Dreaming of The Wild Blue Yonder

By DAVID ELLIS

Even though the economy is limping along, pilot-training schools are flying high. One California flight-school administrator, noting a surge in applications, believes that "the success of the air war in the Middle East has caught people's imaginations." Jim Haynes, president of Janelle Aviation in Leesburg, Va., says his number of applicants has quadrupled since the war. Remember when the Watergate investigation sent thousands of young Americans to journalism school?

With reporting by Sidney Urquhart