Archive for May 30th, 2007

30 May 2007 May 30, 2007
Author: Gail |  Category: Aviation, Flying  | 8 Comments

along the flightline

Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can’t see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that is not marked with boundaries; that’s not a map. We’re not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there’s a reminder that there are a lot worse things that can happen, and a lot greater rewards.

–Richard Bach, television interview

I don’t have any aerial photos to show this time, not because we were grounded by the hazy weather but because I was sitting in the pilot’s seat.

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