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I’ve always been fascinated with airplanes. As a kid, I had posters of planes on the walls of my room. In college, I worked as a crew member for an experimental-aircraft festival. As a young father, I took my kids to the airport to play “airplane bingo,” where we’d try to figure out what type of plane was taking off before it passed overhead. When my wife needed a quiet house on Saturdays to give violin lessons, I took the kids to hang out in the National Air and Space Museum.
About ten years ago, with a nudge from my daughter, I decided to learn how to fly a plane myself. Like all new pilots, I started by earning a private pilot’s license that allowed me to fly a plane in visual conditions. Just like driving a car, ...
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