Flight Safety and Beards
08-04-2025 | 09:21 AM
#11
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Question for anyone who may know:
I have an interview Tuesday with Flight Safety, in the last two months I’ve grown an incredible beard. Anyone ever notice if any of the instructors there have beards? Is a beard acceptable for an interview? I don’t really want to shave it off, though I will if I need to.
Appreciate any insights, thanks!
I have an interview Tuesday with Flight Safety, in the last two months I’ve grown an incredible beard. Anyone ever notice if any of the instructors there have beards? Is a beard acceptable for an interview? I don’t really want to shave it off, though I will if I need to.
Appreciate any insights, thanks!
08-04-2025 | 10:47 AM
#12
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
But in this case it might be a reasonable consideration... how bad does he need the job, and what are the odds of actually getting it?
If you're a pilot on a serious job hunt, you should shave most or all of it off. But if it's just an opportunity that popped up for a guy who's otherwise happy with his circumstances, maybe not as big of a deal.
08-04-2025 | 01:07 PM
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There are people today who refuse to apply to airlines over the beard issue.
But in this case it might be a reasonable consideration... how bad does he need the job, and what are the odds of actually getting it?
If you're a pilot on a serious job hunt, you should shave most or all of it off. But if it's just an opportunity that popped up for a guy who's otherwise happy with his circumstances, maybe not as big of a deal.
But in this case it might be a reasonable consideration... how bad does he need the job, and what are the odds of actually getting it?
If you're a pilot on a serious job hunt, you should shave most or all of it off. But if it's just an opportunity that popped up for a guy who's otherwise happy with his circumstances, maybe not as big of a deal.
08-04-2025 | 01:13 PM
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
It's a thing in this day and age. Imagine the shame, you'd have to delete your insta account I guess.
Personally I think any guy who's that invested in his hair needs to do a three year stint in the USMC to learn man fundamentals, that don't rely on grooming props. But it's a free country.
08-04-2025 | 01:28 PM
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National Aviation hall enshrinees:
A
Enshrined aviators, bearded bust list:
A
- Bert Acosta
- Buzz Aldrin
- John R. Alison
- William McPherson Allen
- Bud Anderson
- C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson
- Harry George Armstrong
- Neil Armstrong
- John Leland Atwood
- Thomas Scott Baldwin
- C. Donald Bateman
- Alan Bean
- Olive Ann Beech
- Walter Beech
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Lawrence Dale Bell
- Vincent Hugo Bendix
- William E. Boeing
- Frank Borman
- Walter J. Boyne
- Willa Brown
- Richard E. Byrd
- Robert Cardenas
- Marion Eugene Carl
- Clyde Cessna
- Clarence Chamberlin
- Claire Lee Chennault
- Jacqueline Cochran
- Bessie Coleman
- Eileen Collins
- Michael Collins (astronaut)
- Pete Conrad
- Albert Scott Crossfield
- Glenn Curtiss
- Sherman Fairchild
- Keith Ferris
- Anthony Fokker
- Steve Fossett
- Benjamin Foulois
- Jack Frye
- Fitzhugh L. Fulton
- Gabby Gabreski
- Dominic Salvatore Gentile
- Robert L. Gibson
- Robert R. Gilruth
- John Glenn
- George William Goddard
- Arthur Godfrey
- John Goglia
- Gus Grissom
- Leroy Grumman
- Fred Haise
- Margaret Hamilton (software engineer)
- Robert N. Hartzell
- Arthur Ray Hawkins
- Ed Heinemann
- Bob Hoover
- Daniel James Jr.
- Elrey Borge Jeppesen
- Kelly Johnson (engineer)
- Katherine Johnson
- Alvin M. Johnston
- Thomas V. Jones
- Clay Lacy
- Bill Lear
- Tony LeVier
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Charles Lindbergh
- Edwin Albert Link
- Allan Lockheed
- Nancy Harkness Love
- Raoul Lufbery
- Paul MacCready
- John A. Macready
- Glenn L. Martin
- James McDivitt
- Charles McGee (pilot)
- Thomas McGuire
- Russell W. Meyer Jr.
- Billy Mitchell
- Jerrie Mock
- John Joseph Montgomery
- Sanford Alexander Moss
- Story Musgrave
- Robert Campbell Reeve
- Ben Rich (engineer)
- Holden C. Richardson
- Eddie Rickenbacker
- Spirit of Freedom (balloon)
- Robert A. Rushworth
- Burt Rutan
- Dick Rutan
- Wally Schirra
- Bernard Schriever
- Thomas Selfridge
- Alan Shepard
- Abe Silverstein
- Robert Six
- Betty Skelton
- Deke Slayton
- Robert Stanley (aviator)
- Lloyd Stearman
- James Stockdale
- Kathryn D. Sullivan
- Patty Wagstaff
- Dwane Wallace
- Emily Howell Warner
- Ed White (astronaut)
- Robert Michael White
- Noel Wien
- Sam B. Williams
- Collett E. Woolman
- Wright brothers
Enshrined aviators, bearded bust list:
08-04-2025 | 01:52 PM
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08-05-2025 | 04:57 AM
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From: B-737NG preferably in first class with a glass of champagne and caviar
Negative… Been to many facilities in recent years. Some instructors and post holders sported neat and trimmed beards.
08-05-2025 | 05:51 AM
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But things change & the topic is interviewing. Behind a beard. Who knows, maybe we’ll get as Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story after today’s meeting?
