Are we talking about prior pilots? When you say wings are we talking about pilot wings and or NFO wings? I know AMDOs and ADEOs who were pilots and still wear their wings. That's not what I'm talking about. In regards to an AEDO, they have those who duties are full on Flight Engineers? Meaning they don't pilot the aircraft but fly on the aircraft in support of system functionally. Flight Test Engineers at Pax aren't flying the aircraft. Even on the Lockheed Side, our Flight Test Engineers ride along for functionality support.On the active side, lots of AEDOs (all AEDOs I’m pretty sure) have wings and some are in flight billets. On the reserve side there are a lot of winged AEDOs from the fleet, but also a lot of direct commission ones too.
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