Sandy Dahl, who became one of the tragic faces of 9/11 after her husband was killed while piloting United Flight 93, died Friday.
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Widow of 9/11 pilot dies, friend says
The Royal Navy pilots learning to fly state-of-the-art US fighter jets
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‘Top Gun’ training for UK pilots
Royal Navy pilot Lieutenant Daniel Latham, likely to be one of the first British pilots to fly a Joint Strike Fighter, tells the BBC what it is like flying an F-18 Super Hornet for the US Navy.
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VIDEO: Royal Navy pilot’s ‘Top Gun’ training
As German Gen. Erwin Rommel chased British forces across the North African desert, a stray Royal Air Force fighter crashed in the blistering sands of the Egyptian Sahara on June 28, 1942. The pilot was never heard from again. The damaged Kittyhawk P-40 — a couple of hundred miles from civilization — was presumed lost forever.
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‘Incredible’ WWII plane found
A protest by a section of Air India pilots enters its second day with more international flights cancelled from Delhi and Mumbai, reports say.
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Air India cancels further flights
The Royal Flying Corps came into being 100 years ago and played a key role in World War I. But who were its heroic pilots, and why was the corps so special?
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The pilot of a coastguard helicopter in Shetland is suspended after dropping in on a butcher in Orkney to pick up meat.
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VIDEO: Coastguard helicopter’s meat stop
The pilot of a coastguard helicopter in Shetland is suspended after dropping in on a butcher in Orkney to pick up meat.
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Pilot suspended over butcher trip
One of the pilots who has flown the adapted shuttle-carrying 747 has spoken to the BBC about the challenge of flying with such an unusual load.
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VIDEO: ‘I flew the shuttle piggy-back’
Fatigue led a pilot to mistake the planet Venus for another plane and send his airliner into a dive, injuring 16 people last year, investigators say.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is a chopper fanatic who has his own and pilots it, too, with a reputation for fastidiousness behind the controls.
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In Mayor Bloomberg’s Jet-Setting Heart, a Love for Helicopters
A JetBlue pilot has been indicted, accused of interfering with a flight crew just over two weeks after several passengers wrestled him to the floor after he exhibited what authorities described as erratic behavior.
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JetBlue pilot charged in meltdown
The number of genetic diseases for which newborn babies are tested will double in a pilot study by the Department of Health.
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Newborn screening to be expanded
Two Navy pilots ejected from a fighter jet Friday, sending their unmanned plane careening into a Virginia Beach apartment complex and engulfing several buildings in flames.
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Navy Jet Crashes in Virginia
In Mayor Bloomberg’s Jet-Setting Heart, a Love for Helicopters
Friday, April 13th, 2012
