Rites of summer: Single-engine shoobies

A feel-good story for the 4th, and maybe one of the more bring-a-smile-to-your-face stories of the summer, vis-a-vis the indelible joys of flight, no matter the craft. This is a flying story that ought to resonate anywhere, but to live anywhere near the much-lauded Jersey shore is to understand the immense, daunting, and sometimes off-putting obstacle of the drive, of sometimes hours spent in a bumper-to-bumper queue. So to see some of these point-to-point numbers is to realize, well, just an… (www.philly.com) More...