• 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: Tony Sabino

hen an elderly man in a suit walks into the office of Soar Minden at the Minden-Tahoe Airport in Nevada, what Tony Sabino sees is a wallet. When an impecunious young flyer walks in, what Tony sees is someone in need of cheap housing, a free meal, and the loan of a car. In both cases, he responds accordingly.

Tony has been the owner and manager of Soar Minden since 1988, and has kept it afloat—or aloft—all that time, against a not-always-friendly airport management and in the face of competition from another soaring operation on the field (an operation that folded in 2004). He is hard-nosed businessman and benevolent father-figure rolled into one. The young and the old, the well-off and the not-so-well-off, the Japanese and Europeans and Americans, all in search of good soaring, keep coming back to Soar Minden—I among them.