The love of flight, where it all began

Contrails in the sky

Lying on your back on the lawn and looking skyward. The beautiful blue sky pierced by the contrails of a jet.

Did you ever gaze skyward and see the white contrails from an airplane soaring high in a clear blue sky and wonder what adventure the pilot and passengers aboard that craft were headed towards?

Well I have, I remember lying on the ground as a young boy and staring upwards, just dreaming about the adventure.

Now, I am not a young man. This started back in the 1960’s, when air travel was still exotic and luxurious. My knowledge of aircraft was based on the “Adventures of Johnny Quest” on Saturday morning cartoons. And of course by building model airplanes from plastic kits.

Although this was not my boyhood room, (we only had one TV for the whole family!), the ideas was similar. I could lie in bed and stare at my ceiling and imagine the dogfights going on above my head.

It Becomes a part of you

All through grade school I imagined my self piloting a real aircraft. I had hopes of joining the military to learn to fly Jets.

As I got older, I began building and flying RC (Remote Controlled) airplanes. Now most commonly referred to as drones.!