Kurt the king of the Hornet

A former US Navy Boeing F/A-18 Hornet pilot, now flying with the Kuwait Air Force (KAF) recently passed a major flying milestone. Alan Warnes met him. Kurt ‘Beavis’ McClung, a F/A-18C/D instructor pilot serving with the KAF, surpassed an incredible 5,000 flying hours, on March 5 this year. “I flew...

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