Oktay said when he flew near Alaska mountains at an altitude of 6,500 meters, he had to use compressed oxygen. On his Alaska flying, which covered more than 15,000 kilometers in three weeks, he said: “There was a conference in Seattle, first we went there by plane then moved on to Alaska. and its territories, from Alaska to Bahama. Oktay said he had flown to all corners of the U.S. At the firm, he helped customers with business trips as a flying patent agent. In 1993, when he retired from IBM, he transformed his passion into a business by founding his own company, Oktay Enterprises International. Saying he was responsible for various divisions at IBM, Oktay added: “I would go to by plane and fly above the company for a short while.” Since then, for more than half a century, I’ve been flying.” “There was this small airport near IBM, I’d go there during lunch breaks and have half-hour flight training courses,” he said. Taking a job at tech giant IBM, Oktay started working as a technology manager in research and development. Sevgin Oktay told Anadolu Agency that his passion for the sky started when he was a young boy watching airshows by pilots in northern Turkey, at Safranbolu airbase in the Karabuk province.Īfter finishing high school in Turkey, in 1955 Oktay left his motherland to go to university in the U.S., and earned master’s and doctoral degrees at Columbia University in New York City. says he has flown all around America, chasing his aviation hobby. Still flying high at 84 years old, a Turkish pilot living in the U.S.
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