The four-year curriculum, leading to a bachelor's degree and a second lieutenant's commission in the Air Force, covers traditional higher education as well as airmanship.
Sir Andrew said: "Throughout his tour, his airmanship, often in the most demanding of conditions, has contributed directly to saving lives in the mountains of North Wales and from the ravages of the Irish Sea".
The airmanship program includes military training, intramural athletics, leadership, and flight training.
They must pull off extraordinary feats of aeronautical airmanship, sure, but the bigger challenge is keeping the attention of an audience that already receives regular doses of adrenaline from various forms of entertainment.
Those accidents along with the Northwest incident all occurred within seven months of each other and not long after the Hudson River landing of US Airways Flight 1549 that turned the pilots of that flight into icons of professional airmanship.
Sully depicts this feat of gifted airmanship with all the vérité that Hollywood's cinematographic wizardry can bring to bear.
Faced with a mounting bill for the crashes, and fewer UAVs to use, the MoD has admitted that it is trying "to increase airmanship standards in a number of areas" by updating training courses.
The aircraft's crew were awarded ceremonial keys to the city of New York and captain Chesley Sullenberger has been praised as a hero for his airmanship in landing the stricken plane in one piece, allowing all 155 people on board to escape.
He was awarded the Medal of Honor in October 1943 for his "superb airmanship and tenacious fighting spirit" in downing the seven Japanese bombers.
I've lost count of the number of times I have seen pilots receive safety awards from their peers for feats of superior airmanship where their acceptance remarks boiled down to some form of "Hey, we were only doing what we had been trained to do".
He got his pilot's license as a teenager, flew F-4 Phantoms for the Air Force and was a 1973 graduate of the Air Force Academy, where he received the Outstanding Cadet in Airmanship Award, given to the top flier in each graduating class.
