[6] Scott was accepted to go to Randolph Field in San Antonio, Texas and attend flight school in order to obtain an aircraft instrument rating.

[7] In August and September 1944, Scott participated in several domestic evacuation flights, taking wounded soldiers from the Pacific coast to the eastern United States and vice versa.

On October 18, 1944, he was assigned to a C-47 to be ferried from Bangor, Maine to join the Air Transport Group based at Le Bourget in Paris, France.

Scott’s duties while based at Le Bourget included delivering supplies to airfields near the front lines and flying wounded personnel to England.

His wife also developed into an expert archer in her own right, and they would eventually win the husband/wife team trophy in the state championships in Odessa in 1959 with Boots’ individual, second-place finish.

[14] Scott purchased a variety of sailplanes over the next several decades, and competed in several national and World Gliding Championships in different glider competition classes.

On February 8, 2003, Scott died in Odessa, Texas, at the age of 78 after contracting pneumonia; he had flown nearly 7,000 hours and over 300,000 miles[17] in sailplanes during his life.