flying geeks
is it a coincidence that tech geeks jeremy zawodny, phillip greenspun, and mark fletcher all fly airplanes/gliders? doesn’t the time it takes to learn to fly take away from their alpha geekiness? i imagine there must be other techies who also fly for fun. in fact i’m surprised joel doesn’t have an essay about learning to fly in nyc.
when i was younger, one of my dad’s co-workers at ibm took us out flying gliders. then on my following birthday my parents purchased a flying lesson for me at the local county airport. there’s a video of that somewhere that i’d like to see because i can barely remember the experience itself. in the meantime, here are some photos i’ve scanned in from my first and only glider experience.
hamming it up in the cockpit—i was about 11 or 12
getting ready to go up
we’re up, and i believe that’s the new york state thruway
afterwards, a shot of me and dad
Your pilot was Cornelia Yoder, who I worked with at IBM, is a multi-talented person and was a record holding glider pilot. Nuttin’ but the best for you. Oh yeah, one other thing, gosh were cute back then.