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Old 05-18-2017 | 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by TransWorld
Interesting but not a surprise. In Great Britain Prince Charles and his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry all have been helicopter pilots in the military.

It's the norm for young royalty to do military service, kind of expected.

A bit unusual to fly for an airline, but cool non-the-less.

We tend to get wrapped around the negatives of the airline biz sometimes, but when you see rock n roll gods and kings doing our job when they don't have to it reminds you that a lot of people wanted to do this, but not many could (especially in the older generations).
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