Many children, including myself, can remember looking to the sky as a child and watching the contrails of a passing jet stretch from one horizon to the next.  Where did he come from?  Where was he headed I wondered to myself?  Over two and a half decades ago, my summer mornings and afternoons were spent watching the skies near the edge of the fields where I grew up, waiting for the yellow low-wing crop-duster to return and perform his aerial show.  I would begin waving frantically as the pilot flew by, and wait patiently for him to wave his wings back and forth to the eager young boy below.  To this day, I'm sure that pilot has no idea of the impact he or she had on my life.

 

  Many children's dreams of flight are never realized due to the high costs of operating an aircraft or a lack of local resources to spark an interest in aviation.  The goal of The Eagle Flight is to help children around the world realize their dreams of flight, get them into the cockpit, and register each one as a Young Eagle member.