Air acrobatics --; Fighter pilot gear --; Helmets and cockpits --; Expensive machines --; Air Force fighter planes --; Marine fighter planes --; Navy fighter planes --; Fueling an aircraft --; In-flight fueling --; Supersonic --; Stealth --; Navigation --; If you want to be a fighter pilot --; Answer key --; Glossary --; To learn more --; Index.
You're flying a high-performance plane that can go faster than the speed of sound and that costs hundreds of millions of dollars. You need to bring it down just right to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean. In this situation and in many others, fighter pilots use math to accomplish their missions.