Pilot Shares ‘Gift Of Flight’ With Reporter

Photos by Chris Parypa

OCEAN CITY – Lt. Colonel John Klatt and the Air National Guard are in Ocean City this weekend performing in the OC Air Show, exemplifying the many benefits the Air National Guard has to offer, as well as finding the time to give this reporter an experience of a lifetime.

On Thursday morning, I woke up focused on meeting deadline later that day, trying not to focus on meeting Klatt and what that trip might entail.

Arriving at the airport, I did not know what to expect. Whether I would be tagging along in the “chase plane” that would fly beside Klatt and his companion pilot Jeff Boerboon, while photographer Chris Parypa snapped away, or if I would actually be climbing into Klatt’s MXS, an aerobatic performance aircraft.
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