I’ve Come a Long Way (With a Little Help from My Friends)

Written by an eleven year old pilot and Jim Graham Online exclusive feature. I am eleven, home-schooled, and fly model airplanes at Edwin Warner Park (in Tennessee) twice a week. My mom saw an announcement in a magazine for one of the park’s programs last year. It was about learning about airplanes and watching some models fly. I didn’t want to go, but we went anyway. I immediately became interested in the airplanes and what was being said to the group of kids about how birds and airplanes are able to fly. There was a demonstration of regular model airplanes flying,…