Quotes please...

Hello all,

I'm working on an article for a regional magazine in California. The
spin of the article is to encourage folks to go down to their local airport
and sign up for that first lesson to get them started on either a sport or
private pilot certificate.

What I'm asking our R.A.P. community for is a concise quote to answer
the question: "Why did you want to learn to fly?"

Please tag your quote with first name, last initial, and either your
state of residence or, if not in the USA, your country code. Sorry, handles
and other cute nicks won't make the grade. If you are familiar with the
business, you know the editor has the final chop on anything that ends up on
the pages.

Go Fly!

Casey Wilson
Freelance Writer
and Photographer

I started flying because:

"...of the challenge," Casey W., CA

"To rise above the bothers of life"
Robert M. Gary
Sacramento, CA

I started flying because:

"I've had a fascination with airplanes since I was a kid"

Will A.
New Milford, CT

Casey Wilson wrote:
Hello all,

I'm working on an article for a regional magazine in California. The
spin of the article is to encourage folks to go down to their local airport
and sign up for that first lesson to get them started on either a sport or
private pilot certificate.

What I'm asking our R.A.P. community for is a concise quote to answer
the question: "Why did you want to learn to fly?"

Please tag your quote with first name, last initial, and either your
state of residence or, if not in the USA, your country code. Sorry, handles
and other cute nicks won't make the grade. If you are familiar with the
business, you know the editor has the final chop on anything that ends up on
the pages.

Go Fly!

Casey Wilson
Freelance Writer
and Photographer

I started flying because:

"...of the challenge," Casey W., CA


I went to the local FBO looking for the guy who was annoying the
population by practicing aerobatics. I was going to read the riot act
to him. The FBO owner came up and asked why I was there. I was too
embarrassed to tell the truth so I blurted out, "Dah. I think I want to
learn to fly. How much is that?" He told me to take an intro lesson.
As part of the lesson, I actually made the plane take off! I
remember saying to myself, "This is really cool and I CAN do it."

"To be able to escape the congestion of the Bay Area on a moment's
notice"
Jonathan S., CA

I learned to fly in order to scratch a lifelong itch...

Now, of course, I know that it's a spot I can't reach !

Jay B
Chandler, AZ

Because...I had to do it. The freedom of a bird, the glorious sunrise, the perfect landing. Such a simple thing, to fly;
such a hard thing, to fly!

Dan D. Kalamazoo, MI

"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote in message news:uC3bg.6047$343.822@trnddc06...
Hello all,

I'm working on an article for a regional magazine in California. The spin of the article is to encourage folks to
go down to their local airport and sign up for that first lesson to get them started on either a sport or private
pilot certificate.

What I'm asking our R.A.P. community for is a concise quote to answer the question: "Why did you want to learn to
fly?"

Please tag your quote with first name, last initial, and either your state of residence or, if not in the USA, your
country code. Sorry, handles and other cute nicks won't make the grade. If you are familiar with the business, you
know the editor has the final chop on anything that ends up on the pages.

Go Fly!

Casey Wilson
Freelance Writer
and Photographer

I started flying because:

"...of the challenge," Casey W., CA

On Thu, 18 May 2006 19:08:10 GMT, "Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com
wrote in uC3bg.6047$343.822@trnddc06::

I started flying because:

I wanted to dwell in the three dimensional world, and rise above the
smog and congestion of ground-bound humanity groveling below in the
heat and dust. I found a challenging and logically ordered discipline
that required total concentration liberating me from the annoying
worries circulating in my head, as well as speedy and enjoyable
transport with breathtakingly rapturous vistas among the cottony
turrets and endless panoramas.

-- Dighera, Los Angeles.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee has given my reasons to fly better than
I can. I'll copy HIgh Flight for you. Anthony W: North Carolina (PP
SEL INST, with a couple of thousand hours wrapped inside a M20J).

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

How many words? I don't think I could do it in a one liner.

On Thu, 18 May 2006 19:08:10 GMT, "Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote:

Hello all,

I'm working on an article for a regional magazine in California. The
spin of the article is to encourage folks to go down to their local airport
and sign up for that first lesson to get them started on either a sport or
private pilot certificate.

What I'm asking our R.A.P. community for is a concise quote to answer
the question: "Why did you want to learn to fly?"

Please tag your quote with first name, last initial, and either your
state of residence or, if not in the USA, your country code. Sorry, handles
and other cute nicks won't make the grade. If you are familiar with the
business, you know the editor has the final chop on anything that ends up on
the pages.

Go Fly!

Casey Wilson
Freelance Writer
and Photographer

I started flying because:

"...of the challenge," Casey W., CA


GeorgeC