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This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

Harry Reasoner

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Harry Reasoner
Age: 68 †
Born: 1923
Born: April 17
Died: 1991
Died: August 6
Journalist
Dakota City
Iowa
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