Poetic - eh?
Richard Bach, a former Iowa Air Guard pilot, said his best-selling book about a free-wheeling seagull was inspired by Mr. Johnny Livingston.
Johnny Livingston, as he was known, moved many years ago from Iowa to Florida. He was one of the country's top pilots during the barnstorming days of the nineteen-twenties and thirties.
I acquired that label as a twenty-something private pilot flying a 1942 Taylorcraft L2 in the early '70's. I stopped flying when I got married and bought a house. I added it back when I started participating in a pilot's web forum.