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>>Golf legend Arnold Palmer has made his final flight as pilot in command, calling it quits after almost 55 years at the controls of everything from open-cockpit biplanes to a Boeing 747. Along the way, he amassed nearly 20,000 hours in the cockpit.<<

I had no idea — some people are really amazing even when they aren’t being really amazing.

[stylin19a]

gets even better....

In 1969, Palmer piloted a Boeing 747 before the airplane had gone into commercial service.
In 1976, he set a round-the-world speed record that still stands.
Taking off from Denver in a Learjet 36 and heading east, Palmer circumnavigated the globe in 57 hours, 25 minutes and 42 seconds, stopping in Boston, Paris, Tehran, Sri Lanka, Jakarta, Manila, Wake Island and Honolulu.