Did He ever go back and get that hour on His own or not. That would be a shame to miss that license for 1 hour. My Dad tried to enlist for WWII, but He had polio when He was a young child and they wouldn't allow him to enlist. He did get a private license in biplanes like Great Lakes Trainers and other biplanes, and finished in a J-3 Piper Cub doing His work for navigation. Dad loved to fly, but I learned later that Mom did NOT want him to fly. He used to sneak off for some flying lessons until He got his license, but He forgot one thing. When He would get home late, Mom would notice marks in the back of his shirt from the parachute straps and Mom would give him you know what. I still have his log book. He finally gave up, so when I got bigger He taught Me how to fly radio Control aircraft, and I still do, but Dad is in heaven I hope still flying now. Since Dad couldn't enlist He got a job at Wright Field Airbase at what now is Area B, where the Air Force Museum is here. He was an instrument technician. We almost loss Dad. They bought the early B-17's to Wright Field for testing and Dad was scheduled to go up in a test flight, but He had caught a very bad cold, almost pneumonia, so they had Dad stay home and they scheduled someone to take his place. These were not B-17's that were ready for production yet, so they were called B-299's.
Someone forgot to go through all of the takeoff manual, and when the pilot tried to takeoff when the speed was enough, he pulled the elevator for takeoff it would not move. The lock on the elevator was never unlocked so the pilot didn't get any angle on the elevator to help it climb to get off of the ground. I forget how many were killed, but I was glad to find out Dad missed that test flight.

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That is a neat story. Thanks for posting it. The flight your Dad was on with him sounded like a pretty neat flight, but I probably would have passed out or lost anything I had since the previous night.

I've hardly ever seen James, and I'm like you; not real crazy about "maverick". I wasn't too crazy with the second "Top Gun" movie either.

I thought I had seen where they did have some Americans Nurses over there for injured pilots. Might be thinking about some other place.

What do you mean she flew with the Flying Tigers? In China? I had an Uncle that flew the Hump taking cargo to the Chinese when the Japanese was attacking them.

We can still imagine things.

I laughed so hard at this I had to pause it and go to the rest room - - - sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1iZtBM23bY

OH, she is good. I wish I wasn't 81. She is cute too!

https://biggeekdad.com/2012/01/dance-like-nobodys-watching/

Way to go Tradio! Great captures.

OHHH, heck yeah! I'm with you.

I don't see a compliment.

I use to, but now it's Firefox.

It is hard to keep dry eyes listening to this. Beautiful Sisters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dszpVNJIklM

PLEASE DON'T SEND THIS TO THE ATTIC. IT ISN'T AN ARGUMENT ABOUT EACH OTHER. PLEASE, I'M DONE.

Jerry, this has been a major problem for decades. I drove all over the continental US, except for Washington and Idaho, for 28 years (1979 to 2007) and when you are in an 18 wheeler pulling a 53 foot trailer or Double trailers with a full load making 80,000 lbs for the tractor, trailer, and cargo, you got over being worried about going over many bad bridges, especially in the north east (no offense). PLEASE DON'T SEND THIS TO THE ATTIC. It has always been the fault of our politicians not providing the funds to do the necessary maintenance. This applies to airports, railroads. Also, the government complaining about Social Security running out of money at a certain time. I have heard it for years, so has the rest of us. Maybe they shouldn't have taken our money out of SS to use on something else, and never paying it back. If we did those things we would be in court waiting to find out how long we would be in prison and how much our fine was. We have let them get away with too much.

Wow Mark. That was beautiful. Thanks for posting it.