When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Thou art an eagle, thou doest belong in the sky and not to the earth, stretch forth thy wings and fly.

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.

When I'm up in the air, it's like I'm closer to heaven; I can't explain the feeling.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. we never wonder where they live: they are at home in the sky, in flight. Flight is their way of being in the world.

I am a 23 year old guy from San Diego, California, however I currently live in Las Vegas, Nevada (yay...). I enjoy playing games such as Ace Combat, Battlefield, Halo, and Call of Duty. Oh, and my preferred console is Xbox 360 and Xbox One, so if anyone wants to reach me on Xbox Live or send a friend request, my gamertag is LegendaryAce 73. Anyway, back to my bio. I am planning on attending a university that has an aviation program and then joining the Air Force. I enjoy the outdoors and hanging out with my friends. I don't mind anyone wanting to be friends with me, but I despise chauvinistic, arrogant, and narcissistic people who believe that they are the most important person in the world. If you insult me, treat me wrongly, or otherwise become a complete nuisance to me, expect me to mete out proper retaliatory action. However, I do accept CONSTRUCTIVE flame messages, no insulting and degrading BS.

My Origins:

I came upon this site after googling Rio fan art, and decided to check it out. After reading a few stories, I was hooked to this site, and the rest is history. I first found out about Rio when the trailer came out. I then saw it on the release day, and I have seen Rio 2.

I'd say with 100% certainty that Rio is my favorite animated movie of all time, no exceptions. And no offense to anyone, but I think that Rio has surpassed anything Disney, Pixar, or Dreamworks has put out and has reached a level said companies will not reach in a good long time.

My Personality and Life:

I'm now a certified pilot and am rated to fly high performance aircraft.

I love flying aircraft, being around aircraft, and doing anything that has to do with planes and flying.

Science is my all time favorite subject. I am always reading up on the latest news, discoveries, breakthroughs, etc. in the fields of science. Things like Theoretical physics, black hole physics, relatively, quantum physics, molecular science, etc. have always fascinated me.

I'm a huge Dragon Ball fanatic. I've been watching the series since 1999, and have loved it since. My favorite show so far is Dragon Ball Super, and my favorite character has to be Beerus, the God of Destruction of the 7th Universe.

I like to learn as much information as I possibly can, no matter how trivial.

I'm somewhat independent, but I'd do anything, even risk my life, for someone I care about.

I'm not someone who gets pissed off or offended if someone insults me. It just means they're trying to hide their faults while trying to expose mine, which makes me feel bad for them.

I can take any harsh comments that anyone says to me and instead of it negatively affecting me, I use it to make myself even better than them.

My life philosophy is we all have our own reasons to be on this Earth, we just need to find that reason. While we might not be the next US President, or the next Albert Einstein, our actions can speak volumes more than any famous scientist's discovery, or any President bringing world peace. All that matters is that you had enough of an impact on this world to make you happy, and the ones dearest to you happy, and even makes God happy to have created you.

My favorite animals are birds, reptiles, and dogs. Ia have a Blue and Gold Macaw named Sigma.

My hobbies include flying planes, shooting high power sniper rifles (.300 Win Mag, .308, 338 Lapua Magnum, .416, and .50 BMG), driving quads, buggies, sand rails, etc., reading, playing video games, and hanging out with my friends.

My future prediction is that there will be a massive war of electronics between Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

Favorite Music: Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park, Five Finger Death Punch, Three Days Grace, Keiki Kobayashi (Ace Combat Soundtracks), Martin O'Donnell (Halo Soundtracks), any Contemporary Jazz artist, Rise Against, Treyarch Sound, and numerous Dubstep artists.

Favorite Video Games: The entire Ace Combat Series, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Elite Dangerous, The entire Halo Series (especially Halo Reach & ODST), Black Ops 1 & 2, Battlefield 4, Just Cause, Fallout, and Tom Clancy's Endwar.

Favorite Books: All non-fiction relating to military aircraft, The Rio novels, Tom Clancy Books, Black Hawk Down, and Encyclopedias.

Favorite Movies(No particular order): Interstellar, Rio, Rambo, Die Hard, The Expendables, Iron Man, Black Hawk Down, The Avengers, Most other Marvel movies, 28 Days Later, I Am Legend, Apocalypse Now, World War Z, and the James Bond Movies.

Favorite YouTube channels: Slow Mo Guys, CorridorDigital, Steven Crowder, Machinima, Markiplier Game, AirForceProud95, Achievement Hunter and Roosterteeth.

Favorite TV series: Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, How the Universe Works, Seconds from Disaster, FutureWeapons, Deadliest Catch, Ghost Adventures, Outrageous Acts of Science, Breaking Bad, The Blacklist.

Favorite Quotes:

"Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ... I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing." -USAF SR-71 Base, Kadena, Japan

"Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the world, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite."- José Maria Velasco Ibarra

"The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart"-Helen Keller

"Believe you can and you're halfway there"-Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'"-Audrey Hepburn

"Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly."-Robert Kennedy

“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.” -Albert Einstein

”Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” -Albert Einstein

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” -Albert Einstein

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” -Napoleon Hill

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We're dropping into Hell Troopers! Time to grow a pair!"- Gunnery Sergent Edward Buck- Halo 3 ODST

"You've ruined my perfect ending you stubborn freak of nature! Will you just stay down already?!" -Lord Beerus - Dragon Ball Super

"The problem with you is that you can't tell the difference between friend and foe. Terror is NOT your friend!" Captain Jack Bartlett- Ace Combat 5

"I'm a Destroyer. destruction is in my very name!" - Lord Beerus - Dragon Ball Super

"Those nukes are exactly why the Belkans have lowered themselves to sneaking around, pitting two countries against each other. You give a man enough weapons, and he'll start to think he's more powerful than he really is. Of course, it's beyond me how they could delude themselves into thinking that they can control the very weapons which wiped out their own cities." Captain Snow- Ace Combat 5

"I'm gonna rip out your heart and show it to your dying eyes!"-Edward Buck

"Let's see... I've quadrated my vector angles, adjusted for wind shear, positive reinforcement, OK, let's see, flaps open... perfect... landing gear... check... tail flaps...operational. OK, this is it. Just keep it simple, thrust, lift, drag, and weight. Thrust, lift, drag, weight... Thrust, lift, drag, weight... Thrust, lift, drag, wai wai waiiiiit!" Blu when he attempts to fly for the first time.

"Not cool man, not cool!"-Blu

"Back you savage! Yeah, that's right! It's a spoon and a fork! Be afraid, be very afraid!"-Blu

"Oh, that's adorable! I love doing nicknames..."-Blu