Kenneth Copeland

A Cherokee man.

Anyway, and he's my grandfather.

And just, oh, what a guy.

Anyway, we did go out there on that old farm and spent a lot of time there.

So he went to work for National Line Insurance Company there in Little Rock.

It now has merged with other people.

There was a car lot in Fort Worth at 1010 Texas Street.

I understand it isn't there anymore, but it was then.

I worked there for a man by the name of Bill Golightly.

And he also owned an aviation company.

So I came home and told my dad, I said, you said you see that I got an education.

I said, I want to learn how to fly.

So he shook my hand.

He said, all right, I'll stay with you till you get your commercial and you own your own.

So I soloed August the 24th at four o'clock in the afternoon.

at Meacham Field, 12 years before DFW.

Love Field in Dallas.

And most people won't understand this, but aviators will.

The final approach fix on an instrument landing system is called the outer marker.

Well, Jim Couch had been a military instructor, and I'd had a couple of other instructors that weren't all that good, so Bill brought him in.