The Age · Travel / Inspiration

Meet the pilot with the best job in the world

· By Craig Tansley
Story summary

When I was 12 years old, I watched Top Gun at the movies and began plotting a life as an elite US Navy jet pilot (like Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell). So what if I didn’t care for heights, threw up on rollercoasters and wasn’t American?

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