“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I love flying airplanes. One of my uncles took me flying in his private plane when I was 6 or 7 years old and I can still see the way the ground looked from up high, and this more than 40 years later. The entire experience was wonderful.

When I was 18, I considered joining the Air Force to get my wings, but I worn glasses, then as now, and I was told that I could not fly jets with glasses. This made me sad. My father had flown for the Army Air Corp in World War II and I had hoped to follow in his footsteps – it was not meant to be. I would need to wait awhile longer for my “magic carpet”. More >