Some Flying Experiences
Some of my other airplane blogs tell of a few of my flying experiences but here are a few more. I loved airplanes from as long ago as I can remember. I built many, many airplane models and remember setting in the 4 th or 5 th grade at my desk looking at a book on how to fly an airplane and acting like I had the controls while all the other kids were out for recess. At around 14 I rode my scooter to a local airport and paid an instructor pilot to take me up for a short first flight. No way a kid could do that now and not sure how I got away with it then. At 19 (1967) I joined the United States Air Force (USAF) rather than be drafted into the army, remember Viet Nam was going all out at that time. I had gotten a short deferment so I could finish my Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) school at Spartan’s School of Aeronautics in Tulsa, OK. With a new FAA A&P license I asked to get into aircraft electronics in the USAF to broaden my aircraft expertise. I spent 4 years as ...