I always loved airplanes from the time I took my first flight in a TWA
Connie from NY to SF at the age of three. In junior high and high
school I would sit in class and draw pictures of airplanes in my
notebook. I spent hours reading books about aviation, my favorites were
"Fate Is The Hunter, and "The High And The Mighty" by Ernest K. Gann. I
almost got a job at an FBO at Teterboro as a line boy when I was 15,
but they decided they couldn't hire me because of my age. I was so
disappointed that I gave up thinking about learning to fly for about 20
years until I took my two kids to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome and we
took a ride in an old bi-plane there. That flight rekindled my love of
flying and 18 months later I was a private pilot.