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If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.

I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot.