Stealth Pilot wrote:

mark is the isolation of the mojave desert one of rutan's best aids to
invention?

That's an interesting question. I hadn't thought about it. To tell you
the truth, I don't think so - he does a lot of traveling; there are
always folks coming in for visits, and I think that he's one of those
guys that would be productive/inventive locked in a box on the top of
Mt. Everest, or stuck in the middle of Manhattan. And while Mojave is
small, I wouldn't call it isolated (and I say that as someone that grew
up in NY and lived in Boston for 30 years).

if he worked in the bustle of LA, for instance, do you think he'd be
anywhere near as innovative or productive?

Yeah. I don't think it would matter :-).

me, I just love working in my workshop without any television in
earshot.

Agreed, although when I was building my Q2, I had the radio on full
blast all the time, either rock or news. However, building the COZY, I
liked it quiet.

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Marc J. Zeitlin
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