He said the government was committed to improving the working conditions of fighter pilots.
India has been looking to buy an advanced jet trainer aircraft to help train its fighter pilots.
The seven pilots had been just that -- fighter pilots, test pilots -- before being selected for the space program.
Today, fighter pilots Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng became instant national heroes.
He also spoke candidly on the issue of fighter pilots wanting to quit the IAF for better salaries being offered by private Indian airlines.
Fighter pilots were sent up to intercept Stewart's plane after controllers lost contact with it, and they reported its cockpit and cabin windows were frosted over.
The Sky Crawlers, meanwhile, sees Oshii Mamoru, creator of celebrated anime Ghost in the Shell, bring his philosophical outlook to a science-fiction romance about young fighter pilots.
But humility is not required of fighter pilots and astronauts.
In part, I found answers to the question while serving in the South Carolina Air National Guard and partnering with one of the greatest F-16 Fighter Pilots I know.
Italy's fighter pilots, after all, are often described by their counterparts in terms familiar from the world of sport: flashy, skilful, sometimes a bit reckless, and lacking the patience to be solid team players.
"The Prime Minister attended the D-Day commemoration event in France - I hope you would agree there is an equally pressing need here to safeguard the memory of those fighter pilots who helped preserve our freedom, " she said.
So I've appointed a special envoy, a Major General Scott Gration, a very close friend of mine, was one of the top fighter pilots in our military, in our Armed Forces, and somebody who's also an expert on development issues.
They are not, in other words, to be confused with Executive Outcomes, a defunct South African firm that could provide anyone who was rich enough to pay with machinegunners and fighter-pilots who had plenty of combat experience.
The Rad Lab had been developing a radar device for fighter aircraft that would allow pilots to identify distant German bombers, and was hiring hundreds of scientists every few months.
In fact, American pilots even flew French fighter jets off a French aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean.
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His most recent acquisition is an AT-6 training plane used by the Tuskegee airmen, the black pilots who flew as the 332nd Fighter Group in World War II.
Among the new measures: sponsoring more student pilots for commercial-aviation training and extending the fighter-pilot conversion program from three weeks to six months.
The defeat of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe by the RAF's Hurricane and Spitfire pilots in October 1940 came at a cost of more than 1, 000 fighter planes.
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