The impetus for starting this here blog
Planes My Mom is responsible for my airplane obsession. I was a rambunctious child, she a single parent. For a break she would take me to the Dayton, Ohio airport back in the '70's when they had a roof-top restaurant. There we would share a meal and I would watch the airplanes take off and land. Of course I was not sitting at the table... In Grade School we watched a reel to reel movie titled, "What Color is Your Parachute" that had a woman parachutist. Flying back and forth alone between Ohio and New York as a child of divorced parents. Loads of plastic wings and trips to the cockpit where I was always encouraged to ask questions and be curious. Amelia Earhart Top Gun. "Permission to buzz the tower?" My Father and Step-Mother took me on a drive thru tour of the Air Force Academy. My flight instructor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Uni + my kick-ass roommate. Sadly, I am a flight school drop out. Trains Family members who had train sets The Reverend W....