For starters, Marshall, a U.S. president played by box-office king Harrison Ford in this summer's "Air Force One, " is a highly decorated Vietnam pilot.

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Small story: Just the other day I was talking to an airline pilot, a captain, a highly respected man with decades of experience.

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In fact, a recent study by the Flight Safety Foundation found that 38% of all accidents in modern turbine-powered, glass-cockpit-equipped aircraft were likely or highly likely to have been prevented if the pilot had a HUD.

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Khanna began his movie career in the 1966 film Aakhri Khat (The Last Letter), but his breakout role came three years later in the highly successful Aradhana (Worship), in which he played a dashing pilot.

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Growing up as the son of a Connecticut Senator, he was the youngest pilot in the Navy in 1943, and an authentic, highly decorated hero who finished a bombing run after his plane was hit, already in flames, and about to crash.

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