I am a pilot and a tard and taught people how to fly. LOL But, today grounded for health reasons. It was a good ride for this old man, I loved all 50 years of flight.
I am friends with a geologist who worked South Louisiana. He would tell me about how they would run the logs back in the day on a barge rig. It was through the old ammonia log printers. He said the logs would all have these black smudges on them from the marsh mosquitoes that would land on the drum as they turned it.
My brother-in-law was an F16 pilot, flew in the Balkan War, then retired to become an airline pilot until he reached the mandatory retirement age. One day we were in Kitty Hawk and I saw a place that offered biplane rides. “Let’s do that”, I said. His face turned grey, as he shook his head and told me that he survived forty years of flying jets, some of it in combat, without a scratch, and that’s just the way it would happen -meaning he wasn’t going to temp fate any further.