alt Hacker NewsAir force pilots are the modern day knights of the sky. Also, up until WW2, which social class you were from determined whether or not you were going to be an officer or canon fodder so rich kids swooping their way into being captains is historically normal.
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morkalork • yesterday at 10:18 PM
Incidentally: TIL George Bush Jr was an airforce pilot. Hah.
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Actually during the time when the nobility went to be fighter pilots it was a suicidal role with very low survival rates (ww1)