Category Fall 1997

KIDS WILL BE KIDS

Me , (16) and my friend who is a girl, (15)  were on a flight to Haiti. We were all going, my family, her family, and a couple other families who were friends with us as a  missionary group. When…

Ready To Jump

My friend and I were going on a skydiving trip at a local airport. She had never jumped and I was trying to teach her. She seemed pretty confident until it came time to make the actual jump. When she…

L’Chaim!

The flight left Tel Aviv at 1:00 A.M. . . .already exhausted, I setteled into my window seat. As I was fighting to stay awake, a beautiful woman in her forties walked up and took the aisle seat beside me.…

De-iced

I was on my way to Los Angeles to visit a woman I had been dating. As luck would have it, snow was falling heavily and my flight was delayed. Having a habit of always looking for the prettiest women,…

Bored With The Movie

My girlfriend and I decided to go to Los Angeles on vacation. Since it was a last minute idea, the only flight we were able to get was a red-eye (which would prove to be to our benefit later on).…

Instrument Flight Plan

Victoria and I had recently renewed our relationship after almost 20 years apart. We had been invited to Ft. Meyers by some friends for a BASE jumping trip and to celebrate New Years. We had been in the air for…

Mail Run

My boyfriend was flying a mail run between Presque Isle Maine and Boston Massachusettes at the time. Occasionally, he would do this run without a co-pilot — these were my favorite times, of course 🙂 He and I had completed…

FAA Checkout

I had just passed my FAA checkout in the afternoon. Tracey couldn’t wait to get me alone “up there”. I rented a Cessna 152 and we left the airport about 4:00. Cruising up the beaches we repositioned ourselves to give…

Thumbs Up

It was a day from hell. We took off from Detroit, and after 1/2 hour in the air the plane was turned around with hydraulic problems. We landed in Detroit with emergency vehicles on the runway. After getting re-booked into…