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Les Abend

Les Abend
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Contributor Les Abend is a retired airline captain on the Boeing 777, a contributing editor to sister publication FLYING Magazine with his Jumpseat column and the author of the novel Paper Wings. He also serves as an aviation analyst for CNN.

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