Airplanes, especially planes like the P-47 thunderbolt show the rapid growth of technology in the world and in the United States that provided us with the great freedom that we enjoy today. With this freedom comes responsibility. The responsibility to learn all we can not only about airplanes or history, but about technology. Technology is the most important product of the United States has today. To keep our country on top of the worlds technology requires us to have the most trained workforce anywhere.
Aviation is important because aviation and aerospace both exhibit the limits of our technology.
If our students learn about aviation they will be able to understand any field of work. We must ensure that aviation, airplanes, aircraft and aerospace are words on all of our children's lips. Airplanes create dreams. Dreams of leaving the restriction of a two dimensional world. Dreams of having freedom to travel anywhere, in any direction at any time and any distance.