As night fell, pilots had to interrupt their missions of dumping water and fire retardants until daybreak, said Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman.
The Nazis were slower than the Allies to replace downed aircraft (they had less experience with high-volume manufacturing); they were also slower to replace fallen pilots (their aircraft were harder to operate).
And it turned the fallen pilot, Wang Wei, into a national icon, memorializing him in relentless news coverage.
Mr. Rosen has a somewhat contrived role as Gabriel — yes, the name's a mite symbolic, as it is believed he's a fallen pilot.
Outside, there was a 21-gun salute and a flypast of warplanes in a "missing man formation", used to salute a fallen pilot.
He added that locals rushed to the fallen pilot and that he was "afraid" that they might harm him.
But she's back at it, this time as a country music queen in ABC's new drama "Nashville," and she's still outstanding: "Nashville" is the best of the fall pilots, if only because of her presence.
Top Fall Pilots Leaked Online [TVWeek].
Rounding out the crop of fall pilots is "Patriot" a political thriller about an intelligence officer who needs to go undercover in an attempt to prevent Iran from going nuclear, but complications ensue.
The drama, which I chose as one of my favorite fall pilots, has consistently had some of the best shot and best rendered fight scenes on TV, and even if everything else that transpired last fall wasn't quite up to the level of the fine pilot or the intriguing two-episode Huntress arc, the show has been a solid slice of escapism with a brooding undercurrent of ambiguous morality.
