johnpeace
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Here's a video shot a few weeks ago by a guy I fly hang gliders with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWoFc4vyPmY
It's a US Navy T-39 buzzing my friend and another pilot over Lookout Mountain outside of Chattanooga, TN.
The T-39 crashed about 100 mi away killing all 4 crew later that week.
If his timing were good and he got lucky sure...
But he might just as easily wind up furloughed, on strike, in the right seat for the rest of his career.
You never really know what you're going to get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWoFc4vyPmY
It's a US Navy T-39 buzzing my friend and another pilot over Lookout Mountain outside of Chattanooga, TN.
The T-39 crashed about 100 mi away killing all 4 crew later that week.
I saw a spreadsheet circa 2000 that showed a O-5 who separated at 17 years and went to the "average" major airline would, by age 60, earn more than $1 million *more* in lifetime earnings than the guy who stayed 3 more years until retirement and then went to the majors at age 42.
If his timing were good and he got lucky sure...
But he might just as easily wind up furloughed, on strike, in the right seat for the rest of his career.
You never really know what you're going to get.