The people on the ground really do look like ants.” The man looked at him in astonishment and said with disgust, “Those things on the ground ARE ants. The plane hasn’t even taken off.”
I have quite a few friends who wanted to be pilots and actually succeeded in obtaining a flight certificate.
I have always wondered. “Who taught Wilbur Wright, the person who invented manned flight, to fly?
Or what aviation school did Louis Bleriot attend, who gave him his flight certificate?
While flying I always wonder… If I were a pilot, which one of the occupation’s ‘greats’ would I choose as my ideal? I don’t think it would be Baron Richthofen. When I think of Charles Lindberg and what he went through (his child was kidnapped and killed), that doesn’t seem very appealing.
The pilot I admire the most is Saint-Exupery. With his “The Little Prince” and “Night Flight” Saint-Exupery has made me fall in love with the skies more than anyone.
I love the Turkish writer, Mehmet Coral, too, for how he writes about the ground from the air.