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My First Flight Research Paper

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In the year 1967, at the age of three, I experienced my first ride on an airplane. The flight was a landmark event for the following reasons: it was indicative of the climb to success by my father as well as an introduction to my future career as a pilot albeit unknown to me at that stage of the game. My father, John Guatelli, was, is, my inspiration. When I was in my formative years, as well as teens, I heard countless stories about my fathers climb from being born of emigrant Italian parent, in his words, not having five cents to see a movie, to a college educated executive officer of a corporation. Both my mother and father introduced my siblings and I to Christianity and, consequently, religion, God, the importance of faith, and the power of …show more content…

My family was blessed with the rewards of surely the hard work of both my mother and father, but surely the employment of my father made possible other benefits such as affording airline tickets. Twice a year, every Christmas and summer vacation, the entire family flew from the West coast to the East coast to reunite with our relatives. Those transcontinental flights were rather long but unbeknownst to me, hours of inspiration directing to my future. Sometimes its difficult to see the forest through all of those trees. Countless hours staring at the wing of an airliner creating a curiosity that lead to a career is one aspect of the story. Another is opening the apertures of one is eyes to encompass the beauty of the landscape once a perspective only God could view. Jet airliner travel introduced mankind to the eye view of God. The Nazca line in Peru, for example, only from altitude is the beauty perceived. The view out of the airliners window at night showed lines of lights, of varying lengths and angles, paralleling, converging, and diverging, but also joining areas of dense lights, some larger than others, and all made by

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