On Feb 5, 11:00 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
I just returned from one of the hardest evenings of my life. Mary, my
kids, and I just attended the visitation for Blane Anderson, our
friend and fellow pilot who lost his life in the crash of a Spencer
Air Car (and amphibious homebuilt craft) last Friday, just west of
Iowa City. He was less than 20 minutes from home when his plane went
down, hard.

Charles Lindbergh said, "I decided that if I could fly for ten years
before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an
ordinary lifetime." He challanged the Atlantic on a single engine and
flew for decades. A few years ago a fiance of mine, a young lady with
two children, started out on a "riskless" 30 mile drive on an
interstate highway and did not survive. In our grief we look for a
reason. There is none except that death waits for us all. We look for
something or someone to blame. Aviation is easy to blame, but
aviation is not death. Aviation has brought life to many, both
figuratively and literally.
--
Gene Seibel
Gene & Sue's Flying Machine - http://pad39a.com/gene/
Because we fly, we envy no one.