Lt Daniel Latham takes to the air in an F-18 Hornet
Royal Navy 'Top Gun' Pilots Train to Fly US Fighters -- BBC
The F18 fighter jets gleam dazzling silver in the California sunshine at Naval Air Station Lemoore, where the control tower handles up to 300 operations a day.
British Royal Navy pilot Lt Dan Latham is walking out to his aircraft with his American colleague for a training mission that will see them fly through the cloudless skies for hundreds of miles over the desert on a practice bombing raid.
Dan, from Ormskirk in Lancashire, is one of the lucky few chosen to fly with his American naval counterparts in the US for four years.
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My Comment: Only 9 pilots training .... with 4 on the way .... I would have expected more.