“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.”
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Connecting People Through the Air
Anyone that knew Cy knew that he was an avid aviator and pilot. Hardly a day passed when he wasn't in the sky, and that's exactly the way he preferred it. The man loved the concept of being airborn. The freedom, the possibilities, the feeling it provided - all of it. He was born to fly. It wasn't something he wanted to do- it was something he lived to do.
Cy used his abilities and resources to connect people. Things that would usually be too inconvenient to be undertaken were easy when Cy Nunnally was involved. "Shoot man, I don't mind- let's just skip down to Florida in the morning." This was a common statement, with the word "Florida" being interchangeable for literally anywhere you wanted to go.
Cy closed the distance between where you were, and where you needed to be. All while sporting a smile and happy to answer questions about every little gauge and instrument in the cockpit. From Easter Egg drops to law enforcement flights, Cy served his community in every way possible with the skills and resources he had.
He was a fantastic aviator, pilot, philanthropist, and friend. He was all around a truly special guy.
High Flight
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew-
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
~John Gillespie Magee, Jr.