Beam Me Up Scotty wrote:
Kevin Darling wrote:

Thanks. Nice list of pilot actors. On a humorous note, in one second
season episode of Star Trek, you can clearly see Spock use an aluminum
E6B to compute how long it'll take before the Enterprise spirals out
of orbit.

Was that regular aluminum or transparent aluminum???

*spit take* all over the keyboard!

On the topic of actors -- I remember seeing a list of actors
with PPL or better on the back of an aviation book or magazine.
Can't remember where. But a number of the Star Trek actors
are on the list. Ah, wait...the back cover of Rod Machado's
PPL book:

James Arness (marshall dillon!)
Dirk Benedict
Jimmy Buffett (what? you don't think that's an act onstage?)
LeVar Burton (ST:TNG)
Johnny Carson
Tom Cruise
Bob Cummings
Michael Dorn (ST:TNG)
Hugh Downs
Clint Eastwood
Sarah Ferguson (Duchess of York -- helicopters only, I think)
Michael J Fox (altho I bet he's lost his medical now)
Mickey Gilley
David Hartnam
Geore Kennedy
Harriet Nelson (Hi Mom, Hi Dad, Hi Ricky)
Paul Newman
Leonard Nimoy
Susan Oliver
Dennis Quaid
Cliff Robertson
Kurt Russell
Bill Shatner
Jimmy Stewart

Phil Hartman
Dave Coulir

Nimoy's daughters once described traveling with Dad in his
twin all over the US when he was working in theatres.