11.  He voted to allow women to become combat pilots and has bucked GOP leaders on environmental issues such as opposing oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve.

12.  Hennings is a former Air Force combat pilot.

13.  His son, Leonid, died as a combat pilot in World War II.

14.  In North Carolina, the First Flight Centennial Foundation has George Bush, former U.S. president and World War II Navy combat pilot, as its honorary chairman.

15.  In serving in the administration of George Herbert Walker Bush, Powell served a president who was a decorated combat pilot in World War II.

16.  In those days, the best a downed combat pilot could hope for was a safe life as a prisoner.

17.  It has an unlikely ally in Sen. John McCain, a combat pilot in Vietnam, who is trying to stop this bomber raid on the treasury.

18.  Most could be tanker pilots instead of combat pilots.

19.  Nobody was surprised when the combat pilot who had been decorated during World War II reenlisted for the Korean War.

20.  She twice volunteered to be a combat pilot in World War I, but she was turned down.