A few weeks ago everybody was talking about this 14-year-old boy who took the airplane for a joyride. None of the newspapers that I saw mentioned the name of the airfield where this happened, however. Isbell Field in Ft. Payne, Alabama, was named for Col. John Birdwell Isbell, my great-great-uncle. http://www.aopa.org/prez/prespos/2005/pp0508.html