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A fighter pilot or combat pilot is a military aviator trained to engage in air-to-air combat, air-to-ground combat and sometimes electronic warfare while in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft. Fighter
Ilmari Juutilainen, a Finnish WWII fighter pilot with Brewster BW-364 "Orange 4" on 26 June 1942 during the Continuation War.
USAF fighter pilots heading to their jets before takeoff (2006)
Sabiha Gökçen in front of a Breguet 19, circa 1937.
2nd Lt. Ajeng Tresna Dwi Wijayanti, Indonesia's first female fighter pilot – 2020
MM Alam
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Muhammad Mahmood Alam best known as M. M. Alam and affectionately nicknamed Little Dragon and Peanut Alam, was a Pakistani flying ace, war hero, and a former one-star rank officer in the Pakistan Air
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…and others who went on to non-fighter pilot notability (record-breaking test pilots, astronauts and cosmonauts, politicians, business leaders, etc.): M M Alam Marcel Albert…
Alam poses with his F-86 Sabre, 1965
Photograph taken from the gun camera of Squadron Leader MM Alam shows an IAF Hunter aircraft plummeting to the ground in flames after its wing tanks ruptured following a brief burst of 0.5-inch Browning machine-gun fire by Sqn Ldr Alam, 1965.
Field Marshal Ayub Khan pins the Sitara-i-Jurat on Squadron Leader MM Alam, 1966
Alam in 2010