Why are civilian airline pilots given the military title "Captain"?It just seems weird to me that people who work in a non-government, non-military job wear military insignia and have military titles.
Probably the same reason an owner of a boat is called Captain.
It's just a mundane title to make them feel important.
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As a flying instructor for the defunct China National Aviation Corp. in the 1940s, Mr. Mahrt was part of a US-China-owned organization that developed the first airline in the Himalayas and worked alongside theU.S. Army Air Transport Command to airlift supplies and people who have been identified by the Japanese to Allied forces in China and Burma, now Myanmar.
On Thursday, Mr. Mahrt and its contributions to other pilots in the war effort in the theater China-Burma-India will be honored at the opening of an exhibition at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force near Dayton .At the exhibition opening prices of the bump: China National Aviation Corporation, will be eight ex-captains NACC - including that of Toledo - a former air hostess NACC, and dozens of family members of pilots .
"Reaching the summit" was the nickname used for the perilous journey across the Himalayas.