With their steely nerves and cool demeanor, fighter ... drinking water in case they are downed, this particular bag serves another purpose. Using the zipper on the front of his uniform, a pilot ...

Three F-5N Tiger IIs from Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401 in Yuma, Arizona, join up to fight as a team. A canvas water bag ... outside the cockpit. That connects the modern pilot with Oswald ...

To avoid the need for a toilet break, pilots would drink very little water during flights ... a former U.S. Marine Corps F-18 fighter pilot and current instructor at Skyborn Airline Academy ...

USAF / Major Karen Roganov At 5:30 A.M., it's still dark as I key in the code to enter the hangar at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, home of Marine Fighter ... the pilot has a set of cockpit ...

Vincent Aiello, then 8 years old, peers into an F-14A Tomcat cockpit at the Naval Air Station ... about his circuitous journey to becoming a fighter pilot and teaching in the Navy Strike Fighter ...

Marty Richard, call sign OPUS, has been an F-15 pilot for 12 years. He flew in the Gulf War and has piloted commercial jets professionally. Now a fighter ... collecting drinking water in case ...