The squadron became one of the premier RFC / RAF fighter units in 1918 and by the end of the war Douglas had been awarded a Military Cross and a Distinguished Flying Cross.

The announcement indicated that ATC would inactivate its 38th Flying Training Wing, which conducted undergraduate pilot training at Moody, and the base would become host to a wing of F-4E Phantom II tactical fighter aircraft.

In service it was used as an escort fighter, following B-17 Flying Fortress raids deep into German-held Europe where it was able to hold its own with the much lighter German fighters.

He was one of eight journalists selected by the United States Army Air Forces to fly bombing raids over Germany in a B-17 Flying Fortress part of group called the Writing 69th, and during a mission fired a machine gun at a German fighter.

He flew sixty-eight combat missions as a fighter pilot for the United States Army Air Corps in World War II and received the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart, and the Air Medal.

* Flying the Lightning: A test pilots view of the RAF's first supersonic fighter

A number of feature films have referenced the AVG directly or indirectly, the most famous being Flying Tigers, a 1942 black-and-white film from Republic, starring John Wayne and John Carroll as fighter pilots.

During 1942 and 1943, the lack of a usable escort fighter for the USAAF in the European Theatre of Operations led to experiments in dramatically increasing the armament of a standard B-17F Flying Fortress, and later a B-24D Liberator to each have a total of some 14-16 Browning AN / M2. 50 cal machine guns as the YB-40 and XB-41 " heavy fighters " respectively, each meant to accompany regular heavy bomber formations over occupied Europe on strategic bomber raids for long-range escort duties.

Biggles first appears as a teenaged " scout " ( fighter ) pilot in the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ) during World War I.

Captain George McElroy, a leading ace fighter pilot of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force ( KIA in 1918 ) is buried in Laventie CWGC cemetery.

The Commonwealth pilots were withdrawn to Egypt and refitted with Curtiss Tomahawks off the same assembly line building fighter aircraft for the AVG Flying Tigers being recruited for service in China.

* Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe in Gold for fighter pilots ( 14 November 1942 )

The " Flying Tigers " of 14 AF ( who adopted the " Flying Tigers " designation from the AVG ) conducted highly effective fighter and bomber operations along a wide front that stretched from the bend of the Yellow River and Tsinan in the north to Indochina in the south, from Chengtu and the Salween River in the west to both East and South China Seas and the island of Formosa in the east.

* Ed McGaa ( Eagle Man ): author, attorney and a U. S. Marine Corps F-4B Phantom fighter pilot in Vietnam, flew 110 combat missions, received ; 8 Air Medals, 2 Crosses of Gallantry and a recommendation for the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Their only son, Arthur Rhys Davids, was a Royal Flying Corps 25-victory fighter ace who was killed in World War I.

A Royal Flying Corps fighter pilot during the First World War, and close associate of Squadron Leader Tudhope during the latter's exploration and survey of Canada, Dodds had been seconded by DND to the Department of Transport as Inspector of Airways and Aerodromes for the country.

On 7 September 1937 No. 2 Flying Training School relocated to RAF Brize Norton, and Digby was handed to No 12 Group Fighter Command as an operational fighter station intended to provide fighter cover for the cities of Lincoln, Nottingham and Leicester.

In 1967 Griggs entered the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland and upon completion of test pilot training was assigned to the Flying Qualities and Performance Branch, Flight Test Division, where he flew various test projects on fighter and attack-type aircraft.

* Late July – In the first use of airborne radar for interception of an enemy aircraft, a Flying Officer Ashfield flying a British Bristol Blenheim IF night fighter destroys a German Dornier Do 17 bomber.

* February 26 – German night fighter ace Ludwig Becker is shot down and killed over the North Sea during a daytime mission against U. S. Army Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bombers, the third of three top German night aces to die during the month.

** Flying a Yakovlev Yak-1, Soviet Air Forces fighter ace Lydia Litvak is shot down and killed in a dogfight with Messerschmitt Bf 109s near Orel.

* August 9 – Flying a Dornier Do 215B-5 night fighter, Luftwaffe Oberleutnant Ludwig Becker achieves Germanys first aerial victory employing airborne radar, using a Lichtenstein radar to detect and close with a British Vickers Wellington bomber participating in a raid on Hamburg, Germany, before shooting down the Wellington.

The airstrip was discovered by American planes on 3 December, and the first airstrikes were delivered by B-17 Flying Fortress bombers on 9 December.

The air base was built to train World War II pilots to fly the P-38 Lightning and B-17 Flying Fortress, two planes that were essential to the war effort.

: Flying planes can be dangerous.

* July 6 – The largest light airplane meet outside the United States brings 750 small planes to the Popular Flying Associations annual meeting in Leicester, England.

For over 50 years, the airport has been home to the East Hill Flying Club which offers lessons and the use of seven small planes to its members.

American bomber planes such as the B-17 Flying Fortress had been built before the war as the only adequate long-range bombers in the world, designed to patrol the long American coastlines.

His all-leather looks — dubbed the " Ultra " look — were applied to uniforms and the fleet, including Braniff's new Boeing 727-200s ( and the " Flying Colors " planes as well ).

* Flying an Aeronca C-3, Helen Richey sets an international womens speed record for light planes, averaging 73 mph ( 117. 5 km / hr ) during a 51-minute flight covering 100 km ( 62. 1 miles ).

Each summer various planes from the Flying Heritage Collection are flown to keep them operational and exercised on a regular basis.

The airfield is home to quite a few ultralights and the Flying Club run a big open weekend each June where many planes fly in to attend it.

Flying the obsolete Douglas TBD Devastators, Commander John C. Waldron's 15 planes were all shot down during their unescorted torpedo attack on Japanese aircraft carriers.

On the morning of September 10, 1943, during World War II, American planes launched their bombs from B-17 Flying Fortress planes over a crowded town on market day causing thousands of deaths.

They include: RC Airplane Combat, 3D Flying, and are preferred in places where the flyers would normally not risk a more expensive plane and yet want the same flying characteristics of balsa planes.

These are found by destroying a red formation of enemy planes or a red Flying Pancake that appears in later levels.

Trained as a pilot, Calder flew Typhoon planes throughout World War II, completing 120 missions over Europe and receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross for his troubles.

Gust fronts create low-level wind shear which can be hazardous to planes when they takeoff or land .< ref > Flying insects, a subset of arthropods, are swept along by the prevailing winds.

Several of the reproduction planes built for the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines used the wing warping control systems of the original aircraft – with mixed results.

Float planes & Flying Boats

Flying above the clouds, the player fights hordes of enemy planes.

* Bearenger, a black male anthropomorphic bear who rides a small flying rocket with a shark face similar to the Flying Tigers fighter planes from World War II.

He purchased several private aircraft to help him tend to his diverse interests throughout the state, and in 1973, created Wilkinson Flying Service to keep the planes busy when he wasn't using them.

Whitney became a major investor in two of Astaire's Broadway stage vehicles, The Band Wagon ( 1930 ) and Gay Divorce ( 1932 ), and played a crucial role in securing for Astaire a contract with RKO Pictures in 1933, using his contacts with Merion C. Cooper-both men were board members of Pan American Airways whose planes were prominently featured in Astaire's breakthrough film with Ginger Rogers: Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ).

* George Augustus Vaughn, Jr .-known as " Ace ," a WWI Flying Ace: officially credited with downing 12 enemy planes and one balloon