LANE WALLACE
A City Tour is one of the best inside secrets in aviation. Especially in a T- 34.
The Benefits of Mentoring
Tutoring, timing, and T-34s
THERE ARE MANY THINGS one can complain about, living in a place
where clear skies and sunshine are not the predominant weather
features. On the other hand, putting up with long winters and
gray days does give the hardy folk in places like New England
and the northern Midwest (not to mention Seattle) a particular
appreciation for unexpected gifts of warmth and sunshine from
their usually stern-faced weather gods. Appreciation that tends
to be exuberantly, intensely, and publically shared.
A nice, warm day in March doesn’t elicit much change in the
behavior of folks in sunny, good-weather places like Palo Alto,
California. (I know this because I used to be one of them.) But when
spring arrived in Boston this year with an
unprecedented string of sunny, windless, 75-
to 85-degree weather days, the entire
population appeared to have taken happy
pills—and decided to stay home from work
until the drugs’ side effects had worn off. Or at
least that’s what I concluded when I arrived at
the airport on the first day of spring to find
most of the tied-down airplanes on the ramp
missing and half the hangar doors open, own-
ers gone flying somewhere.
