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93How to Become a Fighter Pilot
Fighter pilots fly high performance jet planes in combat. Their primary job is to defend our troops and positions against attacks by enemy aircraft. To become a fighter pilot, you first must join the armed forces preferably the Air Force or the...
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87How to Become a Fighter Pilot With the Air National Guard
In a previous Hub I discussed, in general terms, what is required to become a fighter pilot. That article dealt with the general attributes and requirements for joining the fraternity of elite aviators serving in aerial combat wings of various...
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87Importance of Fighter Pilots in WWII
How important were Fighter Pilots in WWII? Six WWII Fighter Pilots recount their experience.
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81On a Steed of Red, Baron von Richthofen Rides to War
Manfred von Richthofen - medieval knight or early adopter of new technology? He actually started World War 1 riding a horse, and his service to the Kaiser seems anachronistic today. Yet he was of the generation that lived to see the space age and wrote a book that was read by air forces on both sides for its valuable descriptions of air combat tactics.
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84How to Become a Jet Pilot
Airplane pilots are a special breed. Competition for jobs as a pilot is intense as are the physical and training requirements needed to become a pilot. If you want to be a pilot this article shows you how to get started.
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82Are You a Turtle?
Reading an account of the death of the former astronaut Wally Schirra, I was reminded of the Are you a turtle? question during one of the space flights. In the article I read, Schirra was asked this during...
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79An Air Force Base Remembers its Past Pilots and Their Aircraft
Sitting peacefully in the desert at the entrance to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, AZ is park memorializing past pilots and their aircraft.
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78Jobs That Will Be Obsolete
Here is a list of jobs I foresee disappearing from our economy in the near future. Many of my choices will seem surprising to many. . .
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77Agatha Christie's Greatest Mystery - Mystery Files
It was 9.45pm on a cold wintery night in 1926. Agatha Christie entered her daughter Rosalind's bedroom, kissed the sleeping child, then walked out of Styles, her Berkshire home, dressed only in a grey cardigan, green knitted skirt and a velour hat, and just... disappeared. The next morning her car, a two seater Morris Cowley, was found half a mile away at Newlands Corner near Guildford. The ignition had been left on, the handbrake was off and the cars front wheels were teetering over the edge o
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77Funeral Home Personalization or Abuse?
David Morales Coln's unusual wake. Photo courtesy of Primera Hora Many funeral homes and directors claim to give the customer what they really want. “We service all requests,” they will say. You will hear clever marketing...
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