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by seanvk 3 hours ago
My Dad, a flight instructor, loves to remind me that there are bold pilots and old pilots. But there are no old bold pilots.
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Chuck Yeager seemed pretty bold and died at 96.

Yay, one old bold pilot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager

Chuck Yeager was a very skilled pilot with inhumanly good vision and ridiculously good luck. He's also a good demonstration of survivorship bias.