Air minded

When did people become "air minded", and why?

For me, it was in 1950, when I was about 4, when Dad took me to an RAF
"At Home", at Castle Bromwich Aerodrome and the sight of those beautiful
aircraft soaring and wheeling, high in the sky, and the sound of their
engines as the flew low and fast down the centreline of the runway. I
knew that day that I had to fly.

I never flew, even commercially, until my late 40s. Then I was lucky
enough to be able to afford to have lessons, and soloed a Puchacz shortly
after my 52nd birthday.

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Alex