When you are an Air Force brat :)you have inspiration all around you in the various people that you come in contact with on base.
I remember being at Lackland as a kid and a MATS plane with no wings on it was parked across the road from the runway , anyone remember this ?
Anyway my main inspiration came from my grandfather who served in the Navy as a pilot and he would tell me stories of flying the Hellcat and Dauntless
and what great planes they were at the time.


Fred

birth. contrails. flying when i was a kid. we have an airplane museum in my town that i grew up in... i would drag my parents there to buy me little model airplanes. i specifically remember my klm dc10 and lufthansa a300. airliners magazine. looking up. all of the generous pilots that would talk to me in the terminals and let me sit in the left seat. imagination. i don't know. it's just in my blood i guess.

I come from an aviation family. My uncle is a CFI at an airport. My other uncle used to be a US army Blackhawk pilot during the gulf war. My grandad used to fly his plane all the time.

To not be a pilot means I am missing the tradition and not being a part of my family.

When I was reading the page I was skimming fast and I saw the 'birth. contrails and flying........as birth control failed, and kept reading onward, I got to when I was a kid and realized my mistake :D:D:D