OLIVE BRANCH, Miss — Nestled in Olive Branch, the Luke Weathers Flight Academy is not just training pilots; it’s fostering dreams. And so is one man who was instrumental in starting that academy. Though he spends more time in the air than on the ground, the sky is certainly not the limit for retired FedEx Captain Albert Glenn.
“I didn’t choose this in the beginning,” Glenn said. “I loved airplanes. I have played with airplanes since I was three years old, and if you ask my mom and dad, they’ll tell you I used every bit of masking tape at the house and any piece of wood I could find to build airplanes with.”
And that ingenuity paid off. Glenn first lifted off decades ago and, in 1972, relocated to the Memphis area to pursue flying…