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(AP) \u2014 Fred Miles doesn\u2019t speak much, but he can hum his way around a melody, and the one coming out of his mouth this past summer as he looked down from the top of the Bridger Gondola at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort was \u201cTake Me Home, Country Roads,\u201d by John Denver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Miles, 103, wasn\u2019t going home via a car or a road just yet. First, he was going tandem adaptive paragliding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would be his first experience flying, seated in a wheeled cart with a paraglider behind him. It would also be the record-setter for the oldest adaptive paraglider to fly in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as his son, Greg Miles, reminded his father just before the flight, it would be far from his first time navigating the skies, the Jackson Hole News &amp; Guide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jhnewsandguide.com\/valley\/people\/closeup\/fred-miles-takes-flight-at-103\/article_25f1ef50-021e-5a99-a653-50f4ca61cdd3.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPart of the reason you\u2019re not going to have a problem is because of your flying experience,\u201d Greg, a former town councilor, told his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019ve seen a lot of crazy things over the years, I\u2019m sure,\u201d Greg said, \u201cso hopefully this will be enjoyable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The senior Miles first piloted a plane 81 years ago after joining the United States Army Air Corps, which eventually became the Air Force. He joined the force after graduating from Syracuse University with an engineering degree and flew in World War II, again in the Korean War and afterward for some time, for a total of 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his time in the military, Miles once nose-dived his plane into the Bodega Bay in northern California \u2014 where he was stationed and where he met his wife \u2014 when its engine caught fire. He survived only because a fishing boat picked him up and laid him against the boat\u2019s engine for warmth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that was about a half-century ago and a few things have changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miles was born in Canastota, New York, came to Jackson Hole from his home state three years ago, and recently moved into Sage Living. 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