IS DEWEY DAVENPORT more passionate about his jet-pilot career or his barnstorming career? Answer: yes. Somehow, Davenport finds a way to fit both into his life, even if it is a tight fit. Davenport is able to lead a double life because of a generous schedule at his bread-and-butter job as a pilot for NetJets. He works every other week and, after 10 years with the company, gets four 21-day vacations a year. Combined with his off week, that means his last vacation began in August and ended in October. Ohio-based Davenport, 43, had a fascination with airplanes as a kid, building plastic models at age 7. He moved to rubber-band-powered models that supercharged his interest. When he was 10 his parents bought him a remote-control aircraft to build. That led to contests-a world competition in Ireland, to be exact-using model jets performing aerobatics. He was even co-organizer of the Jet World Masters competition when it came to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in 2011.
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