"I haven't lost one second's sleep, " says 777 pilot and union spokesman Herbert Hunter.

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"I haven't lost one second's sleep, " says Herbert Hunter, who's a 777 pilot and a union spokesman.

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The European Union is paying for a pilot processing-plant in the town.

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"He will surprise you because he doesn't look like he's tough, " says Steve McPhail , a pilot and former vice president of the Southwest pilots' union.

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Still, the European Union is trying to get its member countries to try something like this, and a small pilot project will be launched in Belgium in September.

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United Airlines pilot Bob Giuda, also a New Hampshire state representative, is circulating a resolution this month among the various union councils that calls for the government to let pilots have guns.

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