Even though several pilots had volunteered for this mission, Commander Ferrand had chosen him.
More than 250 Soviet pilots volunteered to fly the 255 I-15s supplied to China in autumn 1937.
A pilot has volunteered to fly you out in a Storch.
It wasn't an easy place to fly to, especially in the winter conditions, but finally a pilot named Billings volunteered.
Similar abnormality was seen during World War II when kamikaze pilots volunteered to sacrifice themselves to strike against their nation's enemy.
A Swiss pilot, a close friend of his but a very new pilot, volunteered.
By contrast, 139 Polish pilots volunteered to join the RAF.
When World War II broke out, there were numerous women who had training as pilots and many immediately volunteered.
Since the Kamikaze attacks were to be made only if the pilots had volunteered, and could not be commanded, there were two methods to collect volunteers.
Atta told Binalshibh that each pilot had volunteered for his assigned target, and that the assignments were subject to change.