Thanks for your replies WOXOF, always wondered how that chaos at Logan didn't end in...you know...chaos.
Lol'd about the Concorde snippet, would it be wrong to hope that it was a French crew who was forced to wait
My last question, and hopefully you haven't grown tired of answering.
In my life, I've known only three people who have gone on to careers in aviation.
-A childhood friend who, as soon as his mother would let him ride public transportation alone, would go to the airport on Friday and Saturday nights. He figured a way to get on the roof of a terminal and would sit there til it was time to catch the last train home, and watch planes land. He joined the Navy and became an ATC. Last I heard, he's currently an ATC in Orlando.
-My brother played college football at a military university. His football roommate went on to become a USMC aviator, eventually being wrongly accused, and improperly interrogated, in the political witch hunt best known as Tailhook. This aviator could have went to any school out of HS but chose that school because it gave him the best statistical opportunity to fly jets.
-A cousin, who I've long since lost contact with, and who'd rather ride a motorcycle 100 mph than crack a book, left for FLA literally days after being let out of (because he barely graduated) HS. His passion was to fly and he finagled his way, after a couple of years, into a flight school down there. Now, lots of years and flight hours later, he's a pilot for one of the package delivery companies (even after breaking tons of bones due to motorcycle accidents).
In my very small sample size, the prevailing constant is that they all knew, at a very, very young age, that flying, or being associated with flying, was their destiny in life.
Wasn't (Hudson River) Sully a crop duster as a teen? As opposed to the Continental pilot in Buffalo who crashed after taking up flying at 38?
Very long winded way of asking, knowing that your Dad was a Navy aviator and that you knew early on flying was your thing, are aviators born and not bred?
Last edited by August123; 11-10-2009 at 10:31 PM.