Among the new measures: sponsoring more student pilots for commercial-aviation training and extending the fighter-pilot conversion program from three weeks to six months.
At Burning Man, perhaps in an ode to his fighter-pilot days, he can be seen in Mad Max industrial-style leather outfits with leather goggles.
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.
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.
The ex-fighter pilot who defied his captors in Vietnam and, often, his party's leaders in Washington.
The Abhijit Air Safety Foundation - formed in honour of fighter pilot Abhijit Gadgil who was killed in a crash three years ago - has been lobbying against the use of MiGs.
The aircraft maintains the air-to-air combat ability of the main F-15 fighter as the pilot can detect and fire at other aircraft.
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.
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.
The eighth grade dropout, ex- boxer and World War II fighter pilot trainer started his career in Las Vegas with a land purchase in 1962.
The solution, which is based on physiological monitoring devices installed in some fighter pilot helmets, would instead serve consumers -- cyclists, specifically.
When Mary Cummings, a former US Navy pilot, stopped flying F-18 fighter jets in 1997, there were no video links between cockpits and command centres, and even radio contact was patchy at times.
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.
Bombing resumed after the pilot of the US F-117 Stealth fighter was rescued, and new explosions were reported on Sunday in Belgrade and south west of the capital.
So again, Fallon is - he's an old, crusty admiral, former fighter pilot in Vietnam, and it's a personality thing beyond, you know, beyond what he said in the article.
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.
EP-3 surveillance aircraft with a Chinese fighter jet in April last year which caused the death of the Chinese pilot.
"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.
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