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  • The Phoenix Lights is the most blatant appearance of a UFO over a large population â⠂ ¬â€ even the (ex-pilot) governor of Arizona saw the humongous object that night over Phoenix.

    Planet-x.com.au » Random Stuff, Part 30 2008

  • "We get a bit of pain, the load factor drops, but then it gradually builds up on both flights," says Davis, an ex-pilot who worked his way up the management ranks at Rex and now oversees the operations and safety side of the business out of Sydney.

    Cost-cutting Singaporean Investor Turns Around Australian Airline 2010

  • Without it, he wouldn't be the insanely classy and wonderfully quirky ex-pilot that he is!

    Bob $tencil Blog - How To Grow A Moustache « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • "We get a bit of pain, the load factor drops, but then it gradually builds up on both flights," says Davis, an ex-pilot who worked his way up the management ranks at Rex and now oversees the operations and safety side of the business out of Sydney.

    Savior from Singapore 2010

  • He is an ex-pilot, of course, and he loves planes.

    CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2009 2009

  • What do you get when you cross an ex-pilot with a moose-skinner!

    Beat 360° 10/01/08 2008

  • Bush, the ex-pilot, managed a stressfull mid-course flght correction that elevated his hand at the last moment and got it on her back.

    If the Olympics are "soft porn" and you are "concentrating" on the female gymnasts.... Ann Althouse 2008

  • When they lacked for other employment and were likely to be discouraged, the ex-pilot would “ride the bunk” and smoke and, without money and without price, distribute riches more valuable than any they would ever dig out of those Esmeralda Hills.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • So, when I left the army in 1968, it was as an ex-pilot and, in my mind, a failure.

    Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983

  • The ex-pilot deduced there would be little cooperation in exploration from that client until he was satisfied in his own quest.

    Star Hunter Andre Norton 1958

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