MY STORY

I am a traveler, oil painter, and amateur photographer. This is my personal site, and a summary of what I am working on this period. Keep in touch!

Love Aerobatics in my Zlin 526F. Sweet Czech build full aerobatic machine. Being an RG, inline six, parachutes, it flies like an eagle. Many hours of awesome flying. She was high maintenance, however. She is with someone else, today. Probably, still scaring the hell out of new pilots and non-pilots.

The world is full of potential and it is up to us to expound on it. With life being short for many of us, we have to make the best of life whether we live to 60 or 100. Never stop distending every day. No holds barred.

Camera, flying, and saving memories. It is sad that only a small percent of the USA population has a pilot’s license. I loved flying since I was a child. Being too poor to afford a car, my family knew I would never fly. Life and God have been good to me. I kept flying and owning a plane on my Christmas list for years. It wasn’t until I was older did my love come to fruition. Was I scared, you ask? Of course, when the instructor removed his body from the plane and told me to take the Cessna 150 around the field three times, landing each time I became very scared. Those memories are still there in my musty brain cells after forty years.

If you haven’t soloed, you should. It really is never too late unless you can’t pass an airman physical. Then it’s too late. The memories of those I have taken up, some for the first time, are burned into my brain. There is a memory for every flight. It is recorded in my log books. After forty years, It helps to go back to the log book in order to regurgitate the memory.

My plan for this website is to recall all the memories of twenty years of publication of my magazine, Fly-Low. My monthly column and perhaps photos of the magazine will be on future pages. The idea for Throttle Forward (online) came from my daughter, Natalie. My publication started in 2000 and continued for almost twenty years.