She was a famous pilot and writer.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

The operation according to Metehan Demir, a former military pilot and leading journalist in Turkey, was not a surprise.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Walsh spent eight years in academia. The retired Navy captain continued to pursue his passions as a scuba diver, private pilot and explorer, participating in dozens ocean dives and expeditions to the polar regions.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Snoopy dreams of himself as a pilot searching for the Red Baron, a famous German fighter pilot in World War One.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

A few days before she left, she gave a small American flag to her friend Jacqueline Cochran, another female pilot.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Pilot Chesley Sullenberger safely landed a US Airways passenger plane on New York's Hudson River after both its engines failed.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

In another example, pilot Edith Foltz Stearns was flying a plane to a military base in Scotland during World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

It carried the man who became the first human to step on the moon, Neil Armstrong, a former X-15 pilot.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

When last heard from, Amelia Earhart was seeking to become the first female pilot to fly a plane around the world.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

It could change the plane's path just enough to destroy the pilot's chance of a safe landing.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

But he was killed in nineteen forty-four during service as a Navy pilot in World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

He was a test pilot. He had flown earlier on one of the two-man Gemini space flights.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

There was a new system of liquid nitrogen to keep the pilot cool and to resist the crushing force of gravity at high speeds.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The pilot reported a double bird strike - a rare event where birds enter both engines.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Instead, he and co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles and their three flight attendants prepared for a water landing.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

After a few seconds, when the X-15 was safely away, the pilot started its rocket engine.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

He wrote a best-selling book. He was a poet, an artist and an airplane pilot.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

Ten years later, he became a pilot on a steamboat that sailed on the Mississippi.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

So Clemente paid for a small plane and a pilot to take supplies to Nicaragua.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

But he was a fighter pilot,not a test pilot, and not a very good commander.

VOA: special.2011.07.18

Jacqueline Cochran was a well-known female pilot in the United States at that time.

VOA: special.2010.11.08

Wiley Post was a hero. He had become the most famous pilot in America.

VOA: special.2009.03.18