The Journey By Hayden White
Sunday, September 9, 2018. To most of you, this is just another day, but to me, this was a day I will never forget. I come from a family of aviators, but it wasn’t until I was 13 that I became interested in it myself. My Great Grandpa got into aviation from the G.I. Bill, and my Grandpa and Uncle both grew up around it. My Dad got into aviation from the Aviation Merit Badge through the Boy Scouts. For years I was happy just going to the airport whenever I could with my Dad and Grandpa and hanging out, but one day I decided I wanted to start flying. My Grandpa has two airplanes, a 1947 Piper J-3 Cub which has been in the family for 50 years, and a 1958 J-35 Bonanza. I started flying in the Cub because thousands of pilots have their primary flight training in that airplane. Both my Dad and Grandpa are CFI’s (Certified Flight Instructors), so they would take me up and have me make coordinated turns, keeping the ball in the middle while managing and maintaining airspeed. After the summer months, it started to cool down and there were not many days Border:
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