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"Sandy" – Brian Lane, RAF Battle of Britain pilot, Squadron Leader and fighter ace "Sexy Rexy" – Ola Mildred Rexroat, Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) aviator [22] "Shorty" – Vernon Keogh, American who flew with the RAF during the Battle of Britain (named for diminutive height) [23]
(from "butcher") Arthur T. Harris, British air force general (affectionately given by his men) Edward O'Hare, U.S. World War II fighter ace and Medal of Honor recipient; Crosbie E. Saint, U.S. Army general "Butcher" – Arthur T. Harris, British air chief marshal during the Second World War [27]
Nancy Bird Walton (1915–2009), pioneering Australian aviator who founded the Australian Women Pilots' Association; Zheng Wang (Julie Wang, Wang Zheng, 王争) (born 1972), first Asian woman to circumnavigate Earth in an airplane, first Chinese person to fly solo around-the-world; first Chinese female pilot to fly around the world [74] [75] [76]
In September 2022 she was assigned to the "Gladiators" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106, based at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia. [9] [1] She flies the F/A-18E and the F/A-18F Super Hornet. [6] Her induction and training as a new Blue Angels pilot was captured in the 2024 film The Blue Angels. [10] [11]
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.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Heather "Lucky" Penney, an F-16 pilot at the time, was ordered into the air to intercept United Airlines Flight 93. Her father was a flight captain for United at the time.
Thereafter she began formal combat training in the McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle, becoming the service's first female fighter pilot. [4] [6] 1st Lt. Flynn sitting in the cockpit of a F-15E during her time (1993–94) with the 555th Fighter Squadron. Leavitt's F-15 flight hours have included 300 combat hours, mostly over Afghanistan and Iraq.
Here are 125 cute, sexy, and romantic nicknames for your boyfriend, fiancé, baby daddy, FWB—basically anyone you're getting romantic with.