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  • Dutch king reveals he had a job

    I mean, besides being King...crazy royals

    The Dutch king has revealed that for more than two decades he has, alongside his royal duties, held down a part-time second job.

    In a newspaper interview published on Wednesday, King Willem-Alexander said that he recently ended his role as a regular “guest pilot” after 21 years on KLM’s fleet of Fokker 70 planes and before that on Dutch carrier Martinair.

    As a guest flier, the king worked about twice a month, always as co-pilot. He will now retrain to fly Boeing 737s as the Fokkers are being phased out of service. The 50-year-old father of three and monarch to 17 million Dutch citizens calls flying a “hobby” that lets him leave his royal duties on the ground and fully focus on something else.
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    At least it was only part-time, so nothing too serious...

    full: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-airline-pilot
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  • #2
    Well, KLM is 'Royal Dutch Airlines'... He's just looking after the brand.
    There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.

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    • #3
      The Dutch royals love doing this kind of stuff - one showed up in Afghanistan and didn't tell the embassy.
      Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

      Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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      • #4
        First of all how can one name a plane "fokker"?


        second one, I flew in one it was like it was from the seventies.

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        • #5
          I think the Dutch designed a special Fokker model able to land in muddy terrain. They called it "De Modder Fokker".
          * Modder = Mud in Dutch.
          The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde.

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          • #6
            About time one of those deadbeats held a job.
            Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Dry View Post
              I think the Dutch designed a special Fokker model able to land in muddy terrain. They called it "De Modder Fokker".
              * Modder = Mud in Dutch.
              Didn't Fokker go out of business in the 1990's?
              Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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              • #8
                Is it now called air Fokker 1? har har!

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