Putting Dreams to Flight – eBook
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A seven-year-old boy dreamed not only of flying but also of creating the airplanes he would pilot one day. Armed with that dream and a tiny bit of capital, a young and determined Leland Snow made that dream come true. Today, the company he founded, Air Tractor, makes planes of cutting-edge design and of great service to agriculture and firefighting efforts worldwide. His is a classic Texas story of grit, guts, determination and vision: the perfect formula for “putting dreams to flight.”
Description
An autobiography of pilot and Air Tractor founder, Leland Snow.
ISBN 0-915323-17-6
Written by Leland Snow
As told to Al Cleave
While still in his teens, Leland Snow literally rose into the air through his own devices. A generation younger than the wild-haired barnstormers of post World War I entertainment flight, Snow was meticulous about making his planes not only flight-worthy but efficient. Like many gifted people in various disciplines, he tested limits.
Safety and possibility didn’t need to fight each other, he thought. He had a practical purpose in mind – bettering agricultural development.
Barely in his twenties, Leland Snow, with some other flight-hungry fellows, flew to Nicaragua to do a season’s worth of crop-dusting.
Bettering his craft, he’d fly down there a number of times. Although the wages were sometimes minor and the dangers great, he returned with a head full of knowledge and a wealth of problems to solve. A friend of serendipity, he had a mission: to manufacture his own planes. And he met a community that seemed as enterprising as he was Olney, a small town in North Texas. His career would find its home there; and that was where, too, through several reversals of fortune, he’d keep his operation in place.
