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.

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Tydel Wilson, a manager at the Palm Greens Cafe, said the fighter will visit the restaurant twice a day during his peak training periods.

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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.

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In fighter pilot training school he had to practice twice as hard as others to master the same maneuvers.

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His most recent acquisition is an AT-6 training plane used by the Tuskegee airmen, the black pilots who flew as the 332nd Fighter Group in World War II.

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The 31-year-old Nottingham fighter is putting the finishing touches to his preparations having recently arrived in Connecticut from his two-week training camp in Canada.

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