108-year-old veteran stays on solid ground, skips flight

Lynn Balmer was scheduled to take off from Chico, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Sacramento, but decided against the flight in the morning, said Darryl Fisher, president of the Ageless Aviation Dreams Foundation, a group that gets aging veterans into the sky.

The foundation honors seniors and U.S. military veterans with flights aboard a Boeing Stearman biplane, the same type of plane used to train military aviators during World War II.