Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I did a little bit of flying in high school, but I've just always been inspired and excited about airplanes.
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
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 learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.
I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
I always liked airplanes, and I decided I was going to go to school to study them.
I was a big aviation buff as a boy.
I love flying planes.
Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.