James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.

I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.

You get as many G's (forces of gravity) as a fighter jet pilot.

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.