You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.
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And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
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You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.
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