Answer:

aviator

AnswerCrossword Clue
AVIATORHigh flier
AVIATORPilot
AVIATORCockpit occupant
AVIATOROne whose career is taking off?
AVIATOROne getting up
AVIATORLindy, for one
AVIATORHead-in-the-clouds sort?
AVIATOROne skilled in plane talk
AVIATOROne taking off regularly
AVIATORExpert with a joystick
AVIATORJoystick expert
AVIATORBarnstormer
AVIATORProfessional whose career is taking off?
AVIATORJoystick operator
AVIATORPlaying card brand introduced after Lindbergh's flight
AVIATORBirdman, more formally
AVIATORBarnstormer, maybe
AVIATORFlighty sort?
AVIATORCrop duster, e.g.
AVIATORFly guy
AVIATORPost, notably
AVIATORRed Baron, e.g.
AVIATORAce, perhaps
AVIATORPost, for one
AVIATOROne up?
AVIATORFrequent flier
AVIATORJoystick user
AVIATORJohn Wayne, in "The High and the Mighty"
AVIATOROne with wings
AVIATORCertain soloist?
AVIATOROne on the stick
AVIATORPerson with wings
AVIATORFlier
AVIATORCelestial warrior.
AVIATORFlier.
AVIATOROne of the few to whom so many owe so much.
AVIATORBirdman.
AVIATORCalling of the author of "We."
AVIATORSky writer.
AVIATORCalling of jet-ace Captain James Jabara.