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To: Tommaso who wrote (145223)	1/23/2002 11:59:30 AM
From: Earlie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Tommmaso: Your morse code is lousy (YZ is what you sent). (g) It is indeed a small world. The aircraft you went out to look at is exactly the airplane I have built. It is called the "Venture" and it is indeed as fast as many of the WW2 planes. It has two seats and goes like an artillery shell. The funny thing is that I also used to fly down to Greensboro every few weeks, just to help out and keep track of progress on the prototype, so we may well have bumped into each other. The guy who designed it is a close friend of thirty years and is the "best of the best" as far as I am concerned. Incidentally, one of the major mags will publish an article I wrote about flying the Venture in its upcoming April issue. PM me if interested. Loved reading about your early adventures into the hi fi world. I hope you are justifiably proud of having been a "home-brewer". Many of the guys I respect the most are engineers who got started in exactly that same way. I feel sorry for the folks who have never experienced the agony and the joys of building something with their own hands... and (finally) getting it to work! Your approach and mine are similar with respect to tech. I truly revel in it. Like you, I keep looking for what might be the next "generic" tech sector from which huge new products and services might spring. As noted earlier, I actually identified GPS very early as one of the best I had ever come upon, but screwed up by investing a bit too aggressively and a bit too "early" in some of the early participants. Lost some dough and then started second guessing myself, so missed several good opportunites. Such is life. I did catch a nifty Canuck GPS situation in its early days and enjoyed a delightful ride, so there are no complaints. What works even better of course is to get a good ride on several of them as the generic tech starts to spread. Haven't seen anything during the last three years that has got me excited but I keep on looking. I get at least 25 tech start-up business plans a month to peruse, which really helps with ideas. What I do know is that it pays to keep one's eyes and mind open. One never knows where the next wondrous tech idea will come from. Besides which, it is a ball just to (try to) keep up with what's going on. (g) Best, Earlie