Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, including biographies ... During her 31 years in uniform, Leavitt flew more than 3,000 hours, including 300 hours in combat above ...
Faced with a chronic pilot shortage and further affected by an inability to produce enough aviators to fill the gap, the U.S. Air Force has overhauled its initial pilot training program again by ...
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...