On Nov 29, 6:25*pm, Alex Potter wrote:
When did people become "air minded", and why?


Dad was an experimental test pilot in the 40s and 50s. I grew up
watching movies of him testing all kinds of exciting aircraft. I
presumed this was a typical profession for a Dad. All our family
vacations involved flying somewhere in a private plane of one kind or
another. I first learned to fly on instruments because, at age 5 or 6,
I couldn't see over the instrument panel. By my early teens I'd
accumulated something like 700 hours of right seat time. A few months
after my 14th birthday we packed off to Elmira, New York where I
soloed after 8 days and 23 flights courtesy of the Schweizer soaring
school.