George,

I'm sure that you and your son will get many hours of good flying out of the Sky Hawk it will certainly will be a step up. Being a hand launched airplane you will most likely want a some kind of other trainer later to complete his training.

I took a look at your website, very interesting! I concur that taking an interdiscipline approach to education is important. I feel there would be a greater interest in learning for students if teachers approached education differently. Just telling a math student that memorization of a formula like the Pythagorean Theorem will be important to them someday certainly is not convincing. However showing the students its application in how to compute the correct length of a rafter using the formula on the construction job would certainly mean more.

BTW- A short edit for you..............Was it not Icarus the son of Daedalus who flew to too close to the sun which melted his wings of feathers and wax?

I may have a book your son may enjoy looking at if I still have it Aviation History a lot of great pictures.

Steve