COMPASS ROSE
After the loss of Amelia Earhart in the CALAMITY JANE and the gallant efforts of the VGL Pilots who risked and even lost their lives in the rescue efforts in 1937, the leaders of the VGL thought best to suspend flights while the project was re-evaluated. 
With the encouragement and financial backing of Rosalind P. Walter, philanthropist and inspiration for the song "Rosie the Riveter" which thereby inspired the famous wartime poster, new safety protocols were implemented in the prototype pod designated UFT 2.
One such pod remained ...
DEATH FROM ABOVE (1/28/2006)
The Death from Above nose art was commissioned to commemorate the reformation of the VGL and the new age of the Battletech Centers in 2005. This nose art honors the VGL pilots who have trained in the art of aerial `Mech Combat.
DEATH FROM ABOVE: Type: System 5.5
Commissioned: September, 2007
Upgraded to Mobile Armor Division MK I, January 2008
Damaged in Translocation, June 2010
Refit and returned to service,
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AGE OF DISCOVERY (7/1/50)
In 1950, James Morris became the first human being to walk in a virtual world. On learning of his mission, Morris chose a name for his pod from the words Ferdinand Magellan spoke to Charles V of Spain 450 years earlier: “God has willed us, Your ...
CALL OF THE WILD (4/21/37)
After flying solo from New York to Paris in 1927, Charles Lindbergh told a reporter he’d followed the “call of the wild.” The term stuck and Lindy attached the name to his VGL pod, the sister ship of Amelia Earhart’s CALAMITY JANE.
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CARPE DIEM
DIVINE WIND
Hidekazu Shikatomi was named the world’s first BattleTech Grand Master in 1994. Shikatomi, a professional race car driver, began competition in BattleTech in 1987 and progressed through the ranks; upon being named Grand Master, he was given his own pod, which he named DIVINE WIND to honor the ancient Samurai tradition.
DIVINE WIND: Type: System 3.0
Commissioned: December 1994
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 ...
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