>Nice! I think our Arrow's cruising speed ia about 135-140 knots ... I forget what that is in mph. How long did it take you to build your plane? I guy in our old neighborhood built a Kit Fox, took him 13 years!!! Another guy in our old neighborhood is building something (I'm sorry, I can't remember what it is ... I don't think it's an RV though) ... anyway, he's planning on it taking him 4 years. I think he's got less than 2 to go.

135 knots is very respectable and nothing wrong with that. Well, my years building don't really count because I built two houses, and two other airplanes since I had started it. I took 16 years, but most build these in just a couple of years. Especially now with the newer pre-punched matched hole kits that don't require any jigs. I took almost 10 years of that time building two other airplanes.


>We flew to Montana to go to Glacier Nat'l Park in July for a weekend ... this is when we still lived in Washington (Ellensburg ... 100 miles east of Seattle). Only took us about 2 hours. We took Ken Levy with us (his brother's a pilot, so he doesn't mind flying in little planes <g>) ... it was our annual photography trip with him. Next year we will be doing more trips like that ... (with or without Ken <g>). I just think it's cool to go somewhere for a weekend trip that you'd normally have to take several vacation days off work if you drove in a car.>

This is why my wife likes my plane is because she can get somewhere for the weekend that she couldn't do otherwise. One of our grandsons is in Ok and really too far to go get him in the car for the weekend. But hey I can do Saturday morning and be back before lunch. I didn't realize Ken Levy was a pilot. Don't know him well, but have sat at dinner with him a few years back.

>Our company actually has an office in Austin. But when they asked us to relocate from Washington, they gave us two choices: Austin or Hillsboro. No contest. <g> We haven't had to visit the Austin office, ever. But, we have flown the Arrow down to our corporate office in Pleasanton, CA a couple of times.

Austin is a very nice town but a bit hot in the summer. East Texas is very green and not as hot or as muggy. Summer mornings and evenings just can't get any better though. Truthfully without the Cascade Mountain Range, I need to use my Auto Pilot more because there isn't anything to point at down here. Besides that, I sure don't miss the snow and cold weather I had in Bend.

Tim