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A boy who wanted to have wings
"Mother, do you remember? I wanted to put wings on a wagon."
At age 12, he took his first flight with a famous pilot.
At age 20, he joined the Air Force as an aircraft maintenance technician.
At age 21, he obtained his pilot license after only 80 minutes of practice.
At age 23, he fractured his skull in an airplane accident.
He broke off the engagement because of his dream of flying.
He gave up his dream and worked at a tile manufacturer,
a goods inspection company, and a car factory.
"I always want to go to where I can have an innocent mind."
At 26, he worked as an aircraft mechanic to realize his dream.
He piloted night mail planes at the risk of his life.
At 27, he was sent to the Sahara desert
to repair airplanes that made a forced landing and rescue pilots.
At 35, he tried a prize-winning flight but crashed in the Libyan Desert.
He was rescued 5 days after the forced landing.
At 38, he crashed again in Guatemala, fracturing his skull and left collarbone.
At 39, he began flying again as a combat pilot.
At 43, he was disqualifed as a pilot because of the age limit.
At 44, during the second world war,
he asked his captain persistently and was permitted five flights.
He was the oldest fighter pilot.
"I always hope to be the child I was."
Disobeying the order of 5 missions he took off on 8 missions,
and in the last mission, The last flight had
fuel for an 8-hour flight. He could fly only 8 hours.
In 1994, the airplane that took off at 8:30 am did not return after 8 hours.
After his disappearance, people said "He went to meet the little prince."
Saint-Exupery wrote "The Little Prince" a year before he went missing.
The little prince sat down on a stone, and raised his eyes toward the sky.
"I wonder," he said,
"whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that
one day each one of us may find his own again.
Look at my planet. It is right there above us."
The writer of "The Little Prince",
a man who disappeared into the sky by, following his dream