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  2. Douglas C-47 Skytrain - Wikipedia

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    Initial military version of the DC-3 had four crew (pilot, co-pilot, navigator, and radio operator) and seats for 27 troops alongside the fuselage interior. "Aerial Ambulances" fitted for casualty evacuation could carry 18 stretcher cases and a medical crew of three; 965 built (including 12 for the United States Navy as R4D-1).

  3. Andrii Pilshchykov - Wikipedia

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    Andrii saw how pilots, military pilots, are treated in America, and he tried to do everything he could to make sure that pilots in Ukraine were treated the same way.” — Volodymyr B., Born for the sky: Andrii “Juice” Pilshchykov obituary, Studying at the Ivan Kozhedub National Air Force University and serving in the Air Force of Ukraine

  4. That's All, Brother - Wikipedia

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    That's All, Brother [a] is a Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft (the military version of the civilian DC-3) that led the formation of 800 others from which approximately 13,000 U.S. paratroopers jumped on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the beginning of the liberation of France in the last two years of World War II.

  5. Aviation Cadet Training Program (USAAF) - Wikipedia

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    Basic Pilot Training taught the cadets to fly in formation, fly by instruments or by aerial navigation, fly at night, and fly for long distances. Cadets got about 70 flight hours in BT-9 or BT-13 basic trainers before being promoted to Advanced Training. [16] Advanced Pilot Training placed the graduates in two categories: single-engined and ...

  6. Arnold Scheme - Wikipedia

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    The Arnold Scheme was established to train British RAF pilots in the United States of America during World War II.Its name derived from US General Henry H. Arnold, Chief of the United States Army Air Forces, the instigator of the scheme, which ran from June 1941 to March 1943.

  7. United States Army Air Forces Contract Flying School Airfields

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    A subset of the CFS's were Glider Training Schools. Their mission was to train unpowered glider pilots; not powered aircraft pilots. Military Gliders were a new development that began in the 1920s when after the Treaty of Versailles, the German Air Force was disbanded. However, the treaty did not prohibit Germany from having sport gliding clubs ...

  8. Reaching for the Skies - Wikipedia

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    "The Adventures of Flight": An account of the master aviators and experimental pilots who pushed the limits of aviation, featuring former test-pilot Bob Hoover and the first female Boeing 747 flight commander, Lynn Rippelmeyer. "The Aeroplane goes to War": A historical survey of the role of aeroplanes in World War I, their first major military ...

  9. List of surviving Douglas A-1 Skyraiders - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft is painted in the markings of VAW-33 as embarked with Carrier Air Wing 6 (CVW-6) aboard the aircraft carrier USS America (CV-66) in 1967. [50] AD-6 (A-1H) 135300 – National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola, Florida. This aircraft is painted in the markings of Attack Squadron 25 . [51]