Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Just shy of 80 years ago — a lifetime by many people’s standards —Thomas Horton trained to fly in a bomber made of balsa wood. Yes, that wood: The lighter-than-air material you buy in pre-punched sheets to assemble your kids’ toy gliders, the wood that sinks to the thickness of a … Continue reading Florida man flew deadly missions in a balsa wood plane, and at 99 has a medal to show for it