The Persistence of Possibility
Aviation marks perhaps the most breathtaking confluence of man’s intellect and passion. It is the poetry of magnitude expressed in the language of superlatives: fastest, highest, farthest, longest, stealthiest, deadliest. The inveterate aviator is invariably numbed by the sheer preponderance of supremacies. Occasionally, however, the ambient din of technological, aspirational, and regulatory excesses is punctuated by an instance of sublime simplicity, and the whole of the aviation sphere—if only for a moment—is reminded that freedom is flying’s first blessing.