twist f. bükmek, sarmak, bükülmek, burmak, ters anlam vermek i. bükülme, sarılma, burma, düğüm, dönme, dönüş, değişiklik
136 FLYING GRANDMOTHER
An Interview with Theda Beningfleld
In Raytown, Missouri, there lives a woman named Theda Beningifeld. She has a husband, two children, seven grandchildren and a busy life.
What makes this grandmother so unusual?
When I first started flying, many members of the family thought I had completely lost my mind. I didn't start to fly until I was 48 years old. In the ten years I have been flying, I got a private licence, a commercial licence and an instructor's classification. After that first 30-minute lesson, I didn't know whether I would ever get a licence, but still I wondered whether I could solo that airplane; whether I would really have enough courage, enough knowledge and ability. When the big day came and the instructor said, "All right, you can solo," would I really be able to go off myself or would I just grab him around the neck and say, "Don't leave me!"?
Mrs. Beningifeld has part-time employment in a doctor's office. Her job gives her the opportunity to work with people. She also likes. to keep busy by doing work for charity organisations.
Well, yes, I am the president of the Union City Mission Auxiliary1 The Union City Mission has been gathering clothes and food for needy people in the Kansas City area for 50 years.
Well, back to flying....
I feel that aviation is a real challenging thing; it is a real fun thing. I tell people that if they want to learn to fly they can learn to fly, if they really want to do it.
The goal that we all have as flight instructors, of course, is making a flight safe. And the thing that will be uppermost will be the decisions that the trainees will have to make: decisions about weather distances deciding that they are familiar with their aircraft. Every time I go into the air, there is something that I learn, and I do not believe that when you are flying, you can sit back and let some of these things pass by. You just have to keep learning. And then I just think, well, how wonderful it is that someone came up with this airplane that would put me up here in the air, because it is a beautiful thing to fly, really.
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