Mark Jones wrote: > Truly a feeling of pride when you pulled up to the airport with your > plane. Can't wait for your first flight. I bet when you returmed home > to an empty garage, you felt very strange not having it there. It is > kind of like when you realize a child has left home and moved on.
Yep, I'm an empty nester! And a big yes on the pride. I wouldn't call it a crowd, but there was a lot of interest in it at the airport. The lease agreement said "no maintenance", but the mechanic was the first guy to welcome me out and start asking questions. The first thing he said was "oh, yeah...I've seen this thing on the net...with a Corvair engine, right?" He ended up holding the flashlight for me as I installed the WAF bolts, and let me borrow some hemostats to get one of the tough ones in. He volunteered to let me borrow any of his tools I needed in the course of the taxi tests. How's that for warming up instantly! There's only one other homebuilt on the field, and it's an EZ that apparently is rarely seen. The FBO owner commented that my Apollo GPS looked like it had gone "flat". Nothing gets past these guys! I drove my wife's Audi to tow the plane, while she followed in my GTI. Then we ran back home and each carried a wing back. She helped me get the wings installed, and afterward gave me a big hug and said something like "welcome to your dream"... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see homebuilt airplane at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
