Born into a family of aerial performers, Kyle learned to fly at the age of 8 in the same Piper Super Cub he used on a comedy routine until recently. “My father taught me in a nontraditional style, to say the least,” Kyle explains. “He would take me flying in very rural locations to improve my low-level abilities, and he had a habit of chopping the power on me to teach forced-landing techniques and create muscle-memory reactions to those situations.”