destroyed airplane
* British Casualties: 1,547 aircraft; 27,450 dead civilians, 32,138 wounded civilians; 498 RAF pilots * German Casualties: 1,887 aircraft
British Airline Pilots' Association was created on 1937-06-27.
The British Pilots As I Remember Were Issued Cards That Had Hidden Maps On Them
they were African Americans who were pilots
pilots for the British RAF
The British Harrier Pilots did well, but the British Navy under estimated the Argentine A-4 Skyhawk pilots (the US sold them US Jet Aircraft years earlier). Had not the Argentine pilots armed their bombs better, the British Navy would have probably lost the war. The A-4 pilots scored many hits on British warships, but half were duds. They had been armed for detonating at different altitudes. Had those bombs been armed properly, the British Navy would've been sunk, nearly all of them.
David McCampbell and Cecil E. Harris
It was safer and they had great training area. Also, many of the RAF pilots were Americans and Canadians. Some of the Americans did not serve with the US Army Air Corp and stayed with the RAF Army Air Corps through the entire war.
498 royal air force pilots died in the battle of Britain
there were 100,000 RAF (royal air force) pilots in the World War II and 90,000 died in the war
The first astronauts were test pilots.
Undoubtedly the Germans. British pilots shot down almost always parachuted to safety. German pilots shot down parachuted to imprisonment.