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Thankfully this won't apply to pilots....

FAR 67.107

Mental standards for a first-class airman medical certificate are:

(a) No established medical history or clinical diagnosis of any of the following:
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(3) A bipolar disorder.
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Thankfully this won't apply to pilots....

I think Roal Amundsen and Richard Byrd were both bipolar, though Byrd was just the navigator.

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer who was the first person to fly over the North Pole in a dirigible (May 11-13, 1926) and was the first person to reach the South Pole.