"Aviation has been a very important part of my life. I didn't
come to it until late in life, but nothing has given me as much
satisfaction or brought me as much renewed intellectual interest as
the business of learning to fly and continuing to build on the
skills that flying requires."
Source: Actor Harrison Ford, who stepped up at
this week's AirVenture 2004 to become the chairman of the EAA's
Young Eagles Program. Ford is an IFR rated, seaplane qualified
pilot who owns several aircraft and has, himself, contributed to
reaching the organization's goal of introducing more than a million
kids to aviation between 1992 and the Wright Centennial in
2003.
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