Daytona Beach, FL –
Cover Design –
Greg Gannotti, my-brother-in-law, designed the awesome cover for If You Ain’t a Pilot…. Miss Rachel took the picture of my surprised eyes and furrowed brow.
The cover design follows the same rules given to the student pilots of UPT class 88-07 at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, way back in July of 1988. That is, it doesn’t have to have aircraft, but if it had a T-38, it had to have a T-37 (and vice versa), and it needed to say “14 STUS” for the 14th Student Squadron to which the class was assigned.
As told in Chapter 5, “Behavioral Disorder,” the class opted for a pink flamingo instead of any aircraft, and as shown above, “14 STUS” is printed on the surfboard.
In the cover design, the T-38 is easy to spot. Can you find the T-37? Is “14 STUS” really included, too? (Psst! Check the tail number.)
