Cessna 150

And then he ate an airplane.

A Cessna 150, the little two-seater that they teach people to fly in.

He cut it up.

He ate it piece by piece.

And it was really a privilege to be from 1986 to 1996 with the B-1 program.

And to bring that forward to the present, though, I'm a Cessna 150 owner and pilot, and that's what I'm current in.

So, your VMAX is maybe a little bit less than the 150, but...

I get a giggle every time I fly.

Or gray.

I have one on video as big as a Cessna 150, which to me, that would be the seraphine that you hear about in the Bible.

I've been gathering this data and not sharing it publicly for years.

I have a lot of stuff like the flying saucers.

And Hyenafer came in with 100 freaking dollars.

Says, 30 years ago, today, I took my first flying lesson at David Wayne Hooks Airport in a Cessna 150.

Hyenafer, way to go, dude.

Three decades of conquering the skies.

Yeah.

So culture, it varies so much depending on the airframe itself, whether it's the Cessna 150 or the Piper, the Super Cub culture to the jet culture, how we fly airplanes, how often we train and how we maintain them.

So when I came to you with this, this title or this topic, it was, we're about to face a culture of T a TBO culture in the Meridian world.

And well, And for all the piston guys, don't get excited.

So at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, we used to have an aviation program there.

This was probably my fifth lesson in the high-performance Cessna 150.

And of course, in doing the mag check, I actually turned it briefly to off by mistake and quickly, you know, about half a second, got it back on.

And my flight instructor's eyes like lit up.

Wow.

I started flying here, my first airplane ride, my first helicopter ride, uh, my first solo flight in a little Cessna 150 was on Runway 15.

Well, bittersweet for a lot of people, and the president of the Airport Authority says that although there are these massive changes, what they want to remain the same is the experience that travelers come when they come here.

Many, of course, describe Burbank Airport as one that is easy to manage-