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By General Aviation News Staff · December 8, 2014 ·

Mission Aviation Fellowship pilot Dave Forney submitted this photo from Uganda noting kids everywhere love airplanes.

 Children.Love.Planes.07 - I love serving people in remote communities on the wings of MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship).  It seems that no matter where we fly, or how remote the place, the children are always fascinated by the plane.  Here, on an extended stopover in Arua, Northwest Uganda, an entire busload of school children showed up on a field trip to see the parked plane.  They were thrilled when I opened it up and let each one take a turn sitting in the pilots seat!  The big white smile says it all—you’d have thought they each won a ticket to the moon!

Dave Forney, a pilot for Mission Aviation Fellowship, says: “It seems that no matter where we fly, or how remote the place, the children are always fascinated by the plane. Here, on an extended stopover in Arua, Northwest Uganda, an entire busload of school children showed up on a field trip to see the parked plane. They were thrilled when I opened it up and let each one take a turn sitting in the pilot’s seat! The big smile says it all — you’d have thought they each won a ticket to the moon!”

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  1. Star Novak says

    December 9, 2014 at 6:06 am

    Thanks for sharing Dave!

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