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HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, New Mexico (Reuters) - The tide of war may be receding, as President Barack Obama is fond of saying, but U.S. military demand for unmanned drones and their remote pilots is growing.
chicagotribune.com (29 days ago)
Two Chinese air force pilots were killed when their Russian-made Su-27 fighter crashed during a training mission, the country's defense ministry said.
wsj.com (1 month and 20 days ago)
After a decade of dropping bombs on terrorists hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan and providing air cover for troops fighting in Iraq, hundreds of pilots are learning from specially trained “aggressors” — like Plymouth native Scott Snider, an Air Force pilot — how to confront a sophisticated enemy air force or network of anti-aircraft missiles.
boston.com (2 months and 29 days ago)
U.S. military demand for unmanned drones and their remote pilots is growing. ...
yahoo.com (29 days ago)
The United States Air Force is developing insect-sized drones that it believes will better equip the American armed forces in the future. The drones will provide a new intelligence gathering tool that one day may also be lethal.
greenvilleonline.com (3 months and 1 day ago)

TWO pilots have been fined and suspended for a month after allegedly letting a model pose for photographs in the cockpit mid-flight.
news.com.au (9 days ago)
The large number of limos he has lined up to follow his every action and the civilian pilots he hired to fly Air Force One and Two should be flown by our own Air Force pilots trained to fly these planes as part of their job.
mydesert.com (1 month and 21 days ago)
Two Air India pilots put the lives of 166 passengers on a Bangkok-Delhi flight in danger by taking a 40-minute break from the cockpit and getting two stewardesses to operate the plane in their absence.
indiatimes.com (19 days ago)
SANAA, Yemen (AP) - Yemeni security officials say suspected militants have killed three air force pilots as they were en route to an air base in the country's south.
boston.com (14 days ago)
SANAA, Yemen-Yemeni security officials say suspected militants have killed three air force pilots as they were en route to an air base in the country's south.
denverpost.com (14 days ago)
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