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One of my best friends was the first U.K. female fighter pilot.
Esther Mcvey /
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'Bhuj' has a strong ensemble and I play a Sikh fighter pilot in it.
Ammy Virk /
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I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.
Mj Hegar /
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My dad was a fighter pilot with the 210th Combat Aviation in Vietnam.
Harris Faulkner /
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I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.
Martha Mcsally / United States Representative
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Firsts
Pilots
Be The First
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I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.
Max Irons / Film Actor
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Hate
People
Want
Hate People Always
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James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.
Stephen Rodrick /
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Climber
Counts
James
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Robert
Robert Redford
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My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.
Patty Jenkins /
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Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.
Martha Mcsally / United States Representative
Women
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Hawaii
Physical Strength
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Said
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Completed
Well
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I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
Roald Dahl / Novelist
Desert
Egypt
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Flying
Greece
Hurricanes
Iraq
Libya
Syria
Western
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When I started at the Air Force Academy, I found out that I couldn't be a fighter pilot simply because I had ovaries. That was enough to make me go for it.
Martha Mcsally / United States Representative
Academy
Air Force
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Go For It
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As a child, I wanted to be an astronaut, then a fighter pilot, and then later, as I grew up, I was focused on scoring high marks so that I could do an MBA in marketing.
Taapsee Pannu /
Astronaut
Fighter Pilot
Focused
Marketing
Marks
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Scoring
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Children often ask me, they say, 'Well, how do you become a fighter pilot, or how do you become an astronaut, or...?' And I say, 'Love what you're doing and do it very well.'
Gregory H. Johnson /
Astronaut
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Love Me Doing
Love Me Children
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In 2001, I was an Air Force lieutenant colonel and A-10 fighter pilot stationed in Saudi Arabia, in charge of rescue operations for no-fly enforcement in Iraq and then in Afghanistan.
Martha Mcsally / United States Representative
Afghanistan
Air Force
Arabia
Enforcement
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Rescue
Saudi Arabia
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Colonel
Lieutenant
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Saudi
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My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork in.
Mike Vogel / Actor
Fighter Pilot
High School
Lazy
Paperwork
School
Senior
Senior Year
Wanted
Whole
Classes
Set
High
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Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
Adolf Galland /
Burning
Cockpit
Enemy
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Impossible
Impossible Things
Oil
Opinion
Smell
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I always wanted to tell stories. Well, at least, I always came back to the notion of storytelling when the glitz and glamour of being a special effects designer or a fighter pilot or a DEA agent wore off.
Cullen Bunn /
Designer
Effects
Fighter
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Glamour
Notion
Special Effects
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I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.
Celia Imrie / Film Actress
War
Bravo
Female
Fighter Pilot
Gun
Menace
Notion
Stars
Side
Star
Guns
Wars
Landed
Episode
Phantom
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Role
Star Wars
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People think coming in under the radar is like being a fighter pilot and actually coming in under the radar. It's a completely ridiculous idea to come in under the radar. It's the Olympics; everyone is on the radar here.
Bode Miller / Alpine Skier
Fighter Pilot
Olympics
Radar
Pilot
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Look, there might not be a whole lot of people that really can relate to being a fighter pilot. Let's just be honest. But there's a ton of people that can relate to being a mom, because I am doing it right along with them.
Amy Mcgrath /
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By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.
Spencer Bachus / U.s. Representative
Uncles
War
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Inclusion
Looking Forward
Memories
Stories
Veteran
World War Ii
War World I Am
At Least One
Project
Forward
Interviewing
Otherwise
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Uncle
World War
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My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas. I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater even though I didn't want to act.
Patty Jenkins /
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Music Always World
Ended
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Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed.
Reid Hoffman / Entrepreneur
Ability
Decision Making
Dies
Faster
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Silicon
Silicon Valley
Succeed
Terminology
Person
Live
Act
Effectively
Loop
Observe
Orient
Pilot
Valley
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I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.
Kapil Sharma /
Movies
Sports
Air
Air Force
Fascinated
Father
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Flying
Force
Given
Grew
Thinking
Movies Thinking Me
Books
Become
Encouraged
Grown
Interests
Pilot
Varied
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I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.
Luca Parmitano / Astronaut
Air Force
Fighter Pilot
Flying
Attend
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A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.
Jenson Button / Race Car Driver
Morning
Sports
Fighter Pilot
Formula One
Muscles
Pulling
Thinking
Breaking
Neck
Corner
Drives
Pilot
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From Clara Barton's tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female combat fighter pilot Lt. Kara Hultgreen, no list of American heroes is complete without the names of some of these extraordinary women.
Brian Kilmeade / Television Personality
Combat
Extraordinary
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Founding
Honor
Mary
Medal
Cross
Dr
List
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Tireless
Walker
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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
Gary Kemp / Musician
Dad
Future
Home
Science
Space
All Things
Book
Eight
Fiction
Fighter
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Isaac
Library
Novel
Science Fiction
Seeing
Stars
Love Future Science
Ace
Asimov
Books
Became
Star
Read
Fell
Guiding
Pilot
Pulled
Soon
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