The extent of Allied quantitative and qualitative superiority by this point in the war was demonstrated during Battle of the Philippine Sea, a lopsided Allied victory where Japanese fliers were downed in such numbers and with such ease that American fighter pilots likened it to a great turkey shoot.

* 1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France.

Nehru also asked that these aircraft be manned by American pilots until Indian airmen were trained to replace them.

At 08: 37, air traffic controllers asked the pilots of Flight 175 whether they could see American Airlines Flight 11.

* June 27 – 19-year-old American socialite Aida de Acosta becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, “ No. 9 ”, from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France.

Contributing factors include the following: First, the first officer's predisposition to overreact to wake turbulence ; second, the training provided by American Airlines that could have encouraged pilots to make large flight control inputs ; third, the first officer likely did not understand an airplane's response to large rudder inputs at high airspeeds or the mechanism by which the rudder rolls a transport-category airplane ; finally, light rudder pedal forces and small pedal displacement of the A300-600 rudder pedal system increased the airplane's susceptibility to a rudder misuse.

Most American Airlines pilots believed that the tail fin could withstand any rudder movement at maneuvering speed.

* Transit ( 2006 film ), a 2006 film about Russian and American pilots in World War II

Presented to Fred Wells as ' project p-57 ' ( this was the plane Wells had taught American pilots to fly during WWII ), Mills stated, " This one will fly.

This ironic situation is epitomized in the single appearance of German personnel in the novel, who act as pilots employed by the squadron's Mess Officer, Milo Minderbinder, to bomb the American encampment on Pianosa.

At the outset of the Football War, El Salvador enlisted the assistance of several American pilots with P-51 and F4U experience.

Hmong soldiers served against the NVA and the Pathet Lao, helping block the Hanoi's Ho Chi Minh trail inside Laos and rescuing downed American pilots.

Glenn was a combat aviator in the Marine Corps and one of the Mercury Seven, who were the elite U. S. military test pilots selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) to operate the experimental Mercury spacecraft and become the first American astronauts.

Category: American test pilots

* Lafayette Escadrille, a World War I squadron of the French Air Service composed largely of American pilots

* Lafayette Flying Corps, a name given to American volunteer pilots who flew for the French in World War I

The staff at Variety magazine wrote, " Combining dramatic content of four Eugene O ' Neill one-act plays, John Ford pilots adventures of a tramp steamer from the West Indies to an American port, and then across the Atlantic with cargo of high explosives.

It claimed that the pilots did not see the American flags.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

During World War II, DeSoto County operated the Carlstrom Field Air Base, which provided training for both American and British pilots.

Category: American World War II pilots

American pilots were frequently already in bad shape by the time they were captured, injured either during their ejection or in landing on the ground.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

American democratic thought, pointed up the relation between the Protestant movement in this country and the development of a social religion, which he called the American Democratic Faith.

She was wearing her dark hair in two, thick braids to attain an `` American Girl '' effect she thought was appropriate to Halloween.

His first thought is about the question itself: Is there a question here for American foreign policy, and, if so, what is it??

For all concerned with social-welfare legislation, the significance of this radical and revolutionary change in the thought and habits of the vast majority of the American people is clear, profound and far-reaching.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

On the matter of American annexation, Carnegie had always thought it is an unwise gesture for the United States.

The Empire State Building is generally thought of as an American cultural icon.

Others, such as Claude Lévi-Strauss ( who was influenced both by American cultural anthropology and by French Durkheimian sociology ), have argued that apparently similar patterns of development reflect fundamental similarities in the structure of human thought ( see structuralism ).

" According to West and Sanders, when talking about conspiracies in the Vietnam era, Pipes includes within the fringe element anyone who entertains the thought that conspiracies played a role in the major political scandals and assassinations that rocked American politics in the Vietnam era.

* Recent conservative political thought: American perspectives / Russell G.

Beaux and her art friends defended the old order, and many thought ( and hoped ) the new movement to be a passing fad, but it turned out to be a revolutionary turn in American art.

* John R. Hale, et al., " Questioning the Delphic Oracle: When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought ", in Scientific American August 2003

Some South American plants formerly thought of as Daturas are now treated as belonging to the distinct genus Brugmansia ( Brugmansia differs from Datura in that it is woody, making shrubs or small trees, and in that it has pendulous flowers, rather than erect ones ).

Porter is generally thought to be the American filmmaker who experimented with film editing.

Dyer Lum, Ezra & Angela Haywood represent this school of thought ; Jo Labadie, who wrote for Tucker ’ s Liberty, made himself a link between the American “ plumb-line ” anarchists, the “ philosophical ” individualists, & the syndicalist or communist branch of the movement ; his influence reached the Mackay Society through his son, Laurance.

The New Englanders established Puritanism — for better or worse — as one of the continuous factors in American life and thought.

John never wanted to be in a position where he was opposing the United States ( and never thought he would be ), and in fact he never opposed any American military.

He was one of the best-known American Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter.

As early as the period of the American Revolution, many white members of American society thought that African Americans could not succeed in living in ‘ their ’ society as free people.