Wolfy Boarding His First Flight on American Airlines at LaGuardia Airport in 1947

Destination: Washington, DC – Achim Weyl’s house.

The year 1947 was my senior year at Kingston High School in upstate New York and the family was helping me to decide where I would like to go to school to become an aeronautical engineer. As most high school seniors I had many schools to choose from. There was of course CalTech, but my biggest problem was ...