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“There was also the fact that you were the one on the horse. Everyone was in business to support you -- all the ground crews, all the supply people, everybody. That gave you a feeling, I would say, of over-importance, probably. But you wore that. You had to wear it...as a pilot, you're nobility from the very beginning.”
— James Salter, author and U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre pilot during the Korean War, in an April 15 New Yorker profile.
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