Then and now: How pilot training has changed

2nd Lt. Joe Stara, center, a student pilot currently assigned to the 71st Student Squadron, poses by a T-37 Tweet with retired Air Force Col. Jim Faulkner, left, and retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jim Mayhall, Aug. 6, at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Faulkner and Mayhall were both student pilots at Vance in the late 1960s. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Airman 1st Class Octavius Thompson)