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These are stories of two brothers and their family, their planes, and their lives in the airspace over Scottsdale and the State of Arizona. Looking back, these times sound like fantasies, but they were not long ago. They remind us that amid Arizona’s frenzied growth, there are still remote pieces of landscape and airspace that beckon those who would live and fly there, like David and Michael Ellis.

Everybody knows that the schools of the Ivy League -- universally touted as the pinnacle of American higher education -- have graduated countless political leaders, corporate titans, and global power brokers. But did you know these schools have also produced murderers, warmongers, traitors...

At 9 a.m. on Wednesday 13th July 1955, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to hang in Britain. Convicted of shooting her unfaithful lover, David Blakeley, in cold blood, as he stood by his sports car on Easter Sunday—the calm and dignified court appearance of this mother of two young children and the furore that accompanied her sentence, ensured that this trial was to have a memorable place in the annals of British justice.