Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And they would fly around the farm dropping these cards of lacewings all over the farm.

Your mom was a bombardier, basically.

She was.

And then she actually, in many ways, started my family's obsession with aerospace.

So she got, based on a lot of that, really, really, really into wanting to fly.

And the rest of the family, because of that, really, really wanted to fly.

And so they started building kid aircraft.

So like experimental aircraft that they build.

So he has three sons, Ralph, Shelly, and then Nathan's the oldest.

My mom, Tamara's middle, and then Christopher's the youngest.

And when they were in high school, they built this plane.

And he had no college degree.

It's like amazing what he's been able to do.

One of the smartest people I know, they built this plane, they got really into aerospace engineering, and then they built another plane, and they just kind of kept doing that.

That's kind of where my family's love for aviation came from.

And then I, growing up, would spend a few weeks on the farm every summer.

And we'd go check wells, and I'd help him fix stuff in the morning.

So we'd wake up at 4, go do all that, and then by like noon, it'd be like 110 outside.

So we'd mess around in the barn and work on stuff.

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