sentences:  Influenced in part by her father, a WWII P-38 pilot and post-war airport manager, Neuffer started accompanying her father to work during summer breaks from school at age 11.Her summer assignments were usually those of helping in the airport front office, but it turned out to be close enough to excite her young passion for things that fly.By the time Neuffer was 15 she had already started flight lessons in the legendary Piper Cub airplane.