Legendary top Israeli air force test pilot Danny Shapira recalls his career heights: “Every new plane that Israel received, I flew it.” “Ever since I was a young boy, I wanted to be a pilot,” Shapira told The Jerusalem Post from his home in Haifa. At 93 years old, he has fought in six wars and has watched his beloved air force grow ‘from zero to a regional superpower.’ “I started when we did not have our own country, our own army or air force. We did not fight with weapons, but we fought with our hearts; we had to win,” he said. “The wish for freedom, sacrifice, dedication, and the dream to have our own country under our own flag is what won the War of Independence.”