Earning Wings
On the second leg of our flight out to Seattle, Dorothy was presented with "wings" by one of the Northwest Airlines' flight attendants. They give them to all kids.
Now that the FAA is awarding commercial astronauts' wings , I wonder how soon it will be until those wings become simple little plastic trinkets to hand out to children on space flights, rather than their current status as a rare status symbol. (Were pilots' wings also originally only assigned to airplane pilots, and whene did they start?) When that day arrives, then we'll know the space frontier has been irrevocably opened.
Posted by Tom Nugent at October 12, 2004 07:21 PM