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A Milestone: Stephen’s First Skydive

One thing we’ve learned: You need to take time out to mark the special occasions in life. And you need to do that with the people you love.

So, we had a great time with a milestone birthday trip in Hawaii, where family flew in from far points on the globe to spend a few days relaxing and catching up. And jumping out of an airplane…

JulietBravoFox Media’s Creative Director Stephen Yeates celebrated on January 15 with a tandem jump from a Skydive Hawaii Cessna Caravan, with founder Julie Boatman, son James Yeates, and daughter Natalie Yeates also skydiving on the same load. There’s no better way to see the beauty and majesty of Oahu’s North Shore from Kawaihapai Field (PHDH), that’s for sure!

Another aviation adventure for our team!

Watch it here. Video courtesy of Skydive Hawaii.

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Pearl Harbor Flight

When I planned the scenic flight with the Cessna Pilot Center in Honolulu at the time, Flight School Hawaii, I didn’t put it together that our flight around the island of Oahu would bring us back over Ford Island, the site where the USS Arizona lies at its troubled rest.

On this day, December 7, but 77 years ago now, the ship was sunk at anchor by the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese forces.

On that day in 2008, a brilliantly blue sky in January echoed the waters beneath us as the controller at Honolulu International asked us to hold over the island. With each turn, we circled the graveyard of hundreds of soldiers lost on that morning. The slow hold gave a chance to mourn from above–and to look out over the land, to see the inland pass over which the fighters slung themselves at an unsuspecting air station.

Each time we pass another 7th of December, I remember.