When I sat down to lunch recently with retired Captain Stewart McQuillan in Colorado Springs, Colorado, it would have been easy to notice a woman without arms and a man in a wheelchair—two people with disabilities having a meal together. I doubt anybody would have known they were looking at two Guinness World Record holders together in one place.
Stewart once served as a Royal Air Force/U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who had to retire after his fighter plane broke up on takeoff, crushing his spine and leaving him paralyzed. He returned to aviation as soon as possible, flying fixed-wing aircraft with hand controls.
