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I have know and met many pilots in my lifetime. Heck my dad was a high time pilot in the USAF.
One of my friends that fortunately lived to retirement has returned to the ground 8 times with no engine. He was not flying gliders, but small civil aircraft. He is just lucky to be alive.
Another friend and my former boss took his last flight as pilot in command on his 92nd birthday. He started flying in the early 1940s. He was wearing a brown Army-Air Corps uniform and received orders to put on the new Blue uniform for the USAF. He was an instructor during the Korea's war. He flew so many hours he quit logging his time. He never ever even once had an emergency landing. He was very careful and experienced. He owned his own airplanes and hired the top mechanics from 1947 until he retired in 2006.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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