Who am I, what am I doing here, why did I create this site, blah blah blah.  Apparently you came here for answers, so I suppose I’d better deliver.  My name is Philip; I grew up around Raleigh, NC, and now reside on the outskirts of Chattanooga, TN.  I’ve been enamored with aviation from about the age of 10… but I never really had the opportunity to pursue it.  Life intervened, I did other things, and it was about thirteen years later when my interest began to rise again.  At that time, I was still telling myself that one day I’d fly… but in the meantime I had discovered a great way to feed my need.

Yes, in the summer of 2003 I went to my first-ever air show.  As I stood there on the tarmac at Quonset Pt, RI, I thought to myself that this had to be the greatest thing in the world.  Since then, I’ve gone to every show I could find the time and funds to run off to.  In the meantime, what started as taking random photos at a show turned into a continuous quest for better photos- and along with that was the desire to show off said photos.  They might not be professional quality sometimes, but for me the real magic was in trying to capture the thrill of a Hornet pulling seven Gs and making clouds, or maybe tweaking the memory of a Merlin thrumming by at full song.

A few years later, I found myself finally moving towards a financial point where I could start pursuing flying.  I set out to learn as much as I could about the training process, and found a few blogs made by student pilots.  And so the seed for this site was formed- after all, my blog would just have to be better with me writing it, right?  As the idea germinated in my head, it kept expanding.  Hey, why not talk about air shows, maybe write up some reviews… and if I’m gonna do that, then I ought to link a gallery to the site to show off my still frames… and eventually, after many weekends and evenings of fighting with CSS, this site was fully born.

So I hope you enjoy my musings here, and if you’re thinking about learning to fly yourself, I hope even more that my tales will give you a good idea of what you can expect to go through.  Enjoy!