Aerial

A license to fly – just like Buffet!

The flying started before the Speed Graphics camera.  I remember long hours on the train (The Humming Bird) from Birmingham to Pensacola, the smell of peach schnapps on the back porch, and hundreds of yellow  Navy SNJ’s roaring to life early in the morning along the flightline at PNAS – just outside my bedroom window.  At night, the PBY’s would waddle over head with navlights blinking and sailors hanging out the gun ports trying to cool down from the all day training flights out over the gulf.

John W. (grand father) was one of thousands of mechanics who kept these magnificent machines in the air. When I was not on the beach, I was on my box at the fence line watching  “touch and goes” in the shimmering summer heat.

I came down with the flying bug at a very early age and there is no cure.  There was a beautiful yellow Cub parked the Goodyear Blimp hangar in Gadsden.  Every time we went by it, the bug got worse.  As soon as I turned 16, I climbed in behind the controls of anything that would fly – and never looked back.

Grabbing the camera was just a natural extension of sharing the joy of “getting high” with everyone who would look or listen.  Later I found out that Sam Walton (you know who he is) would always fly over potential store locations before making a decision to build or open an new store.

Checking things out from the air certainly made him a wealthy fellow!

If you want a birds eye view of something before you make a decision or want to make the same available to a client, give me call or drop me an email.

Phone 423-342-4653 or toll free 800-381-8214

Or drop me a note via on the “Contact” page above.

Good Selling,
DLW