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Me at age 11 (1972) in the only active Boeing 247 vintage airliner in the world
On December 9, 2008 AirPigz took its first breath, so today makes three years of trying to make the most unique (and the most bacon centric :) aviation website on the planet. It's been a really challenging road, but it's also been very satisfying. For today, I figured a little state-of-the-nation address was in order so we could all have an idea of where this project is headed going forward. I started AirPigz when I was literally on the edge of bankruptcy (house was in foreclosure) and the future looked very bleak for both me and the entire USA. Things haven't changed all that much for me in last three years (or the USA), but we're hanging in there! We did get the foreclosure stopped, and barely avoided bankruptcy, but wow has it ever been a difficult time.
Before I get to the plan for the future, here's a little history on me an aviation.
I was born in San Francisco in 1961 to parents that both worked for United Airlines. My dad was flying their airplanes and my mom worked in the office. My dad was in a near perfect situation of having the opportunity to fly big and beautiful aircraft while also making plenty of money to continue to pursue his wide ranging aviation interests. That meant that right from the start I was being exposed to sailplanes, skydiving, air racing, airshows, fly-ins, homebuilt aircraft, commercial airliners, military aircraft and on and on.
It's from this incredible aviation exposure as a kid that AirPigz is built on. That, and the fact that as I grew up, I continued to soak up aviation knowledge everywhere I could. Since the internet wasn't around, I learned a lot from aviation books, but honestly, the two biggest publications in my life thru the amazing avgeek decade of the 1970's were EAA's Sport Aviation and the weekly Aviation Week and Space Technology. These two magazines did more to develop my knowledge of aviation than any others... and interestingly, at complete opposite ends of the spectrum.
Me at age 13 learning to fly in a brand new Bellanca Citabria 7KCAB
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