I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.
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I got colored mechanics in the United States Navy Yard for the first time.
I grew up in a Navy family.
I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
I have some eye problems from when I was a pilot.
When I started flying, I realized how enjoyable it was, and flying became my main focus while engineering went on the back burner.
I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.
But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
I was a big aviation buff as a boy.
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.