1.  Allen said there were more black military pilots flying during World War II than there are today.

2.  Fleischer said the impact of what the black combat pilots accomplished should be measured more closely.

3.  He is one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering black pilots of World War II.

4.  He joined the Air Force in his teens, but his hopes of becoming one of the few black pilots of that era were never realized.

5.  Leader has been its sole black pilot for several years.

6.  The black pilots are initally kept out of Europe, confined to strafing runs in North Africa.

7.  The black pilots even had fun.

8.  The camps are one way OBAP seeks to boost the tiny percentage of black pilots at U.S. airlines.

9.  The more times he and the other black pilots flew, the better they became, making it impossible for white officers to send them home.

10.  There are fewer than a dozen black female pilots on major airlines, according to the Organization of Black Airline Pilots.