Two of my biggest influences are Orville and Wilbur Wright. Can you imagine being in a world where the only things in the sky are birds and balloons and saying “I’m gonna fly with them”?

Then to have people in your ear like “Why don’t you go work for Benz? They just released these cars,” and to say “No. I’m gonna get in that sky and fly with the birds.”

Going into something like that you gotta know that you’re gonna fail... I mean a whole lot of falling before you can get something like that right. And not just some short falls but coming out of the sky... Then to pick up and keep going until you get there…

Now look at the legacy they left because they didn’t give up. So I go into what I do with the mentality that things are gonna happen… I’m gonna fly above it, and I won’t stop until I get in that sky with those birds.

-RJ