A Solo Flight – Celebrating Milestones

It’s when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.  – Mike Huckabee I enjoy being a pilot, aircraft and hanger owner, but these joys are accompanied by a fair amount of responsibility.  Even as a private pilot, periodic flight reviews (BFR) and medicals come with the privilege. This […]

Daddy – An Airport Story in Three Parts

“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.”  – Langston Hughes This is the last of three installments of a short story about vision, an airport and flying.  I soloed January 10, 1992 and received my single engine land private pilot  license in June. On July 4, 1992, I flew […]

Dreams – An Airport Story in Three Parts – II

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”  Jean Genet This is a continuation of a previous post.  Enjoy! “The day arrived and on September 14, 1969,  Daddy became a certified private pilot.  He logged 1114.45 hours of flying time over the span of […]

Dreamers – An Airport Story in Three Parts

“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it…”   ― Wilferd Peterson “I turned left onto a half-mile […]

How Stealing Diminishes Generosity

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke “Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As […]