{"id":358,"date":"2007-10-26T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=358"},"modified":"2007-10-26T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T07:54:00","slug":"us-teen-shares-his-passion-for-aviation-with-other-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/10\/us-teen-shares-his-passion-for-aviation-with-other-students.html","title":{"rendered":"US teen shares his passion for aviation with other students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Shelby, North Carolina<\/span>: Johnathan Bailey learned to fly before he knew how to drive a car.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been flying my whole life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As long as I can remember.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>The 17-year-old Shelby High student grew up around planes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d his father was in the Air Force and worked at the Shelby airport. Now, he wants to share his passion with his peers and hopefully attract more kids his age to the tarmac.<br \/>Bailey has spearheaded a class to teach basic aviation skills to county high schoolers. Local pilots have offered to donate their time to help teach and guest speakers, including Vietnam pilots, will also make appearances.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every kid that joins gets to fly,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of a select group, but I want to open it up to more people,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bailey said.<br \/>Chris Davidson, the squadron commander for Shelby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Civil Air Patrol, said the experience would change a young person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Once you go up, you very rarely come back down,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. Davidson first flew in 1993 and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I still have my head stuck in the clouds.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>Much of Bailey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life centers on airplanes. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a volunteer at the Carolinas Aviation Museum, has traveled with air shows all over the country and is a member of the Civil Air Patrol of Shelby.<br \/>He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s built relationships with many pilots who will volunteer their time to help teach.<br \/>Jim Zazas is one of those pilots. He met Bailey while flying World War II area aircraft. He currently flies commercially for U.S. Airways and for museums across the nation.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have to pass the torch, so to speak,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Aviation is the way of our future for transportation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">25\/10\/07 Drew Brooks\/Shelby Star, NC, US<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelby, North Carolina: Johnathan Bailey learned to fly before he knew how to drive a car.\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been flying my whole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}