One More For The Checklist For some pilots, a good-luck charm is standard equipment. Mike ... retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Ralph Wetterhahn remembers a Navy pilot who had an odd practice.

Lt. Cmdr. John Tortorich, 33, is a pilot in the Navy. He was deployed in Iraq and Syria in 2016 aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Tortorich now trains pilots of Strike Fighter Squadron 105 ...