Before I was a student pilot, there was Texas Air Aces… As I mention in the “About Brett” section here, I’d always imagined myself as a fighter pilot, and was a member of ROTC at the University of Cincinnati for a couple of years until I was disqualified medically. After that, I set my dreams of flying aside for many years because I just couldn’t get excited about flying a Cessna after lusting for jets for so long. But there was always something there…
Fast forward to my 30th birthday, I was coming out of my first marriage to my high school girlfriend and hitting one of “those” age milestones and my older brother wanted to do something nice for me – or rather us – and got us a flight with Texas Air Aces. The aces flew T-34 Mentor USAF trainer aircraft out of David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport near him in Houston in both Air Combat and Unusual Attitude training flights at the time. I wouldn’t start real flight training for a couple of years still, but I had some knowledge from my time in ROTC. However, this was my first flight in a small piston airplane, and I didn’t know enough to even be nervous about it really. In hindsight they let us do things that day that would really trouble my trained instincts today. 
But, it was great. And they created a video for me. It was an awesome 90 minutes, documented in this YouTube video. It has a something to do with my story, but almost nothing to do with the Velocity story, but I’m including it here because it’s about airplanes. I hope you enjoy it.
Loss of N44KK – NTSB
Loss of N141SW – NTSB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76WoxHZRxP8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76WoxHZRxP8
Posted By: Brett Ferrell
Friday September 24th, 1999 at 12:57 PM
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