For the film, see Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag. For the BBC documentary, see Fighter Pilot (TV series).
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Ilmari Juutilainen, a Finnish WWII fighter pilot with Brewster BW-364 "Orange 4" on 26 June 1942 during the Continuation War.[1]
A fighter pilot or combat pilot is a military aviator trained to engage in air-to-air combat, air-to-ground combat and sometimes electronic warfare while in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft. Fighter pilots undergo specialized training in aerial warfare and dogfighting (close range aerial combat). A fighter pilot with at least five air-to-air kills becomes known as an ace.
A fighterpilot or combat pilot is a military aviator trained to engage in air-to-air combat, air-to-ground combat and sometimes electronic warfare while...
such German ace pilots as Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke, and especially Manfred von Richthofen, the most victorious fighterpilot of the First World...
April 1922 – 20 September 1993) was a German fighterpilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew...
its pilots, the tactical soundness of its doctrine for deploying its fighters, and the numbers and performance of those fighters. Many modern fighter aircraft...
other considerations. As such most TIE fighterpilots have a life expectancy of less than a year. TIE fighterpilots wear self-contained flight suits with...
The Red FighterPilot (German: Der rote Kampfflieger) is a book written by Manfred von Richthofen, a famous German fighterpilot who is considered the...
took his call sign, Karaya, in honor of the WW2 fighterpilot Erich Hartmann, the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare.[unreliable...
Abhinandan Varthaman VrC (born 21 June 1983) is an Indian Air Force fighterpilot who was held captive in Pakistan for 60 hours after his MiG-21 Bison...
also be readily adapted into a bomber. In 1926, the secret Lipetsk fighter-pilot school began training Germans in the Soviet Union. Erhard Milch organised...
remaining behind the pilot; even with speed, a fighter is open to attack from the rear. Basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) are actions that a fighter aircraft makes...
Борисович Пільщиков; 3 February 1993 – 25 August 2023) was a Ukrainian fighterpilot with the call sign "Juice" (Джус) and a captain in the 40th Tactical...
exchange pilots and served as instructors in VF-121. A British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, declared in a 2009 headline, "American Top Gun FighterPilot Academy...
Marium Mukhtiar (May 19, 1992 – November 24, 2015) was a Pakistani fighterpilot. She died flying a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) FT-7PG aircraft that crashed...
States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was severely damaged by German fighters. Luftwaffe pilot Franz Stigler had the opportunity to shoot down the crippled bomber...
The term foo fighters was used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe various unidentified flying objects or mysterious aerial phenomena...
November 14, 1951) is an American comedian who released one album, FighterPilot, on IRS Records in 1983. He continues to perform stand-up comedy today...
1918), known in English as Baron von Richthofen or the Red Baron, was a fighterpilot with the German Air Force during World War I. He is considered the ace-of-aces...
Navy's Zero fighter aces who fought the Battle of Solomon Islands in October 1942 – June 1943. He is best known as the only escort fighterpilot of the Yamamoto...
achieved this whilst piloting a Sopwith Camel fighter. Billy Bishop, the top scoring Canadian and British Empire ace of the war, was piloting an S.E.5 on 19...
put under house arrest following the so-called FighterPilots' Revolt, in which senior fighterpilots confronted Göring about the conduct of the air war...
female jet fighterpilot for the Israeli Air Force. Roni Zuckerman was born and raised on kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot ("the Ghetto Fighters' kibbutz"),...
and was the first female carrier-based fighterpilot in the U.S. Navy. She was also the first female fighterpilot in the U.S. military to die in a crash...
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