Captain Billy in the Danbury News Times
Captain Billy was recently featured in the Danbury News Times. The book takes place in Danbury Connecticut where Author William “Captain Billy” Moyle grew up and lived for for the first few decades of his life and where he still has family.
From The Article
DANBURY — When William Moyle was a child, his father took him to Danbury Airport on Sundays, where they would sit on the top of his ‘51 Chevrolet and watch the airplanes land. It was then Moyle fell in love with the “magic” of flying.
As a teen, he and his friend biked to the airport to watch the planes. Sometimes they got a chance to fuel or clean them, and eventually they learned to fly.
So when Moyle, now 70 and a retired airline pilot, came up with the idea for a children’s book about a T-6 Texan plane, he decided to set part of the story at Danbury Airport.
“It’s kind of my mecca,” Moyle said. “It’s where everything started for me and I got all these stories and dreams and where my dreams came true.”