Our August 2018 e-Newsletter asked the following question:
How Were You Introduced to Aviation?
Here are the results:
Other: 43%
Family: 38%
Military: 11%
Media: 5%
Airshow: 3%
Young Eagles: 0%
Here are the additional comments:
• I went to the airport and took lessons.
• My Dad was Army Aviation, but it was not until I flew with an old classmate in his Cherokee 180 that I fell in love with flying.
• My dad.
• Civil Air Patrol.
• Living on a farm where crop dusters flew Stearman biplanes.
• Our minister.
• Since I was a child, but I did not have time or money. Now I do, and I am greatly enjoying it.
• A friend of my father’s took me up when I was 10.
• Stopping by the airport and watching planes take off and land.
• Just signed up for lessons at 17.
• Neighbor gave me an airplane ride.
• Personal interest.
• Friend with an airplane.
• Aviation movies as a kid.
• Watching GA airplanes fly overhead when I was a kid living in Long Beach west of the airport. In my early 30s I decided to learn to fly and did so at the old (now nonexistent) Rancho California Airport where I learned crosswind procedures super-well. 🙂
• I grew up around Air Force bases through my father, a career NCO.
• Fascination of flight.
• “Steve Canyon” comics.
• Grew up next to a grass strip airport.
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