I remember always being
fascinated with flying.
Like many children, I dreamed
of flying when I was young.
But I didn't know at that time
that my child’s play would
take me to the sky and beyond.
So I started flying planes
at a very young age, as a teenager.
Before that I flew flight simulators.
And before I had either of those,
I had to make my own.
So we did, my brother and I
we made our own little airplane cockpit
out of cardboard and
that was our airplane
which we flew all around
the world in our heads,
and it was something
that we loved dearly.
At the age of 18, I joined
the Royal Canadian Air Force
as a fighter pilot
and then as a test pilot.
And my brother?
He too became a fighter pilot.
We had the chance actually
to fly over Canada together,
just as we always dreamed
of doing when we were kids.