still alive?" ―Pixy Larry "Pixy" Foulke was a mercenary pilot during the Belkan War. He is much better known as simply "Pixy", as Cipher's wingman during the majority of Ace Com.
The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified, rock 'n' roll loses three stars in an Iowa plane crash, Serpico is shot, and a woman pilots the space shuttle for the first time, all on this day.
Historical Times / The wreck of the 1908 Wright Flyer that seriously injured Orville Wright & killed Lt. Thomas Selfridge, the first person to die as the result of an airplane accident, September 1908
Pilot ejecting from his Chance-Vought just 20 miles short of reaching his carrier, the USS America. His aircraft suffered fuel-system damage from flak over North Vietnam.
Pilot Captain Brian Bews parachutes to safety as his fighter jet plummets to the ground during a practice flight at the Lethbridge County Airport for a weekend airshow in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
World War I fighter pilot Albert Ball (August At the time of his death in the skies over France, he was Britains most lethal flying ace with forty-four victories.