His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).

The pilot plant was a circular lagoon 81 ft in diam at the surface and 65 ft in diam at the bottom, 4 ft below the surface, with a volume of 121,000 Aj.

The pilot lagoon was located as shown in Figure 1 to serve the area just south of the existing housing area.

The pilot lagoon was designed to handle the wastes from 314 persons with a 4-day aeration period.

The pilot plant was equipped with a 3-hp. turbine aerator ( Figure 2 ).

Wires whined as a cold November blast rocked the silver wings, but the engine roar was reassuring to the pilot bundled in the open cockpit.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers who was trained as a pilot, assumed control of the flight.

He had wanted to be a commercial pilot for the Saudi national airline but was rejected when he applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah in 1999.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

In at least one case, a plane was hijacked by the official pilot.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

American 11 was hijacked 15 minutes after the flight departed by Omari and four other hijackers, which allowed trained pilot Mohamed Atta to crash the Boeing 767 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of an attack that killed thousands of people.

It was also quickly determined that Mohamed Atta was the pilot among the hijackers.

* portal. telegraph. co. uk ( Article which reports that the Saudi Arabian Airlines pilot named Omari was not involved with the terrorist attacks )

The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

Jean Navarre was the pilot who was tasked to make the flight, but he died on 10 July 1919 when he crashed near Villacoublay while training for the flight.

Commander Kaagh, a surviving pilot from the tenth Sontaran battle fleet, had slightly different armour due to being from the special forces.

** The U. S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath ( the pilot ) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe ( the bombardier / navigator ) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91, 450 feet ( 27, 874 m ), with payload, in an A-5 Vigilante twinjet bomber carrying a 1, 000 kilogram payload, and they better the previous world record by over four miles ( 6 km ).

Commander William S. Donaldson III ( 1944 – August 22, 2001 ) was a United States Navy pilot with more than 24 years of experience in nearly all phases of naval aviation and Vietnam War veteran.

Commander Data in the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, this year the United Nations resolved that " No person shall be made to answer for the crimes of their race or forebears.

Upon hearing a fatigued pilot pleading for help, the private attempts to rescue the exhausted officer, Commander Schultz ( Reginald Gardiner ).

Commander Data was going to pilot at the beginning of the episode.

After a four year tour as a fighter pilot assigned to a jet attack squadron in Jacksonville, Florida, he attended the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School, where his instructor was his future Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad.

In Commander Nigel Ward's book, Sea Harrier Over the Falklands, Prince Andrew was described as " an excellent pilot and a very promising officer ".

In 2369, when Commander ( later Captain ) Benjamin Sisko was assigned command of DS9, one of his instructions was to prepare Bajor for full membership into the Federation ( pilot episode: " Emissary ").

* Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson DSO * DFC * RAF, CO of 617 Squadron and pilot of " George "

William Cameron " Willie " McCool ( September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003 ) was a United States Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.

The Avenger pilot, Lieutenant Commander Phillips, called repeatedly to O ' Hare but received no reply.

Commander Sisko, feeling that Quark's presence would encourage commercial tourism to boost the station's economy, exhorted Quark to stay, using his nephew, Nog as a bargaining chip, in the Deep Space Nine pilot episode, " Emissary ".

In " Emissary ", the pilot episode, the United Federation of Planets dispatches Commander Benjamin Sisko to take command of the space station Deep Space Nine.

Navy pilot Lieutenant Commander Johnny Morrison ( Alan Ladd ) is put on the inactive list.

The NTSB determined that the pilot had only 52 hours in the Aero Commander 690 and only 1. 6 hours at night.

The car was driven by Royal Air Force fighter pilot Wing Commander Andy Green in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, United States.

Ensign ( later Lieutenant Commander ) George Henry Gay Jr. ( March 8, 1917 – October 21, 1994 ) was a TBD Devastator pilot in United States Navy Torpedo Squadron 8 operating from the USS Hornet ( CV-8 ) in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.

Charles Rumney Samson | Commander C Samson of the RNAS takes off from HMS Hibernia ( 1905 ) | HMS Hibernia in his modified Short Brothers | Shorts S. 38 “ hydro-aeroplane ” to be the first pilot to take off from a ship underway at sea.

The final two syndicated Underdog half-hours feature one-shot cartoons originally part of an unsold pilot for a projected 1966 series, The Champion ( Cauliflower Cabbie and Gene Hattree ), with Commander McBragg appearing in show # 61 and Go Go Gophers in show # 62.

Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, AC, Hero of the Soviet Union, ( born January 13, 1949 ) is a former Indian Air Force test pilot who flew aboard Soyuz T-11 as part of the Intercosmos program.

* Commander Rupert Brabner ( 1911 – 1945 ), Conservative MP for Hythe 1939 – 1945 and WWII pilot with the Royal Navy, was born in Loughton

* 1988-1989 Patrick M. Walsh ; retired United States Navy Admiral, Former Commander, U. S. Pacific Fleet, Vice Chief of Naval Operations and Blue Angels pilot

* Everett Alvarez Jr., Navy Commander, first American pilot held as a POW in North Vietnam.

Commander Edward Straker ( portrayed by Ed Bishop ) is a former American Air Force pilot and astronaut originally from Boston, Massachusetts who organized SHADO following a series of UFO attacks in 1970.