Pilot

Aviation careers start with long days at low pay

Students scared off by huge tuition and low entry-level pay

Our most-decorated soldier was lost to history, though hailed as ‘the deadliest air fighter who ever lived’

‘We flew in false teeth and eyeglasses’

As a child in Hitler’s Germany, he started gliding. ‘He hated marching, so he got into flying.’

I watched the pilot of the new Melrose Place (which may or may not be the version that finally airs) over the weekend, and don’t really know what to say about it. It seems closer to the style of original than the new 90210 does, and unlike that revival, this one wants to start off on a high melodramatic note. Though that may not be a good thing: it just points up the ways in which it falls short of the original’s wonderfully insane Aaron Spellingosity. But what really struck me about this new show is that I just don’t feel like hanging with any of these characters, and the ones I hate the most are the ones who are supposed to be the “likable” ones. Maybe that will change when the series starts.