Gay pilot

Go have a seat up in first class. So that started that journey, and growing up near O'Hare, I just did whatever I could to be around the airlines. One of my neighbors, who I had on my paper route. GS: Well, I was really fortunate when I was in eighth grade.

He grew up fascinated by airplanes, he's got models of some of his favorite around the house. Thank you to the donors who sustain The Museum of Flight. The Flight Deck is made possible by listeners like you. If that meant going and spending the afternoon listening to the air traffic control frequencies on a radio and learning process, doing that, then getting a job working construction at O'Hare.

You. I was a newspaper delivery boy so one of my neighbors, her best friend happened to be Bill Norwood, one of the founding members of OBAP and the first African American pilot United hired. A content note.

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He began blogging about his life in and built up a big following. So yes, I've had some amazing experiences with the airlines. The National Gay Pilots Association, the worldwide LGBTQ+ aviation community, was established gay primarily as a social organization.

As always, we're leaving the interview uncensored, but I did want to give a heads-up. He managed to parlay that love of aviation into a career as a pilot, flying some of the most iconic aircraft out there for United Airlines. To support this podcast and the museum's other educational initiatives, visit museumofflight.

Greg Sumner is typical of so many av geeks I've met over the past few years working here at the museum. So flying not the friendly skies but flying American and TWA so I always tell the American flight attendants that it's their fault that I am an airline pilot today.

It just all comes back to somebody introducing them to this whole thing. About 29 minutes into this episode, Greg shares a derogatory term for a gay man that was used to describe him by another pilot. With that, please welcome Greg to the podcast.

SM: Did you get to go do the whole tour of the cockpit, the whole nine yards back then? About us The NGPA is the largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender aviation professionals and enthusiasts from around the world.

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And so she coordinated my mom and dad to meet Bill and his wife on a Saturday afternoon in Chicagoland and he spent the afternoon kind of mentoring me on pilot I needed to do. GS: That's why, in fact, on my last trip to London on thewe had a family come up to say hello and we love having kids come up and put them in the seats, wear our pilot hats, take photos of the families because I remember how important that was for me to think, hey, I can actually do this.

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SM: So what was your journey then in towards becoming a pilot and what got you here? Greg Sumner grew up fascinated by airplanes and managed to parlay that love of aviation into a career as a pilot, flying some of the most iconic aircraft out there for United Airlines.

And that hooked me pretty quickly.