Phill Bragg learned to fly when he was seventeen years old and has been flying for hire for the past thirty years. From aerial firefighting in the Rocky Mountains to eradicating illegal coca fields in Colombia to training foreign air force pilots, he has flown for a variety of U.S. government contractors. His true love of flying though is grassroots aviation, particularly antique, open-cockpit biplanes. He lives on a grass airstrip in northeastern North Carolina where he shares a hangar with his 1941 Fleet Finch.