Nose Art: Fly Girl

FLY GIRL

Roosevelt Taylor, the son of Alabama sharecroppers, was the first African-American to serve as valedictorian of his class at the Virginia Military Institute. After joining the U.S. Air Force, he rose to the rank of colonel and commanded fighter squadrons in Korea and West Germany; during the Gulf War of 1991, his squadron scored six kills and destroyed three SCUD missile sites without incurring a single casualty. Upon retiring from the Air Force, Taylor joined the VGL and led the first combat mission into Red Planet. He named his pod FLY GIRL after his wife, Lt. Col. Charlayne Taylor, First Deputy to the Secretary of the United States Air Force, and a trained pilot in her own right.

FLY GIRL I: Type: System 2.5
Commissioned: July 1993
Forty-one missions, 1993-1994
Mothballed: June 1994
FLY GIRL II: Type: System 4.0
Commissioned: March 1995

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