Sky King was also watched at my home when I was a kid. It was sponsored by NABICO and never missed by me; always watched it. I caught the flying fever, and my love for Cessnas, from watching this show on TV. Went to flying school after, high school, but didn't make it as a pilot for medical reasons. Still, I was able to pass the fever to my two son's and one of them is flying today. I was shocked when I heard about Kirby Grants' death, in an automobile accident, on his way to watch the Challenger lift-off from cape Kennedy.(This I heard as I watched the Challenger lift-off and explosion, on 1-28-86). As a child growing up in Brooklyn N.Y., he was my hero; and the Cessna...I'm still crazy about them...especially the twin engine. Something spooky you should know. I was designing the "Song bird" twin engine Cessna for the Microsoft Flight Simulator, back in Dec. 26, 2003, when I suffered a massive heart attack at the age of 52. I stay away from Flight Simulator now but I wish they would bring back Sky King. I'd be a kid again. Oh,yes, I was born Oct. 5, 1951.
