How to Be a Flight Lead

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I wanted to be part of it. What happened? I mean who's in common? I just didn't want to climb, you know Fly back my airplane not knowing about it. That's why I wanted to go to MISTI And I found out about MISTI and I says hey, I want to go there and it's a volunteer thing. They guys says no one of the requirements is you have to be a flight lead. He finally got pissed off and he said okay got damn it I'll give you a flight lead check which I was no more qualified or Experienced or anything and so I went out and I didn't do a very good job as a flight

Retired United States Air Force officer and fighter pilot, test pilot, and record-breaking aviator who in 1986 piloted the Voyager aircraft on the first non-stop, non-refueled around-the-world flight with co-pilot Jeana Yeager. He was born in Loma Linda, California, where he gained an interest in flying at a young age. He is the older brother of famed aerospace designer Burt Rutan, whose many earlier original designs Dick piloted on class record-breaking flights, including Voyager.

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