Robert Cloos was one lesson away from getting his pilot’s license when his instructor had a heart attack.
After decades of wishing he’d gotten that license, Cloos — now 73 — got to fly a plane anyway last Thursday, when he took the controls of a 1942 Boeing Stearman during a special afternoon with fellow veterans and residents of Marquis Forest Grove Assisted Living.
Hosted by Ageless Aviation Dreams Foundation, a nonprofit that honors U.S. veterans living in long-term care facilities, the eight Forest Grove men and one woman were each treated to a half-hour flight on an open-air, two-seater plane 1,000 feet above the Willamette Valley.
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