"But soon Nielsen, the governor of the colony, came out to us in a boat to bid us welcome and pilot us in.
Waiting for us in the first motor chair to go out in 1940, was Frank Gates, who had piloted us in our farewell tour of the grounds in October.
As my cab driver piloted us towards the city centre, from little remarks she made about routes, traffic and neighbourhoods I began to apprehend something unheimlich.
Now in a different blue yonder, he piloted us around a World War II tank that had been left behind and was now providing shelter to schools of reef refugees.
We have lost our founder, the source of our inspiration, the towering personality that was Erica Jesselson, our shining star, whose brilliance, creativity, goodness, and personal piety piloted us for more than three decades.
I piloted us cleanly beneath the George Washington Bridge all the way up to the Tappan Zee, where we decided it would be prudent to practice backing up for when we'd stop for fuel at the Tarrytown marina.
Truly, Captain Sully is piloting us all to a much better place.
"Pilots let us collect and use data to evaluate innovative programs or brand-new initiatives before investing major resources in ideas that may not prove to be effective".
And just for the record, so-called precision bombs were initially developed to save US pilots' lives and US taxpayers' dollars, not to spare civilian lives.
The performance results of these pilots in US-Bakken versus Canadian-Bakken have been compared.
