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ROB: WELL IF YOU KNOW MUCH ABOUT WILL ROGERS LIFE, YOU KNOW THAT HE HAD AN
EXTREME LOVE OF AVIATION.
THAT'S WHY EACH YEAR THEY DO AN ANNUAL FLY-IN TO HIS HOME PLACE.
PLANES YOU SEE HERE AREN'T HEADED FOR LAGUARDIA OR L-A-X, THESE PILOTS ARE
HERE'S OUR ANDY BARTH.
ANDY BARTH: THEY FILL THE SKIES AND SHUFFLE US FROM PLACE TO PLACE; BUT THE
HEADED FOR THE WILL ROGERS AND WILEY POST FLY-IN, AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, WELL,
IS LOCATED IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD.
GREG MERRELL: IT'S SUCH A GOOD EXCUSE TO FLY SOMEWHERE AND HAVE SOME
FUN; IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR IT.
ANDY: GREG MERRELL IS A SECOND GENERATION PILOT AND SAYS FLYING IS A WAY
OF LIFE.
GREG: MY DAD WAS A NAVY FIGHTER PILOT SO I KIND OF GREW UP IN AVIATION.
I HAD AN UNCLE THAT I WORKED FOR THAT WAS BASED HERE IN TULSA THAT I FLEW
FOR, BUT IT'S, IT'S JUST A LIFESTYLE FOR MOST OF US.
ANDY: MERRELL IS PARTICIPATING IN THE 76TH ANNUAL EVENT WHICH LANDS
MORE THAN 90 PILOTS ON WILL ROGERS BIRTHPLACE; PILOTS WHO CONSIDER
ROGERS, AND POST, HEROES OF THE SKIES.
GREG: THEY WERE BOTH AVIATION PIONEERS; THEY WERE BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN
IT WAS TRULY DANGEROUS AND THEY WERE BREAKING NEW GROUND WHEN THEY FLEW.
THEY WERE LEARNING HOW TO FLY, THEY WERE LEARNING WHAT AIRPLANES DID; AND,
YOU KNOW SO, EVERYTHING WE KNOW TODAY IS BASED ON OUR PIONEERS IN THE FUTURE, ON
THEIR EXPERIMENTATION AND THEIR COURAGE AND THEIR LEARNING; SO YOU KNOW, WE
OWE THEM A LOT REALLY.