Other than Snoopy...?

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The original "I don't know it all" of aviation.
Besides Snoopy, are there any other popular cartoon characters who had a pilot/aviator persona?
 
Lauchpad McQuack! Scrooge McDuck's Pilot in Duck Tales!

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Per Wikipedia, he's a lot like me :rofl:

Launchpad McQuack first appeared as Scrooge McDuck's pilot in the DuckTales cartoon series. He later appeared in the spin-off series Darkwing Duck as Darkwing's sidekick.[9] He is usually depicted as brave, good-hearted, and incredibly dim-witted. While a skillful pilot, he is very bad at landing and almost always crashes instead but, to his credit, he and his passengers always survive such crashes, and he takes a strange sort of pride in being able to crash any imaginable aircraft ("If it's got wings, I can crash it!" he has proudly proclaimed). In one episode, he has a checkbook of all the vehicles he has crashed (including a submarine).
 
Warner Bros' Marvin the Martian is on the Mars Rover Spirit and the launch patch. I forget which one is on Opportunity - Taz Devil maybe?
 
I remember this one when I was a kid.

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Spin it
Let's begin it
Bear 'n grin it
When you're in it.
You can win it
In a minute
When you spin it, spin it, spin it!
So spin it!
Tale Spin!

Oh-ee-yeah (Tale Spin)
Oh-ee-yoh (Tale Spin)

Yep, that's gonna be stuck in my head the rest of the week.

Mustn't forget the X-Men:

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Johnny might have had the jet, but Race Bannon was the pilot. I wanted to grow up to be him, but was insufficiently chisled.
 
A tip-tanked F-100 and the X-3 operating in the polar regions. Fascinating.

I know, not the most accurate. I love the era of packaging, imagery though. I think an artist buddy of mine calls it stylistic realism or something.
 
I know, not the most accurate. I love the era of packaging, imagery though. I think an artist buddy of mine calls it stylistic realism or something.

IIRC, Milton Caniff was a stickler for technical accuracy in his daily cartoons. The comic book is "Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon," so it's likely to have been licensed out and produced without Caniff's guidance.

"Steve Canyon," in the later years, also regularly featured a main character who flew a common GA aircraft (Piper Cherokee).

Ron Wanttaja
 
At some point I had the entire series run of that on a hard drive. I wonder if I could find it again...
Amazon has it for sale. My local library has it on DVD as well. I already put the request in. So excited :)
 
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I'm still waiting for my spacecraft in a suitcase.
 
I didn't see anybody mention Clutch Cargo. My kids loved that program.
 

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"Steve Canyon," in the later years, also regularly featured a main character who flew a common GA aircraft (Piper Cherokee).

That was Bitsy Beekman, a pal of Steve's ward Poteet Canyon. Her airplane was "Bitsy's Bug".
 
Terry and the Pirates. Another Milton Caniff strip. And I think I'm still dealing with the pirates in real life. :D
 
Trixie...Speed Racer's girlfriend flew a helicopter.
Hayata from the Space Patrol in Ultra Man...which is based on a Japanese comic which is close to a carton.
Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon
Sulu...Star Trek TOS was made into a carton.
 
G.I. Joe cartoons had lots of aircraft.
MASK had cars that transformed, some into aircraft.
Transformers cartoons.
Thunder Cats I want to say had them as well, but I am not sure...
I seem to recall Porky Pig flying a biplane from time to time as well.
 
Bullwinkle Moose (a couple of images of him) and of course Rocket J. Squirrel

Bullwinkle and Rocky!!!

Boris Badenoff and Natasha!!!

The crazy captain....what was his name??? Remember upsidedownium?
 
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