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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Chuck Chiang / The Bulletin
February 11, 2007
A job with a regional airline was far from Jon Hershey's mind when he decided he wanted to become a pilot.
"'Top Gun,'" said Hershey, 20, of Redmond, when asked what inspired him to pursue pilot education, referring to the 1986 blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise as a fighter jet....