MICHAEL SKY DANLEY was born in Peoria, Illinois — a town so ordinary that Hollywood producers would famously ask, “but how will it play in Peoria?”

During his childhood, Sky’s father worked as a computer programmer for the company that built NASA‘s Onboard Apollo Guidance Computer, the technological marvel that enabled man‘s dream to soar to the moon.

This engineering feat motivated Sky’s lifelong passion for aviation.  Sky even attempted, with his childhood friend, to build a rocket propelled flying bicycle.

Continuing this passion, Sky attended Purdue University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, majoring in aerodynamics and minoring in rocket propulsion.

After completing a NASA contract for the computer modeling of air flow, Sky entered and served as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, earning his wings as a USAF Pilot.

Sky later flew as a Captain for the legendary Trans World Airlines (TWA), an airline once owned by the famed Howard Hughes and forever christened “The Airline of the Stars.”

Also drawn to the Stars, Sky dreamed of producing and directing Hollywood stories, and with that goal, he enrolled at Harvard University and earned dual Master’s Degrees in Film/Studio-Arts and Business Management.

Concentrating on the business of story, Sky wrote his Harvard masters thesis while at the Walt Disney Studio in Burbank, California, where he documented and catalogued the unique creation process of Walt’s original 1930s story department, which emphasized the visual over dialogue.

Sky continues this visual story interest today, writing two award-winning children’s picture books and producing a gold-medal winning 17-minute animated children's film about an inventor moose who overcomes adversity and builds the world’s first flying bicycle, a cartoon Sky hopes will encourage today’s children to become tomorrow’s innovators, and thus creating a future where dreams can soar…