I would say the hometown’s big contribution to that would be its location in regards to Oshkosh, the fact that I was able to come up here, not just at AirVenture, but even, during the middle of the winter and go to the museum and see a really great museum, it really helped stoke that fire burning inside me. Ultimately, I would say the number one reason it’s been able to keep flying this time is because it’s had the dedicated professional pilots and all the support networks, whether it’s the engineers, maintainers, the leadership that have been able to craft it towards different emerging mission sets, so that it hasn’t just fallen into one role. I actually moved around quite a bit all over the US, but I was never involved in aviation, other than the fact that I grew up in the space program, lived in the same neighborhood as most of the early Apollo astronauts, went to University of Texas ROTC.
Author: Howard German
Published at: 2025-08-03 20:18:53
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