Growing up in an aviation family, I was always interested in airplanes. I grew up around airports, airplanes, the pilots that flew them and the mechanics that fixed them. So it's no wonder that I became a pilot, a mechanic and made a career in aviation that has lead to becoming the President of one of the oldest aviation organizations in the US, the Antique Airplane Association (AAA). I bought my first camera, a Minolta Hi-Matic F, in 1972 for the princely sum of $76 hard earned dollars. I had earned that money working on the family airport (Antique Airfield near Blakesburg,...more
