Flight on the mind...

With this week's "Balloon Boy" story it seems flight is on many of our minds. I don't know about you, but while I suspected something fishy, I couldn't help but worry about a six year old child flying through the air, unattended, in a jiffy pop bag. Then I started laughing. My head told my heart that the child wasn't in there, something wasn't right and all would be ok. I cannot help but keep asking myself, why is everyone so caught up in this story?

There was the element of bizarre, there was the speculation of hoax, but there was also the well known fact that most people and children have a serious curiosity about flight. How do I know this? I see it all the time. Every week at iFLY I see indoor skydiving bring actual flight to actual people. No false pretense, no virtual reality...the real deal. I see children discover it at our Kids Club, or at each others birthday parties. We have all kinds of families from locals to Pierce Brosnan to Cindy Crawford or Amber Valletta come check out that amazing feeling of flight. Older men, younger men, moms, grandma's and everyone in between. They fly in our wind tunnel because they were told it is just like flying in the sky. There is a reason millions of people try it every year. It is satisfying. It is fun. It brings a reality to that dream you had that you were flying, and when you woke up, you wanted to fall back asleep so you could feel it again. Flight is special. Everyone at iFLY knows this. We want to share it with as many people as possible, because we know it really is THAT good.

We do recommend coming to the tunnel though. Jiffy pop bags do not look safe.