Sentence examples for naval pilot from inspiring English sources

Educator, WWII naval pilot, stellar athlete.

The pair approached him to direct Top Gun, a romantic thriller about a naval pilot in training, with a charismatic cast headed by Tom Cruise.

In her book, Williams provides the account of an American naval pilot, Commander Charles Southall, who was working at the NSA listening station in Cyprus in 1961.

The former naval pilot was taken prisoner by north Vietnamese soldiers where he was held in captivity for nearly six years.

McCain served as a naval pilot before he was captured by Vietnamese soldiers in 1967 and held in Hanoi as a prisoner of war.

Mr. McCain, of Arizona, has long had a constellation of loyal friends and advisers, some of whom date to his years as a naval pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam, not to mention his presidential bid in 2000.

Thousands of naval pilots also passed through Glenview Naval Air Station, receiving flight instruction on two aircraft carriers on the lake that were converted from old passenger vessels.

Battle of Midway, (June 3 6 , 1942, World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots.

This is exemplified in the 1991 Tailhook scandal, where more than 80 US naval women officers were sexually harassed by US naval pilots while attending a two-day symposium at a Las Vegas hotel.

For example, China's first aircraft carrier, purchased from Ukraine in 1998, set out on its shakedown cruise last summer, but China still has no planes equipped to land on its deck, and its naval pilots are still training ashore.

American naval pilots, aided by decrypted Japanese communications and no small amount of luck, destroyed Japan's first-line carrier force and effectively deprived Japan of the ability to prosecute an offensive war in the Pacific.