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"Hamish" – T. G. Mahaddie, Bomber Command pilot, Pathfinder Force "Hap" – Henry H. Arnold, American Army Air Forces commanding general "Hasse" – Hans Wind, Finnish fighter ace "Hilly" – Mark Henry Brown, Battle of Britain pilot "Hipshot" – Danny Hamilton, US Air Force Reserve "Hoagy" – Peter Carmichael, British fighter pilot
"Black Swallow of Death" – Eugene Bullard, African-American World War I fighter pilot "Blackie" – David John Williams , Canadian fighter ace "Blinker" – W. R. Hall , British admiral, head of Room 40 during the First World War [ 20 ]
US Navy fighter pilot Dale Snodgrass used the callsign of "Snort" and flew the F-14 Tomcat. He is known for a photo of him in his F-14 doing a knife edge pass off the side of the USS America . [ 11 ] [ 12 ] After his retirement from the Navy he flew many types of warbirds at airshows across the world, up until his death in mid-2021.
Heather Penney – Former Air Force major and F-16 fighter pilot whose mission (along with three other pilots, including USAF Major Daniel Caine, Captain Brandon Rasmussen and Lieutenant General Marc Sasseville) on 9/11 was to find United Flight 93 and destroy it however they could, including ramming the aircraft. Oscar Francis Perdomo – "Ace ...
Glamour boys – derogatory term for fighter pilots. [29] [33] God botherer – a chaplain in the RAF, or padre. [8] (To) Go pear–shaped – something that has gone wrong, Refers to the look of an aircraft that has crashed nose first. [34] Gravel crusher – an NCO who was employed to drill the airmen. [35]
Nickname Note 301st Fighter Squadron: Tyndall AFB: F-22 "Red Tail Angels" 44th Fighter Group (AFRC) 302d Fighter Squadron: Elmendorf AFB: F-22 "Sun Devils"
First aerial victory by a jet fighter and first jet ace in aviation history. [25] Robin Olds United States: August 1943–1945 1943-1973 13 P-38 Lightning and P-51 Mustang: Triple ace - Olds was the only pilot to "make ace" in both the P-38 (five victories) and the P-51 (eight victories) in the war.
In the same issue, the pilots Slip-Stream and Ghostrider take another flight over Benzheen in a Stealth Fighter. Ghostrider and later, Hawk both refer to Slip-Stream as Dogfight. [115] Dogfight also appears in the America's Elite G.I. Joe series from Devil's Due. He is part of a small group of Joe pilots sent to assist European military forces.