Success in aviation always has been a matter of perspective. Student pilots hoping for an airline career in the '50s attributed their lack of success to the oversupply of military pilots emerging from the Korean War. Pilots in the '60s said that ex-military pilots had the run of jobs, and that social and economic turmoil made the outlook grim for a sustained airline career. Flight students in the 70s blamed the economy and the reduction of cockpit crews from three to two for making a professional pilot job a poor career choice. Yet those decades were considered some of the most lucrative years for pilots.
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