Daily Archives: September 30, 2014

 

Sometime in my youth my father taught me, “if you want to be a success in life, help others make their dreams come true.”

 

Today I lost a dear friend, Scott Hughes.  Scott taught me to fly powered parachutes, and I never saw anyone who could fly them quite like he could.  Today he is flying freer and higher than ever before.  My dream since childhood was to be a pilot, and I wanted to learn to fly everything that went into the air!  A lot of that dream came true, and Scott was big part of it. Scott sponsored Mark Kettenhofen and I when we did the second America from 500 Feet book.  I will always cherish the time we had in Wharton with him, the flying community won’t be the same.

 

I miss flying every day, but I’ll miss it more now!  Thanks for my wings Scott, safe landings my friend, you deserve it!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

 

Photo Note Image by Mark Alberhasky, of me flying the Predator PPC that Scott designed and built for me.