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To: Tommaso who wrote (160306)	4/16/2002 7:02:12 PM
From: Earlie	Respond to of 436258

Tommaso: I live on the shores of Lake Ontario, so the distance isn't quite so long. Still, it is a consequential hop. Delightfully, my little homebuilt rocket covers the ground at close to five miles per minute, so it got me down there in well under five hours flying time,.... even with a bunch of weather dodging. The plane is capable of covering the distance non-stop, but I did make a stop (to check on weather) each way. On the way home, I had to angle northwest out of Florida darned near out to the Mississippi River before I could make the turn back to the north, but even with that, it was an afternoon's flight. The little dickens sure eats distance. (g) No auto-pilot installed yet, so IFR flying is out of the question. I should have it in soon. Could have used it a bunch as the weather both ways was "marginal VFR". By the way, the design was actually conceived and born in Greensboro. I used to skip down there every few weeks on the week-ends just to hang around and watch the prototype being built. As all of us on this thread have commented many times, and as you have underlined, Gretch is a "class lady" Best, Earlie