The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine. Plato from Phaedrus

Occasionally, while going about life you see something extraordinary, something that makes you take pause and reflect. That happened to me when I looked out of the cockpit and saw the shadow of my airplane in a cloud and encircled in a rainbow. In the hundreds of hours I have spent flying airplanes this is the first time I have seen what pilots refer to as “glory”. This image expresses the freedom I feel being a pilot.

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