Flight this club has wingsFor employees who love to fly, or want to learn, club By Teresa kuhnSince childhood, it seemed a life-threatening disorder would forever groundPrice, who joined Boeing 20 years ago as a flight-test engineer, was bornBut it was the Boeing Employees Flying Association that rescued his dream ofKen Price’s dream of learning to fly.with cystic fibrosis. An experimental double-lung transplant at the University ofWashington would save his life. flight. A nonprofit organization that makes flight training and its airplanes available to members, the flying association, housed across from Boeing’s factory at Renton Municipal Airport in Washington state, is part club, part extended family. With nearly 500 members and 20 airplanes ranging from Cessna 150 and 172 trainers to the more advanced Cessna 182RG and a T210 Centurion, the club offers ground school and flying lessons at Renton and Paine Field, adjacent to Boeing’s Everett plant. The association draws its members from those who love aviation. “Flying in general is a very personally gratifying experience. It teaches you patience, BOEING FRONTIERS / SEPTEMBER 2012 15
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