“We had a few guys who came into Flight Operations who had been around awhile, and they had trouble believing that they were able to do what they were doing. I had a guy who was uncomfortable with it, and he used to ask me, ‘How can you have the confidence to do this?’ My reaction was, ‘Well, how the hell do I know? I don’t go around analyzing that, I just do it!’ The people who’d been around for a while maybe had been blunted. They didn’t do too well. The people who came in new, out of school, they didn’t know any better. They didn’t know they shouldn’t do things or couldn’t do things, or
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