A pilot in Northern California used his flight path Saturday to spell out the words “Never Forget” on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.Major Christopher Pryce has been serving in the Air Force since 2003. Pryce earned his wings at the Nut Tree Airport in his hometown of Vacaville, California, just a week before he was shipped off to basic training. Pryce took off from Nut Tree Saturday morning at 10:45 a.m. and landed two hours and 22 minutes later. There was no smoke from the plane, but the words are visible by looking at the flight path tweeted by Flightradar24. The path started in Vacaville and took the pilot north to the Colusa area before turning around. “When I need time to unwind, I go flying in my airplane that I built,” Pryce told sister station KCRA about the experience. “So that was my goal today, to just unwind and reflect.” The inspiration for the tribute came from the newly released Netflix documentary “Turning Point,” which Pryce and his wife Katy watched on Friday night. “Last night when we were sitting there watching (the documentary), I drew up the flight plan and drew all the letters and thought, ‘This was something I could do’….It would give me time to think and give something back to say, ‘We’re still thinking of you.'” Pryce spent nearly a decade on the ground serving in Afghanistan and Iraq before he would go on to become an officer and a military pilot. He now lives in Vacaville with his wife and their three children.
A pilot in Northern California used his flight path Saturday to spell out the words “Never Forget” on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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Major Christopher Pryce has been serving in the Air Force since 2003. Pryce earned his wings at the Nut Tree Airport in his hometown of Vacaville, California, just a week before he was shipped off to basic training.
Pryce took off from Nut Tree Saturday morning at 10:45 a.m. and landed two hours and 22 minutes later. There was no smoke from the plane, but the words are visible by looking at the flight path tweeted by Flightradar24.
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The path started in Vacaville and took the pilot north to the Colusa area before turning around.
“When I need time to unwind, I go flying in my airplane that I built,” Pryce told sister station KCRA about the experience. “So that was my goal today, to just unwind and reflect.”
The inspiration for the tribute came from the newly released Netflix documentary “Turning Point,” which Pryce and his wife Katy watched on Friday night.
“Last night when we were sitting there watching (the documentary), I drew up the flight plan and drew all the letters and thought, ‘This was something I could do’….It would give me time to think and give something back to say, ‘We’re still thinking of you.'”
Pryce spent nearly a decade on the ground serving in Afghanistan and Iraq before he would go on to become an officer and a military pilot. He now lives in Vacaville with his wife and their three children.
