a flight 39 years in the making

Thirty-nine years later and Kitty Hawk Kites still honored a “wind check’, which is kind of like a rain check. Edie Holsopple and her sister finally got to finish the flying they started on a not-so-windy day back in 1976. Bill Lohmann of the  Richmond Times-Dispatch has some fun telling the story.

Edie Holsopple in flight. Photo Kitty Hawk Kites
Edie Holsopple in flight. Photo Kitty Hawk Kites

“They didn’t plan to take so long between flights, but the receipt went missing and they forgot about it — until Holsopple and husband, Curt, were moving from one house to another in Hopewell last year. There, hidden on a bookcase, was the little flight handbook from all of those years ago with a brochure tucked inside with the receipt stapled to it.

Holsopple was 22 back then; she is 61 now. Yet, her first reaction upon finding the receipt was, “Let’s do it!”

 

[box type=”bio”] Thirty-nine years later and still a wonderful flight. Get the details here.[/box]