Archive for April, 2007

Reunion with the sky…

Reunion with the sky - courtesy Skyhawk 23758
On April 5th, 2007 I had a reunion.

A reunion with the sky.

A clear, blue sky and a gentle breeze were my playground. My transportation to this playground was Skyhawk 23758, a Cessna 172 with a “glass cockpit” and an urgent desire to defy gravity. Or was that my desire? Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

I know. I just made a reference inferring that the airplane I flew had feelings.

But don’t they? I wonder what kind of results I’d get if I took a poll, right now, to find out how many pilots assign human characteristics to their flying machines. Assigning some feeling to your airplane surely is Anthropomorphism at its best!

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