The best part is, it is positive and interesting to have a thread where the sniping and smart arse commentors can't start a war.
Your stories are what many of us dreamed of as kids, who announced, 'When I grow up I'm going to be a pilot' and when we were spanking new ones, dreamed of flying a Bonanza or 210. Great big airliners were so far off in the future that they were outside our dream zone.