You may have heard about the pilot for one of our major airlines. He's blind. I won't tell you which airline. People get nervous enough nowadays about flying. I know I do.

I sympathize with the old fellow who says there are two things he will not dofly or swim. "I'm not going to do anything," he says, "that when you stop, you die."

Someone asked the blind airplane pilot how he did it. He said, "No big dealjust a little help from my friends and the Good Lord." Then he explained.

"A friend comes by my house in the morning. I walk carefully out to his car and get in. He drops me off at a certain gate at the airport. I know exactly how many steps it is to the door of the airplane. I climb the steps into the airplane. I have memorized the way to the cockpit. When I am seated I start the engi…