Chesley Sullenberger Civil aviation career How was Chesley Sullenberger involved in Civil aviation careers? Sullenberger was employed by US Airways and its predecessor airlines from 1980 until 2010. What all did he accomplish during these years? In 2007, he became the founder and CEO of Safety Reliability Methods, Inc. (SRM), a firm providing strategic and tactical guidance to enhance organizational safety, performance, and reliability. Did he accomplish anything else? In total, he has more than 40 years and 20,000 hours of flying experience. Did he earn any awards? He has also been involved in a number of accident investigations conducted by the USAF and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Was he involved in anything else? He served as an instructor, Air Line Pilots Association Local Air Safety Chairman, accident investigator, and national technical committee member.
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Sullenberger was employed by US Airways and its predecessor airlines from 1980 until 2010. (Pacific Southwest Airlines was acquired by US Air, later US Airways, in 1988.) He holds an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate for single and multi-engine airplanes, and a Commercial Pilot Certificate rating in gliders, as well as a flight instructor certificate for airplanes (single, multi-engine, and instrument), and gliders. In total, he has more than 40 years and 20,000 hours of flying experience. In 2007, he became the founder and CEO of Safety Reliability Methods, Inc. (SRM), a firm providing strategic and tactical guidance to enhance organizational safety, performance, and reliability.  He has also been involved in a number of accident investigations conducted by the USAF and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), such as Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 and USAir Flight 1493. He served as an instructor, Air Line Pilots Association Local Air Safety Chairman, accident investigator, and national technical committee member. His safety work for ALPA led to the development of a Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Circular. He was instrumental in developing and implementing the Crew Resource Management course that is used by US Airways, and he has taught the course to hundreds of airline crew members.  Working with NASA scientists, he coauthored a paper on error-inducing contexts in aviation. He was an air accident investigator for an NTSB inquiry into a major accident at Los Angeles International Airport, which "led to improved airline procedures and training for emergency evacuations of aircraft". Sullenberger has also been studying the psychology behind keeping an airline crew functioning during a crisis.  Sullenberger was active with his union, serving as chairman of a safety committee within the Air Line Pilots Association.  He was a featured speaker for two panels, one on aviation and one on patient safety in medicine, at the High Reliability Organizations (HRO) 2007 International Conference in Deauville, France, from May 29 to 31, 2007. CANNOTANSWER
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Major General Paul Lombard  was an artillery officer who completed the British Army Staff Course during 1967. He qualified as an Army Air Observation Pilot at the Central Flying School SAAF in Dunnottar. He served as the Chief of Army Staff Planning (GS6) in the South African Defence Force from 1991.

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He served as pilot at 42 Squadron SAAF, Gunnery Instructor at the School of Artillery and Armour. Maj Lombard was appointed as the Chief Instructor Gunnery and later Officer Commanding School of Artillery from 1976 to 1980 as a brigadier, he did a stint as the Officer Commanding Southern Cape Command at George during the 1980s. He was appointed as General of the Artillery from 1991 to 1993.

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South African military personnel of the Border War Fyodor Ivanovich Burtsev (; 27 June 1923  4 May 2003) was a decorated test pilot of the Gromov Flight Research Institute. A recipient of the titles Hero of the Soviet Union and Honored Test Pilot of the USSR for his career as a test pilot, he went on to serve as head of the Fedotov Test Pilot School from 1974 to 1988.

Early life
Burtsev was born on 27 June 1923 to a working-class Russian family in Kazaki village, located within present-day Tula oblast. In 1932 he moved to Moscow, where in 1940 he graduated from his eighth grade of school in addition to the local aeroclub named after Lenin before joining the military in January 1941. Upon graduating from the Borisoglebsk Military Aviation School of Pilots in November that year, he went on to serve as a flight instructor at the school until March 1942, and subsequently until June 1943 he served as an instructor pilot in the 2nd Separate Training Aviation Regiment, based in the Moscow Military District. Later he was briefly deployed to the frontline of the war, during which he flew 57 sorties on the La-5 fighter and gained one solo aerial shootdown, having been assigned to the 32nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment  in September to October 1943 and then the 111th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment until November that year. Until 1947 he served as an instructor pilot at the Higher Officer's School of Aerial Comber, although he briefly left in mid 1944 for combat training with the 322nd Fighter Aviation Division. Then from March 1947 to May 1948 he worked as an instructor pilot at the Air Force Training and Methodological Center in Volodarsk.

Test pilot career
Upon graduating from test pilot school in 1950, Burtsev became a test pilot at the Gromov Flight Research Institute. From 1951 to 1952 he took part in manned tests of the KS-1 Komet, an anti-ship air-to-surface missile along with Amet-khan Sultan, Sergey Anokhin, and Vasily Pavlov, for which they each received the Stalin Prize 2nd class in 1953. After the Komet tests he went on to test a variety of fighter jets, and in February 1955 he became the first to take off in the MiG I-370/I-1; he went on to conduct a numerous aerodynamics tests on the MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-19, MiG-21, E-4, E-5, and E-6, in addition to refueling system tests on the MiG-15 and MiG-17, and stability tests on the MiG-15 at supersonic speed. He also  participated in tests of prototype engines on Tu-4LL and Tu-16LL flying laboratories as well as tests of an automatic approach system on an Il-18. For his work as a test pilot he was awarded a variety of high honors including the title Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR in 1964 and Hero of the Soviet Union in 1966.

Later life
Having had a successful career as a test pilot at the Gromov Flight Research Institute, Burtsev went on to serve as head of the Fedotov Test Pilot School from 1974 to 1988, although he formally retired from active duty in the air force with the rank of colonel in March 1980. In 2001 he moved to Moscow from Zhukovsky, where he died on 2 May 2003 and was buried in the Danilovskoye cemetery.

Awards
 Hero of the Soviet Union (22 July 1966)
 Order of Lenin (22 July 1966)
 Honored Test Pilot of the USSR (21 August 1964)
 Stalin Prize 2nd class (1953)
 Order of the October Revolution (25 March 1974)
 Two Order of the Red Banner (20 September 1947 and 3 February 1953)
 Order of the Patriotic War 1st class (11 March 1985)
 Three Order of the Red Star (10 July 1944, 2 August 1944, 30 December 1956)

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Fedotov TPS alumni Lieutenant General Sartaj Singh (died 23 April 1998) was a senior officer in the Indian Army. He was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery of the British Indian Army in 1940, and served as an anti-tank gunner in Ceylon. After completing training to serve as a gunnery staff instructor in the UK in 1947, he served as the first Indian instructor at the School of Artillery in Deolali. He served on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Congo, and commanded a division in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1972 for his outstanding services to the nation. At the time of his retirement in 1974 he was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Command, with the rank of lieutenant general.

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