to do that sort of precision flying had my life taken a different course. I am not sure, however, that I could have pulled 7.5 Gs and not passed out. Lagoon rides make me sick now.

My father was a Naval Aviator before he married my mother and decided to become a lawyer. He maintained a love of flying his entire life and I grew up with his stories of flying in the Navy. For a long time, I thought I was destined to be a pilot but it did not turn out that way.