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The initial interviews were intended to result in a documentary titled, Old Bold Pilots, that was hoped would interest cable channels into funding a television series. The pilot episode included an interview with Robert Broughton's brother, Jack Broughton, a famous fighter ace and aviation author. [10] However, funding could not be secured.
Air Commodore Peter Malam "Pete" Brothers, CBE, DSO, DFC & Bar (30 September 1917 – 18 December 2008) was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and flying ace of World War II. Brothers was credited with 16 aerial victories, 10 of which he achieved during the Battle of Britain .
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 ...
Franzisket was born on 26 June 1917 in Düsseldorf, at the time in the Rhine Province, the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia within the German Empire. [2] He had a younger brother Max, born on 22 August 1918 in Düsseldorf, who was killed in action as a Hauptmann and commander of the I. Gruppe (1st group) of Zerstörergeschwader 1 (ZG 1—1st Destroyer Wing) on 19 July 1943 on the ...
National Aeronautic Association (NAA)'s Collier Trophy (with crews of Voyager and SpaceShipOne, 1986 and 2004) Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP)'s James H. Doolittle Award (with Scaled Composites team, 1987 and 2004) National Aviation Hall of Fame Inductee (1995) EAA's Freedom of Flight Award (1996) SETP's Ray E. Tenhoff Award (with ...
The American Fighter Aces Association logo. American Fighter Aces Association is a non-profit organization which recognizes the 1,450 combat American pilots (referred to as Aces) who have had five or more aerial victories in combat. [1] [2] The AFAA is located in Seattle's Museum of Flight. The exhibit houses documents, artifacts and histories ...
Ely Ortiz — who emigrated from the state of Oaxaca in the 1980s to San Diego — is on a mission: searching for the remains of people who died while attempting to cross the border through the ...
List of Tuskegee Airmen contains the names of notable Tuskegee Airmen, who were a group of primarily African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) and airmen who fought in World War II. The name also applies to the navigators, bombardiers, mechanics, instructors, crew chiefs, nurses, cooks and other support personnel. [2]