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"Bake" – V. H. Baker, British pilot and aircraft designer [1] "The Balloon Buster" – Frank Luke, American World War I fighter ace "Bam" – C. S. Bamberger, British RAF World War II pilot "Barron" – John Worrall, British World War II RAF pilot "Beazle" – Hugh John Beazley, Battle of Britain pilot "Bee" – Roland Beamont, Battle of ...
The Hal Jordan version of the DC Comics character Green Lantern, introduced in 1959, was a US Air Force pilot and test pilot with the call sign "Highball". [6] The Marvel Comics character Corsair, space-faring father to X-Men characters Scott Summers and Alex Summers, got his alias from his call sign from his time as a US Air Force pilot.
"31-Knot Burke" – Arleigh Burke, U.S. Navy destroyer commander (for being unable to meet his habitual maximum speed during one operation due to limited recent maintenance) [1] "7, 8" – Yedi Sekiz Hasan Pasha, Ottoman Turkish Pasha who gained this nickname because of his signature consisting only of the Arabic letters seven (٧) and eight ...
United States Marine Corps pilots of World War II (1 C, 96 P) United States Naval Flight Officers (47 P) United States Navy pilots of World War II (1 C, 194 P) W.
Lea Gabrielle, American fighter pilot turned journalist, Correspondent for Fox News Channel Rajiv Gandhi , prime minister of India 1984–1989, son of India's first female prime minister Indira Gandhi
A naval aviator is a commissioned officer or warrant officer qualified as a crewed aircraft pilot in the United States Navy or United States Marine Corps. United States Coast Guard crewed aircraft pilots are officially designated as "Coast Guard aviators", although they complete the same undergraduate flight training as Navy and Marine Corps ...
Neil Armstrong – naval aviator (Korean War), X-15 pilot, astronaut Gemini 8 and Apollo 11, first man on the Moon Alan Bean – naval aviator and astronaut ( Apollo 12 and Skylab 3 ) David M. Brown – captain , flight surgeon and astronaut killed in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster ( STS-107 )
Nickname(s) Spig, Sparrow: Born 24 October 1895 Peoria, Illinois, U.S. Died: ... After World War I he was a test pilot for the Navy. [16] Sea duty