Thumbs Up Ready to crank 'er up, "Tailspin Tommy" signals ready. After over 5000 hours of biplane rides he still loves every flight--but finally wised up and got some help. Now we have 28 pilots that fly for us on a regular basis...when they aren't flying a 747, Navy S-3, Marine F/A-18, or an Air Guard KC-135, among other things. One of them even flew a U-2 until recently, and one flies his own L-29 "Delphin" jet. occured to us the other day that we have "The best of the best of the best."