March 21, 2010
Rescued Animals Get a First-Class Ticket to Freedom
Photograph by Tom Culver
Most of the passengers Julia Ryan helps fly around the country have never previously boarded an airplane, but they are rarely intimidated by the experience. They tend to fall asleep and on special occasions, some will even enter the cockpit and sit in the pilot’s lap.
They are among the 1,000 animals transported by Animal Rescue Flights, an organization co-founded by Ms. Ryan and Clark Burgard, who are both pilots.
The group transports abused and neglected animals from
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