Of Dreams & Coveralls

James Powell's earliest memories are of airplanes. His imagination was fueled by gasoline-powered models; balsa-wood gliders; and stories of military aircraft. Amazing though James never believed he would have the opportunity to fly in an airplane.<p> While stumbling through school unsure of a career James took a dollar ride in a Cessna 150. After a thirty-minute flight he had an epiphany. As they taxied in James's heart and mind were still in the air. Eureka! I've found it he said to himself. This is what I want to do. I am going to fly airplanes.<p> Powell's path from that day forward was straight and narrow: he joined the military and successfully graduated from the Air Force's pilot training class at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi. But that was just the first step in what became a career as a professional aviator.<p> In this moving memoir of hard work and dogged determination Powell recounts the rocky road he traveled on his way to becoming a commercial pilot. Despite the diversion of a teenage marriage and divorce and friends' ridicule James's determination never wavered.<p> Read how author James Powell used his gift of tenacity believing he could do anything if he worked long and hard enough in Of Dreams and Coveralls.