In my childhood I was engaged in aircraft modelling. After first flight of free fly model, first loop, I understood, that I wanted to test real flight, to feel the air stream through the control stick of my airplane. When I was learning in high school, I started to fly in aero club. Member of… Continue reading Oleg Shpolianskii – The First Flight (RU)
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Mikhail Mamistov – The First Flight (RU)
When I was 5 years old, I had seen an interesting movie about military pilots of the 2nd World War, and I decided to become a pilot. Reading books about military pilots increased my desire to become a pilot. In school, I studied the basics of aerodynamics and piloting in “Teenage Space club”. In 1982,… Continue reading Mikhail Mamistov – The First Flight (RU)
Chris Burkett – Global Stars (GB)
I developed a passion for aviation from about the age of ten. Nobody in my family flew – but before I was born my grandfather worked in the Air Ministry, and narrowly avoided being killed in the R101 airship disaster. As a lad I pleaded with my parents to take me to the big airshows… Continue reading Chris Burkett – Global Stars (GB)
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Chris Heames – Global Stars (GB)
Christopher Victor John Heames grew up in Swindon and joined the Air Training Corps, a UK youth development organisation in 1966. This organisation is established to develop air mindedness in the next generation. Because Swindon had, in those days a host of Royal Air Force stations around, it it was possible to fly on a… Continue reading Chris Heames – Global Stars (GB)
Adam Shaw – Captens (FR)
Unable to fly for the military because of a dodgy left eye, I became a foreign correspondent for UPI in France, West Africa, Belgium and Italy at the age of 22. Followed a stint at the Washington Post during Watergate. (Bernstein still owes me at least a carton of cigarettes) As a freelancer, I then… Continue reading Adam Shaw – Captens (FR)