Why is Phoenix and municipalities in the surrounding metropolitan, suburban and rural areas a hotspot for training aircraft pilots? On this podcast, Anthony Wende, an assistant teaching professor in the aviation program at The Polytechnic School, part of the Fulton Schools, joons others in helping trace the local history and the region’s development over many decades. They reveal that Arizona became the first international airport of the Americas and how World War II brought many aspiring pilots to train in the state’s inviting climate, with its year-round blue skies.