The French had a nominally Mach 2 Dassault Mirage IIIV fitted with no less than 8 lift engines that flew ( and crashed ), but did not have enough space for fuel or payload for combat missions.

In Korea, Williams flew 39 combat missions before being being withdrawn from flight status in June 1953 after a hospitalization for pneumonia.

Grissom flew 100 combat missions during his time in the war, serving as a wingman protecting the lead fighters.

He eventually managed a transfer to VMF-155 as an F4U Corsair fighter pilot, and flew 59 combat missions in the South Pacific.

He flew his Panther in 63 combat missions during the Korean War, gaining the dubious nickname " magnet ass " from his apparent ability to attract enemy flak.

Glenn flew a second Korean combat tour on an interservice exchange program with the United States Air Force.

After its withdrawal from France in 1958, this aircraft was eventually assigned to the 8th Tactical Bomb Squadron at Phan Rang Air Base South Vietnam and flew combat bombing missions into the late 1960s.

The Night Witches, a women-only combat regiment of the Soviet Air Forces, flew harassment bombing and precision bombing missions from 1942 to the end of the World War II.

During four months of combat in the Korean War, the group flew 335 sorties with only fourteen aborts and dropped over 6, 500 tons of bombs.

During this campaign he flew over two dozen combat missions over Tunisia, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, and Panteileria to obtain firsthand information.

The 509th Bomb Wing first flew the B-2 in combat against Serbia in March 1999.

During these operations, the aircraft flew round-trip from Missouri, logging combat missions in excess of 40 hours-the longest on record.

The first combat strike by the F-100D was flown on June 9, 1964 when eight F-100Ds of the 615th Tactical Fighter Squadron flew strikes against targets in the Plaines des Jarres in Laos.

On 1 April 1965, F-100Ds flew MiG combat air patrol for a strike force of F-105s that were hitting the Thanh Hoa Bridge in North Vietnam.

By the end of the conflict in June 1999, B-1Bs from Ellsworth flew 100 combat missions and dropped over 1, 260 tons of Mk-82 general-purpose bombs.

Their combat mission effectiveness was greater than 95 % and they flew 5 % of the total strike aircraft missions.

The 19th BG flew its next combat mission on 4 January against Japanese shipping off Davao, utilizing Samarinda Airfield, Borneo, as a staging base, but on 11 January, when the first aircraft of the 7th Bomb Group arrived, FEAF conducted its operations solely for the defense of the Netherlands East Indies.

He flew 52 combat missions, for which he was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters.

Late in the war, Messerschmitt also worked on a heavy Amerikabomber design, the Me 264, which flew in prototype form but was too late to see combat.

While the squadron waited for delivery of the scarce Lockheed P-38s, Bong and other 9th FS pilots flew missions with the 39th FS, 35th Fighter Group, based in Port Moresby, New Guinea, to gain combat experience.

Bong's Medal of Honor citation states that he flew combat missions despite his status as an " instructor ", which was one of his duties as standardization officer for V Fighter Command.

They flew their first combat mission the same afternoon.

Rickenbacker flew a total of 300 combat hours, reportedly more than any other US pilot in the war.

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.

He flew some 185 combat sorties during the course of World War II and rose quickly through the ranks, finishing the war as a captain and squadron commander.

Subsequently, B-52G bombers flew more than 200 17-hour bombing missions over 44 days and dropped more than of bombs on Iraqi forces in Iraq and Kuwait.

U-2 pilots flew espionage missions using an aircraft that could reach altitudes above 70, 000 feet, making it invulnerable to Soviet anti-aircraft weapons of the time.

NASA announced the selection of seven of these – known as the Mercury Seven – as astronauts on 9 April 1959, though only six of the seven flew Mercury missions, after Slayton was grounded due to a heart condition.

During the Korean War, B-29 Superfortresses flew bombing missions from Kadena AFB over Korea and China.

SAC bomber, tanker and reconnaissance aircraft flew numerous conventional bombing, aerial refueling and reconnaissance missions over and near Iraq from RAF Fairford and other bases in Great Britain, Turkey, Akrotiri, Cyprus, Diego Garcia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

In 1983 and 1984, Challenger flew on 85 % of all Space Shuttle missions.

Following the Columbia accident, NASA flew the STS-125 mission using Atlantis, combining the planned fourth and fifth servicing missions into one final visit to Hubble.

She flew on five Space Shuttle program missions ( three on Columbia and one each on Endeavour and Discovery ) and logged 1512 hours in space.

During World War II, Altman flew more than 50 bombing missions as a crewman on a B-24 Liberator with the 307th Bomb Group in Borneo and the Dutch East Indies.

These aircraft flew missions until January 1970, flown by Portuguese ex-military pilots.

Wolstenholme started his career as a journalist with a newspaper in Manchester, before joining the RAF, and from 1941 onwards flew 100 missions over Germany and won the DFC and bar as a bomber pilot.

He joined the Navy and entered flight school in 1965 and in 1968 he flew more than 70 strike missions over North Vietnam and Laos in an A-4 Skyhawk off the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid ( CV-11 ).

Heller flew 60 bombing missions from May to October in 1944.

Glenn flew patrol missions in North China with the VMF-218 squadron, until it was transferred to Guam.

One pigeon named " The Mocker ", flew 52 missions before he was wounded.

Twelve O ' Clock High is a 1949 American war film about aircrews in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force who flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II.

The 22d ARW was assigned to the new Air Mobility Command, and from the end of 1992 to 1994, the wing flew humanitarian airlift missions to Somalia.