Alvarez might be the man; A4 Skyhawk jet pilot, USN.
The first jet-to-jet combat occurred on November 8, 1950 when a P-80 shot down a pair of Mig-15's over North Korea.
The name of the war plan that Indian President Prathibha Patel set a record in to be the oldest woman to fly in a combat jet was a Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet aircraft.
During the Vietnam War, when a US Naval jet pilot said "Bingo fuel", he had to return to his career ASAP, his fuel was gone...other than for the return trip.
US Navy aviator; pilot of an A-4 Skyhawk jet fighter bomber during the Vietnam War.
To fly a jet for non-commercial use, first you must obtain a Private Pilot's license. Then you must be certified on each individual aircraft type you wish to fly. To become a commercial pilot, you must then complete the training and hours requirements to be certified as a Commercial Pilot. Again, you must be individually certified or "rated" for each different aircraft you fly.
Phil Oestricher, was the first pilot to fly YF-16 No. 1,
Pilot Training Schools are the best places you can learn how to fly a private jet.
Most military fighter jets run with a single pilot and a flight officer. The Flight Officer is not trained to fly the aircraft.
The first turbojet aircraft to fly was the Heinkel He 178
Given a skilled enough pilot - yes.
I believe that would be Messerschmitt test pilot Fritz Wendel when he flew the third prototype of Me 262 on 18 July 1942.
In order to be certified to fly a private jet, you'll need to attend commercial pilot ground school. You will also need to log in a few hundred hours of documented flight time.
One of the greatest aviatrixes in the United States if not the world was Jacqueline Cochran. Even though she died back in 1980, she still holds more aviation records than ANY pilot, male OR female! Among her many, many accomplishments, she was the first woman to break the sound barrier. She was also the first woman to land and take off from an aircraft carrier, the first woman to pilot a bomber across the North Atlantic (in 1941), the first woman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio, the first pilot to make blind (instrument) landing, the ONLY woman to ever be President of the Federation Aeronautique lnt'l (58-61), the first woman to fly a jet airplane across the Atlantic, the first pilot to fly above 20,000 feet with an oxygen mask and the first woman to enter the Bendix Trans-continental Race.
The first jet to fly was Heinkel He 178. Its top speed was 598 kph. It was built by a young engineer named Hans von Ohain. It was the first practical jet plane.
Probably not in commercial service--the FAA has mandatory retirement ages, and a Vietnam-era fighter pilot is past those. But if it's his own plane, and he's current and trained to fly jets, he could fly it.
The first turbo jet flight took place on August 27, 1939 in Germany. The jet was a Heinkel He 178 and the pilot's name was Erich Warsitz.