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    612-822-4611

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The Gift: The Beginning

The Gift: The Beginning

Trahan, Mike

Paperback

Series: Gift, Book 1

Biographies GeneralAviation Instruction

ISBN10: 1516975855
ISBN13: 9781516975853
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Aug 19 2015
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
From my earliest memory I have been fascinated with airplanes. I don't know where this fascination came from, but it was always there. When I was eight or nine years old I started building model airplanes. I began with the balsa wood and pa-per models that were powered by rubber bands. I soon graduated to the control line models that were powered by small gasoline engines. I spent hundreds of hours flying those things round and round. I was born during WWII, so a vast number of movies about air combat were there to watch while I was growing up. I probably saw every airplane movie ever made. One movie, Aviation Cadets, was about some men who went through Air Force Pilot Training. I had always wanted to go flying, to see what it was like up there, and I finally had the opportunity, one summer day in 1957. That one flight convinced me that being a pilot was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and it led to a very enjoyable and exciting forty-five year career in aviation. I invite you to come along with me, and share my expe-riences as I learned to fly, built my flying time, and achieved more advanced pilot credentials, through high school and college. I was determined to get into the U.S. Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training. This is the story of how I got there.

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