Book/Flight Project: Fly The Airplane

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Have you ever dreamed of making a fresh start, of doing something so amazing that it could change the course of the rest of your life? We hope that our upcoming book, Fly The Airplane, will inspire you to seek and identify your inner strength, and encourage you to follow your own path to happiness, even if that path is not entirely clear to you right now.

Listen to your heart. Live each day to the fullest. Never give up. Just fly your little airplane — and remember that if you don’t like the direction you’re headed, you can always turn around. You have a choice.

The successful outcome of any flight depends almost entirely on the pilot’s ability to maintain control of the airplane, to keep flying it, no matter what happens. That lesson transcends aviation and can be applied to nearly any life situation. We discovered that the training we received as pilots helped us overcome some very difficult challenges in our personal lives, and we hope to share these insights with you in our book.

Our flight around the United States this summer in our 1938 Piper J-3 Cub is our celebration of this personal discovery. Check the blog for updates on our progress along our route. If you’d like to help us along the way in exchange for a signed copy of the book, please visit our Get Involved page or contact us today. We expect to have the book published by the end of December 2012.

Meredith and Dana enjoying some authentic Wisconsin fried cheese curds at EAA AirVenture 2010, on the day they got engaged.

The journey is the destination.

One of my favorite and now well-worn t-shirts offers the following thought: The journey is the destination. I was reminded of that today while listening to a chaplain read a poem during a memorial service this morning for our friend … Continue reading

Fly The Airplane: Soundrack Take #1

Ok, it’s time for a trip playlist! Burned a CD of this for the car today. Lots of meaning here. Stay tuned for more… Fly Over States — Jason Aldean Cost Of Livin’ — Ronnie Dunn Jack Of All Trades … Continue reading

What you see is what you get.

After scrubbing today’s early morning flight lesson due to low clouds and fog, I was hopeful that the forecast for VFR conditions later in the day would pan out when I saw bits of blue sky peeping through the breaking … Continue reading

Feeling sluggish?

Yesterday was just one of those generally blah days for me. We’ve all had them. You know, the kind of day where you just don’t feel like doing much of anything except laying on the sofa under a blanket and … Continue reading

Winner of Free Cub Ride is All Smiles

Thanks to everyone who visited our booth at the Maryland Regional Festival of Flight in Hagerstown today! Pilot Raymond Feliciano, who is based in Hagerstown, left with an extra big smile on his face because he won the free ride … Continue reading