Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
WWII Fighter pilot. Shot down a German ME 262 jet figher and a German Arado AR 234 jet bomber. Flew with the 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group (1944/1945) to April 1945) 61 combat missions (167:40 combat hours in a P-47, 107:50 in a P-51)
Retired Air Force member, worked as an VIP Air Force Crew Member, served various times on Air Force One, Air Force Two, and First Lady Missions. Lead Usher for President George H W Bush Funeral. Traveled w/several Presidents, First Ladies and other distin
German World War II Luftwaffe 70-victory flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He held the position of Geschwaderkommodore of fighter wing Jagdgeschwader 51
NASA test pilot - X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, and is assigned to Armstrong's F/A-18, F-15, T-34 research and mission support aircraft and DC-8 airborne science aircraft
Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
(born 18 July 1921) was a highly decorated Leutnant der Reserve of the Brandenburgers in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was Rommel's personal and favorite combat driver
US Air Force Gen. & VP running mate of George Wallace in 1968/ credited designing & implementing effective, but controversial systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of WW2/headed Berlin airlift
WWII - Fighter Ace, 5 victories (between 23 May 1944 and 14 June 1944), plus a probable 3 damage claims. 49th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, 15th Air Force; European Theater
NASA pilot - X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, F-15, F-18, T-34 and King Air, as well as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
Jim was the USMC Pilot who nearly saved Gus Grissom's ill fated Liberty Bell 7, as it flooded with water and sank to the bottom of the sea following it's splashdown on 7/21/61, author - Short Tales By A Tall Pilot (2013)
Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
WWII: WWII Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) Pilot; one of only 6 'Attagirls' still alive. Joined the ATA in 1943, flew 100s of ferry missions in Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancaster Bombers
NASA research pilot, flies the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a modified Boeing 747SP with the world's largest airborne astronomical observatory, and the Gulfstream III (G-III) mission support aircraft
Col. Lukas, 'Tuskegee Airmen', graduated at what is now Tuskegee University, Alabama. First African American woman in the Air Force to be promoted to the rank of colonel.Wiki:
Flew the B-52 mothership for the X-1 flight. (The 'Mothership' is the aircraft from which the X-1 aircraft & Test Pilot is launched from) also commanded the t-34, t-37, t-33, b-57, t-38, f-104, kc-135, t-39, a-26, a-1, ec-137, c-5