But in Italy, I learned I was just a fighter pilot, not a commercial aviation pilot.
Taylor left Washington University (without a degree) to join the Navy, and served as a fighter pilot during World War II.
He had an unremarkable academic career, graduated in 1968 and joined the Texas Air National Guard, where he was trained as a fighter pilot.
This has not stopped speculation that it will be Chen Long, a fighter pilot who has been to Russia to train with the cosmonaut programme.
He married his high school sweetheart, Peggy Jean Proctor, and spent nearly two decades in the Air Force, including much-decorated service as a fighter pilot in Vietnam.
They confirm that as a fighter pilot he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, silver and bronze stars, a purple heart and other medals.
To cope with air pollution in China, artist Matt Hope produced a "Breathing Bike, " that consists of a fighter pilot's breathing mask attached to a pedal-powered air filtration system.
When war broke out in 1939, Freeborn temporarily gave up his fledgling career to train as a fighter pilot, only to almost lose his life to Asian flu and haemophilia.
His new book Bury Us Upside Down covers the frustrations, the folly, the family tragedies and the human cost of the Vietnam War, during which he flew 247 combat missions as a fighter pilot.
Jones, 64, has been CEO of Rockwell Collins since June 2001, and has worked for the company for almost 34 years, having joined the company in 1979 after serving as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force.
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Spokesmen for both Mr Bush and his father, former President Bush, deny that the governor received any preferential treatment, and Mr Bush has long insisted that it was his desire to be a fighter pilot which led him to apply to the National Guard instead of opting for infantry duty in Vietnam.
Given the relatively low costs of drones -- already far cheaper than the costs of a fighter jet and of training a fighter jet pilot -- armed drones will play a key role in future conflicts.
It's also the place where Andy Green, a British fighter pilot, broke the land speed record in 1997 by driving a jet-powered car through the sound barrier to 763 mph.
Petersen is a veteran fighter pilot who served 38 years in the United States Marine Corps.
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Gration, a former fighter pilot, served as assistant deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for international affairs.
The 44 Squadron crew was shot down by a German fighter pilot over the Baltic Sea 70 years ago.
The model was commissioned by the United States Air Force as a memorial to Bill Dunn, a US fighter pilot.
But voters appeared to believe Mr Fletcher, a former fighter pilot, was more likely to bring change to Frankfort, the state's capital.
In a statement, his family praised him as a "reluctant American hero" who had "served his nation proudly, as a navy fighter pilot, test pilot, and astronaut".
Goldstein is a former fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force.
Still, Fallon brings to the table a great deal of combat experience: A trained fighter pilot, he served in Vietnam and in the 1990 Gulf War.
In South Carolina author Pat Conroy's semi-autobiographical novel "The Great Santini, " a fighter-pilot father squishes turtles during a late-night drive when he thinks his wife and kids are asleep.
"We compete in the land of the giants, " says Jones, 56, a onetime fighter pilot for the Air Force who later spent 15 years coaxing Congress and the Pentagon to fund big-ticket Rockwell International programs like the B-1 bomber.
In the book, I profile a US Air Force fighter pilot Cesar Rodriguez.
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Lamborghini isn't exaggerating when it likens the interior to a jet fighter's cockpit -- the pilot gets a heads-up display as a matter of course, and has to climb over the car body just to crawl inside.
Formhals told him the books came from the estate of the late Neville Duke, a famous World War II fighter pilot who lived in Milford on Sea.
Mr Formhals told him the books came from the estate of the late Neville Duke, a famous World War II fighter pilot who lived in Milford on Sea.
This particular box would be installed in a fighter jet, permitting the pilot to upload video at a rate of 2MB per second, presumably fed from another plane, satellite or nearby ground troops.
The daughter of a teacher and a U.S. Navy fighter pilot who was killed during the Vietnam War, Ms. Ashby was born in Pensacola, Fla.
Mr. Appleton was a qualified stunt pilot whose many planes included a bright red Hawker Hunter fighter jet he bought from the Republic of Singapore Air Force in the 1990s.
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