It's a lot of different people, all at the start of their own story.

I always love our fall issue.

It's the last issue of the year, and there's just so much inspiration there.

This actual issue goes to NBAA, which is happening this week, and it's debuted at the NBAA bass show out in Las Vegas.

So that's really where this starts to get seen.

According to Jacob,

But I am looking at a picture hanging in my new office of horses pulling an earth-moving scraper behind them, a bunch of old-looking cowboys, and that is on the brickyard.

So my family, the Pede family, was part of the infrastructure crew that built the Indy 500 with horses.

He put it this way.

It's the industry family reunion.

It's actually the family reunion you look forward to going to and have really no regrets about usually when you come home.

It's all in good cheer because everybody's there for, for the same passion, same reasons.

It is the greatest celebration of aviation on, uh, on this planet.

[static] ... doing a procedure today.

We're doing the procedure at Puckaway Lake.

And Jacob, who's seen a lot of aviation events, had some advice for anyone planning to make the trip to Oshkosh for the first time.

Yeah

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I just like to fly and I like to control it.

I like, I like all the good things, you know, the recreation side.

But, um, really it's, it's bringing people together and watching that grow.

And then on the youth side, when I got into AVnation, and that's a whole story on its own, but, um, 'cause i- and we can go over that later if you'd like, but, but I didn't, I, I never came from flight training academia or never, you know, rural Iowa didn't have those opportunities to, to go get in flight training or a program or even a Civil Air Patrol might have existed, but nobody ever told us about it.

And, um, so we never, you know, did that.

... right? Somehow.