College Admissions Essay-Dreams Of Flying

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Dreams of Flying Flying since the age of ten when he placed sticks in the side of a cardboard box to make it look like an airplane, RG Martian of Olathe, Colorado, would jump off of a giant sand pile and fly down its sandy side. “That was the first thing (I ever flew), very uncontrolled,” RG said. Some people never get the opportunity to follow their dreams but because of hard work and good financials RG was able to make his dream come to life. RG explained, “believe it or not, when I was in second grade in school, is when I realized that I had to fly. I had a friend that had a birthday party and his dad had an airplane and took us all up flying for his birthday. From that day on I’ve flown anything you can imagine… and my age increased …show more content…

He is planning on starting his second but has not yet started the project. He stumbled accost the helicopter project on a trip to Arizona, in 2002. RG was on his way to buy an airplane but it wasn’t ready when it was supposed to be for a test flight. On a whim he went to see about a helicopter that he had read about in a magazine. Originally he thought it was going to be a toy or perhaps a hoax. “I got over there and never looked back at the airplane. I just bought it and brought it home to build,” RG laughed. RG is currently in the process of transforming the helicopter into a jet by placing a turbine engine in it. To build the original it took him 600 hours he approximates but now with the transformation he has thousands of hours into building this one helicopter. The transformation happened out of necessity. Early on RG had a few engine failures. Later he said, “I had a big thanksgiving over here, and had about 70 people, I was giving everybody rides and I had an engine problem with it that day. I thought that’s it. I took it in the shop and tore it down. That was six years ago and I’ve been working on it ever since. Its been a real project, putting it

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