It is said that chance encounters are important because they can have branching power. That is, they have the potential to have unforeseen knock-on impacts that dramatically alter the course of one’s life, sometimes opening up unexpected opportunities.

Such was the case for flight training icon Jerry Trimble. He couldn’t possibly have predicted how a chance meeting with a seemingly random individual in the 1970s would so dramatically affect the course of his life — and the lives of so many others in the years to come.

Those two paragraphs are from an article I penned in February '22 for Vertical magazine. If this at all whets your interest to learn the story of Jerry Trimble I invite you to enjoy the entire article that I've linked below.

https://verticalmag.com/features/jerry-trimble-helicopters-a-passion-for-instruction/