Forces in 1944, after watching World War II pilots training at nearby Tyndall Field.

Rob Pearlstein

He has sold screenplays and television pilots to major studios and networks such as Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, and Lorne Michaels's Broadway Video Productions, and has written episodes for the NBC series Medium and the Fox series The Inside.

Robert Alexander Innes

In April 1941 he sailed on HMS Argus for Gibraltar, where he was transferred to HMS Ark Royal and was one of a group of Hurricane pilots who flew off Ark Royal for Malta.

Royal Cayman Islands Police Service

Staffed by professional pilots and engineers, as well as police officers, the Air Operations Unit provides aerial support through the operation of a Eurocopter EC135 police helicopter.

Sam Korkis

His credits include 'American Chopper', 'Jesse James Outlaw Garage',and 'Street Outlaws' for Discovery, 'The Bachelor' for ABC,' 'Couples Therapy' for VH1, 'Temptation Island for FOX, 'High School Reunion for The WB, 'KEPT for VH1, 'Ultimate Blackjack Tour for CBS, 'Wrestling Society X for MTV, and numerous other series and pilots.

San Luis Obispo County, California

On December 7, 1987, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashed in San Luis Obispo County after a passenger shot 5 people on board, including the pilots, then intentionally crashed the plane.

Severn Railway Bridge

In 1943 a flight of three Spitfires was being delivered by ATA pilots, including one woman, Ann Wood, from their Castle Bromwich factory to Whitchurch, Bristol.

Teichfuss Sparviero

Hanna Reitsch was also there and for a while the two pilots exchanged aircraft.

Whiteman Air Force Base

Pilots flew C-46 or C-47 transports and several types of cargo and personnel gliders, usually the Waco CG-4A.

Yamaha TRX850

Popular replacement tyres include Michelin Pilots or Pirelli Diablo Stradas.

Zygmunt Witymir Bieńkowski

He befriended some of the American pilots who gave him the affectionate nickname "Bing Crosby", a play on his family name.


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