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
Includes EN, ES, and PT files
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, in 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.