"Why did you want to learn to fly?"

To fly, one must learn to fly.

The human desire for flight extends into our history through DaVinci and the
beyond the legend of Icarus. Until the 20th century no man, however
great--President, King, Pharoah, Emperor, Caesar, nor all their
armies--ascended to the Footless Halls to soar through the heavens and view
the world beneath him. No temple, tower, mountain or pyramid offered them
the view or transport afforded what can be accomplished for $50 in a Cessna
152.

We are reasonably certain, however, that these great men pondered and
yearned for the experience of flight just as we ourselves have and do. We do
not question why they yearned. To fly just once is to experience that which
nearly all men and women in the vast course of human history have missed; a
significance, however, that tends to be secondary to the experience itself.

Chris Gattman
Private Pilot
Portland, Oregon