Courtesy Jon Yuspa
Retired Cmdr. Chuck Aikins, 92, is pushed by his daughter, a Southwest Airlines captain with 20 years of commercial flying experience. Aikins started flying for the Navy in 1938 and was a pilot on the USS Brooklyn during the invasions of North Africa and Sicily. He also was part of a fighter squad on USS Lexington in the Philippines and Western Pacific and flew more than 25,000 hours in his career.