A HAND IN AVIATION

摘要

Sometimes we hold history in our hands and don't know it. As a five-year-old, Todd Ryan lived with his grandparents at their house in Queens, New York City. He often joined his grandfather, Gene Smyth, in his carpentry shop. "Instead of saying, 'Don't touch that,'" Ryan recalls, "he'd say, 'Let me show you how to do that.'" He also recalls spending hours leafing through an airplane-spotting book in the house and then drawing pictures of images in the book.