Unfortunately, the nearest PPG trainers are a ways away in Pennsylvania (Lancaster/Harrisburg area). Option 1: www.airxppg.com/ Joe is awesome, and I trained with him. Option 2: www.adventureawaitsppg.com/instructional-tandem-flight It's great to get an intro through a tandem trike ride. But they're pretty booked. Option 3: With limited options locally, some folks take a couple weeks to knock out PPG2 training at a destination school. usppa.org/schools/ Happy to chat with you about it. We love getting people in the sport. Nothing like it! It is the coolest (and cheapest) way to get into aviation. Finding/getting the training is the most difficult part for us around here.
The photograph at 1:20 is a screen capture from a digitized newsreel (roll of film). The newsreel was filmed sometime between September 1937 and the end of December 1937. One way Americans got the news in those days (before television was widely available) was to pay about 10 cents to watch a movie at a public movie theater (the town cinema), and a newsreel would be played either before or after the featured movie (also on a roll of film). My point is that many of the people that signed up with the First American Volunteer Group (A.V.G.) in early 1941 (and middle 1941) mentioned that this few seconds of film, which they referred to as "the crying baby at the railroad station" was one of the reasons (in addition to the money) that they had for signing-up with the First A.V.G. By the end of the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Chennault must have decided the First A.V.G. training was complete because that was when he put them on "alert status". Their first air-to-air combat was 18 December 1941. By the end of that day, the people living in and around Kunming, China first began to refer them as "tigers with wings". Three weeks later they were known in the contintal U.S.A. as the [original] Flying Tigers.
(This is Monique from Sean's account....) Way cool! Wow...the hours you must have put into this. Vicki, I hope this made you smile real big! Very sweet!
