If you look up the Northrop XP 79 in Wiki, it talks about the Northrop Aircraft and the test pilot, Harry Crosby, who died trying to eject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_XP-79
If you click on the name of Harry Crosby to look him up, it takes you to another page, which provides a link to Harry Crosby (pilot)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Crosby_%28pilot%29
If you click the link to search for Harry Crosby (pilot) it takes you too a list of results.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Se ... 28pilot%29
On this page, the third link down is for Eliminators, a 1986 movie in which a 'test pilot' who died in a plane crash is converted into a cyborg, or mandroid they call it, by an evil scientist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminators
Absolutely no connection between this movie and Call of Duty, Ricthoven or Harry Crosby, but we have a Robot bus driver driving a bus called XP 79, and the XP 79 was piloted by Harry Crosby who died on the maiden test flight.