# Hooking a sky ride

Author: Morrissey, Dan

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75098

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Hooking+a+sky+ride+Morrissey&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Throughout the summer my interest in aviation burned at steady white heat. I was thirteen years old at the time and lived just outside of San Antonio, Texas. A wire fence and the width of a dusty road were all that separated my father’s farm from Brooks Field, and Kelly Field was only two miles away. San Antonio was ringed about by huge army training camps and flying-fields. Everywhere you looked you could see khaki, and airplanes were as thick as crows. They buzzed overhead from daylight till dark.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hooking-a-sky-ride-75098/chapters/1/index.md)