WARREN, Mich. (WXYZ) — At one high school in southeast Michigan, there are three teenagers that have student licenses to fly an airplane.
Joe Zynda, Lorance Morrison and Andrew Rusu are three out of 700 boys at De La Salle Collegiate High School who can fly.
“You ask people ‘What do you want to do when you grow up?’ You don’t hear pilot or aviation, so three doing it in one school – it’s pretty huge,” said Zynda.
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Zynda just graduated an received a full ride Medallion Scholarship to Western Michigan University to study aviation. His goal is to eventually work for UPS flying freight planes.
“I really can’t wait to start flying bigger birds,” said Zynda.
Rusu is going to be a senior next year. His love for planes developed because he lives near Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
“I see the planes fly over all the time, ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of thought they were cool,” said Rusu.
Rusu eventually wants to study aerospace engineering.
Morrison is the youngest out of the group, he’ll be a junior next year. His love for planes developed through his father's love of flying.
“My first flight was when I was 2 months old,” said Morrison.
His goal is to fly for FedEx one day, taking on freight planes.
“The freedom, like just like, being above all the houses and looking down,” said Morrison.
All three say it’s good to know others who can fly.
“It’s kind of nice to know somebody else that I can talk the same language to,” said Morrison.
“At the end of the day you might not always want to fly long distance on my own, so maybe I’ll go with Lorance,” said Rusu.
They credit some of the classes they have taken for helping them fly, including earth and space science classes and geometry.
