I listened to the sport pilots.. "I suspect the things that makes us fly, whatever it is, is the same thing that draws the sailor out to the sea," I heard. "Some people will never und'stand why and we can't explain it to them. If they're willing and have an open heart, we can show them, but ` tell' them we can't."

Do you notice that when these people talk about why they fly and the way that they think about airplanes, not one of 'em mentions travel? or saving time? or what a great business tool this machine can be? We get the idea that those are not really so important, and not the central reason that brings men and women to the skies.. They talk, when we get to know them, of friendship and joy and of beauty and love and of living, of really living, firsthand, with the rain and the wind..