One character with this profession gets bailed out by understudy Ronnie Clarke after failing to rescue a girl in Tasmania  in Nevil Shute's novel The Rainbow and the Rose.
One character with this profession gets bailed out by understudy Ronnie Clarke after failing to rescue a girl in Tasmania  in Nevil Shute's novel The Rainbow and the Rose. A Buenos Aires-based company headed by Riviere hires several of them,  including the protagonist, Fabiene, in another novel. A person with this job muses "I balanced all, brought all to mind, the  years to come seemed waste of breath" and counts himself among (*) "Kiltartan's poor." A drawing of a snake bookends a  novel in which a person with this job meets an alien from an asteroid in the Sahara Desert. Steve Deever is falsely accused of  shipping damaged cylinder heads, thus killing 21 people with this profession, in Arthur Miller's All My Sons. One of these  characters says "I know that I shall meet my fate / somewhere among the clouds above" in a Yeats poem. For 10 points, name this  profession shared by an Irishman who foresees his death, the narrator of The Little Prince, and Antoine-de-Saint Exupery.
One character with this profession gets bailed out by understudy Ronnie Clarke after failing to rescue a girl in Tasmania  in Nevil Shute's novel The Rainbow and the Rose.
pilot [or airman or other synonyms; accept mailman or synonyms in the second sentence; accept specific kinds of  pilots, like fighter pilots]  4