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My question from tonight's episode: Does every pilot get a send-off like that on their retirement flight?
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Yes, or at least I hope so, as long as somebody make the arrangements in advance, when I was at Nippon Cargo Airlines we threw one hell of a party. We had the fire trucks, a plaque for the Captain, flowers for the family, a card signed by every crew member that came into the office for the past month, and whatever else we could muster up.
At every pilots last flight, there was guaranteed to be a room-full of tears, my favorite gift, is a retirement cane that I found in a joke store, comes equipped with a rearview mirror and a rabbit's foot.
At Polar Air Cargo, we had a couple of retirement flight parties. I think the best one was when I was driving the pilot's wife to the party she told me that she had some nudie photos take for the pilot, I took a lookie, not tooo bad.