Posts Tagged ‘pilot’
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
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
Tags: 9/11, ban, border, cnn, kill, killed-while, pilot, sandy-dahl, stories, the-tragic, tragic, united, united-flight
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Saturday, May 12th, 2012
The Royal Navy pilots learning to fly state-of-the-art US fighter jets

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‘Top Gun’ training for UK pilots
Tags: art, fight, fighter-jets, fly-state-of-the-art, jet, navy, pilot, pilots-learning, royal, royal-navy, state
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
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
Tags: british, flying, joint, navy, nie, pilot, super-hornet, tells-the-bbc, the-first
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
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
Tags: ama, awk, blistering, british, coup, egypt, egyptian, egyptian-sahara, german, gypt, kittyhawk, north, pilot, sahara-on-june
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
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
Tags: cell, delhi, india, international, its-second, more-international, mumbai, pilot, pilots-enters, protest, sec
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
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 original air aces
Tags: being-100, cia, corps, flying, its-heroic, key-role, pilot, royal, war, world, years-ago
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
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
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
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
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
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’
Tags: adap, adapted, adapted-shuttle-carrying, bbc, challenge, flown-the-adapted, flying, pilot, pilots, the-pilots
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Monday, April 16th, 2012
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.

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‘Pilot fatigue’ caused jet dive
Tags: pilot, plane, planet
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
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
Tags: bloomberg, michael r, chopper-fanatic, control, cornwell, patricia, mayor-michael, michael, pilot, pilots
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
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
Tags: been-indicted, cnn, flight-crew, floor, jet, passengers-wrestled, pilot, the-floor, two-weeks
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
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
Tags: art, department, disease, epa, genetic-diseases, Health, newborn-babies, pilot, pilot-study, will-double
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
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
Tags: apartment-complex, border, fight, gulf, jet, pilot, plane, several-buildings, unmanned, unmanned-plane, virginia, virginia-beach
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
Five civilians, two pilots injured.
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F-18 Fighter Jet Hits Building
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