Great list, Mike, thanks for posting it!

I have to disagree about the old, bold pilots, though - my father-in-law, who passed away a couple of years ago at 89, was a bush pilot in the Canadian North and a flight instructor and test pilot in WWII. He had more lives than 9 cats, surviving going through the floorboards of a DH60 Moth after glass-water floats landing, a crash into a tree of another Moth, loaded with fuel drums, after encountering a downdraft in a narrow canyon, navigating to Great Bear Lake in the Arctic with only a map on a calendar for guidance, making a successful one-wheel landing in a fighter-bomber in England while carrying a live 10,000 lb bomb underneath, having his Harvard chopped in half by a student in another Harvard who mistook the taxiway for the runway, and being the first pilot to pull out of a high speed dive test in a Typhoon (I think - might have been a Tempest), the previous two having gone straight into the ground, a fact they only told him about after he landed.

My wife has her PPL and he flew with her about two years before he died, hobbling out to the Cardinal on two canes. He was giving her valuable tips all the way up, and when he took the controls it was obvious that the Master's touch had not been lost.