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Astronaut Duane Carey used the callsign "Spider" as an A-10 pilot; [10] When he transferred to F-16s, his call sign was changed to "Digger", because another pilot with that callsign had recently left the group, and the group wanted to continue its use. [10] US Navy fighter pilot Dale Snodgrass used the callsign of "Snort" and flew the F-14 Tomcat.
Oleksii Mes (20 October 1993 – 26 August 2024) was a Ukrainian fighter pilot with the call sign "Moonfish" of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He died when his F-16 crashed while repelling a Russian missile attack , according to the Ukrainian military.
Andrii Borysovych Pilshchykov (Ukrainian: Андрій Борисович Пільщиков; 3 February 1993 [3] [4] – 25 August 2023) was a Ukrainian fighter pilot with the call sign "Juice" (Джус) and a captain [5] in the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade [6] of the Ukrainian Air Force.
C. W. Lemoine is an American author, former military aviator and YouTuber who was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for his service in the reserves. His service spans a period of fifteen years in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy reserves, which includes a deployment to Iraq in 2009.
Dale Snodgrass (May 13, 1949 – July 24, 2021) [1] was a United States Navy aviator and air show performer who according to the Spokane Spokesman-Review was considered one of the greatest fighter pilots of all time.
Similarly, when the President is flown in a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter, the call sign is Marine One. When then-president George W. Bush, a former Air National Guard fighter pilot, was flown to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in a Navy S-3B Viking, it was the first use of the "Navy One" call sign.
Vadym Oleksandrovych Voroshylov (Ukrainian: Вадим Олександрович Ворошилов; callsign "Karaya"; 2 February 1994) is a fighter pilot of the Ukrainian Air Force, and a recipient of the Hero of Ukraine award.
This time the pilot was unable to evade the missiles. The first missile exploded immediately beneath the aircraft [9] striking it at 29,000 feet (8,800 m). [8] Hambleton, whose call sign was Bat 21 Bravo, [7]: 30 was the mission navigator and automatically set to be the first to eject in the event of an emergency. [10]