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Graham "Peepsight" Smith (April 19, 1919 – April 30, 1951) † was an U.S. Army Air Force officer and combat fighter pilot with the 332nd Fighter Group's...

Zealand academic Graham M. Smith, British political theorist Graham Smith (priest) (born 1947), former Dean of Norwich Graham Smith (pilot) (1919–1951), †...

his bunk. When Bedford himself subsequently turns up dead, the surviving pilot, Lt. Lincoln A. Scott (Howard) is accused of killing Bedford in retaliation...

Turner, a test pilot with the 416th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and Steve Schmidt, Boeing’s chief T-7 test pilot. On 21 September...

air-conditioned cockpit was roomy, and the pilot's seat was comfortable—"like a lounge chair", as one pilot later put it. The canopy doors hinged upward...

United States Army in the hopes of becoming a pilot. At that time, the Army did not accept black pilots, so Archer was posted to a communications job...

The Tuskegee Airmen /tʌsˈkiːɡiː/ was a group of African American military pilots (fighter and bomber) and airmen who fought in World War II. They formed...

after it was obsolescent as a fighter. On 14 October 1938, Curtiss test pilot Edward Elliott flew the prototype XP-40 on its first flight in Buffalo....

receipt of the test results and after further flights by a number of USAAF pilots, the results were so positive that North American began work on converting...

"Lauren Graham to Star in Fox Comedy Pilot 'Linda From HR'". Variety. Retrieved August 11, 2024. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lauren Graham. Wikiquote...

exploits of an actual groundbreaking unit, the first African-American combat pilots in the United States Army Air Corps, that fought in World War II. The film...

Silver Anniversary Lecture, in which Mark Twain spoke. Beginning with a pilot program in 1912, Rosenwald created model rural schools and stimulated construction...

Star Wars franchises. Terrence Howard had previously portrayed a Tuskegee pilot in Hart's War (2002), and Cuba Gooding Jr. had previously starred in The...

was named after Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather, a 25-year-old army pilot killed in a mid-air collision while training at Ellington Field, Texas on...

Thunderbolt, and P-51 Mustang fighters and was one of the first African-American pilots to see combat. Davis followed in his father's footsteps in breaking racial...

schools at eight colleges and established twenty-seven flying fields to train pilots. The War Department selected Rantoul because it was one of the few level...

Archived from the original on August 2, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014. Smith, J. Y. (1997-11-30). "Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young Dies". The Washington...

unusual layout, with the engine installed in the center fuselage, behind the pilot, and driving a tractor propeller in the nose with a long shaft. It was also...

Airmen Military history of African Americans List of Tuskegee Airmen Cadet Pilot Graduation Classes "Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson". thehistorymakers.com...

1944, trained with the Tuskegee Airmen, graduating as a 2nd Lieutenant pilot, but saw no combat. Deciding after the war to go into music, he bought a...