• Table Of Contents
• Foreword
• Chapter 1 - First Flight
• Profile: Charles J. (Charlie) Boyd
• Chapter 2 - Becoming a Pilot
• Profile: John Myers
• Chapter 3 - Soaring
• Profile: Alcide (Al) Santilli
• Chapter 4 - The Landing
• Profile: Antonio (Tony) Sabino
• Chapter 5 - From A to B
• Profile: Laszlo (Les) Horvath
• Chapter 6 - All of a Piece
• Profile: Christine (Chris) Doig
• Chapter 7 - All Kinds of Air, All Kinds of Flying
• Profile: Carl Ray Smith
• Chapter 8 - Buttoning Up and Getting Going
• Profile: J. William (Bill) Bullock
• Chapter 9 - Helping Out
• Profile: Gerald (Jerry) Hoogerwerf
• Chapter 10 - Making It
• Afterword
• Acknowledgements

Profile: John Myers

When John wasn't at the airport, what did he do?" I asked John Myers' sons Chuck and Dow.

"He went to the airport," answered Chuck.

"And took us with him," added Dow. "He needed the extra hands."

"I can hardly remember a single vacation as a child," said Chuck. "That airport was Dad's life. We grew up there."

Since Chuck is now a professional pilot and Dow, an enforcement officer with Indiana's Department of Natural Resources, expresses regret that he didn't complete his flight training, their father's single-minded dedication to aviation must have drawn them toward flying more than it pushed them away from it.

I knew from personal experience that John Myers was wedded to his job as manager of the Bloomington, Indiana airport. Wedded, as "in sickness and in health"—in his case, in good weather and bad, in lean budget years (mostly) and generous budget years (occasionally), in constructive and corrosive political climates, in accident-free years and years with tragic deaths.