that incident and wanted to share it with you. I have also described it in the chapter on childhood and youth in my book, 'My Life Where I Left Off'. And so my sky-borne aspirations came to an end, but my love of airplanes was undimmed. As I see it, flying is the world's safest form of travel. I am a businessman, striving to develop the Turkish economy and Turkish industry and compete with the rest of the world. We have foreign partners and international companies; consequently I travel frequently. And I always use Turkish Airlines on those trips of mine. Everything else aside, I can experience the atmosphere of my own country even at tens of thousands of feet high in the sky. Still, when I see the cockpit, I sometimes say to myself: "Sakip, you are going to sit there now, you are going to fly this giant plane through the sky and the whole world is going to be yours." Even the thought of it brings back memories of that Turkish Aviation Society course in Adana. But life takes people in different directions. That's the way it is. Perhaps it was the endless appeal of the sky that prompted me and my family to make endless investments. In any case I turned my ardent desire to pilot a plane into business