Francis Walter Nye (June 29, 1918 – January 13, 2019) was a United States Air Force major general who was a B-24 Liberator and B-29 Superfortress combat pilot.

[3] Nye returned to the United States in April 1943 and, in September, entered the B-29 aircraft program, first as an acceptance test pilot at the Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas.

Captain Nye had finished a tour of duty previously with 36 missions in a B-24's named "Kickapoo" in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.

In August 1944, Nye flew the longest B-29 mission (over 4,000 miles (6,400 km)) in World War II by any type of aircraft to Palembang, Sumatra, from a forward base at China Bay, Ceylon.

In September 1946, he began duty as a Reserve Officers Training Corps professor of air science and tactics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Following an assignment to SAC Headquarters in May 1953 and attending the Air War College (July 1956-June 1957), Nye became a commander of various military organizations.