Barnyard BOb - wrote in message . ..
FLYBABY...
ULTIMATE dream plane?

Don't know what yer smokin', Bob, but....
could you send some to Kansas City? g


Your customs agents just don't appreciate them Cuban cigars my friend, or I would send yoou a few. Sorry.


I enjoyed my Flybaby for what it was 40 years ago.
The dream, and the open cockpit was unique, but....
the dream and honeymoon were very short lived.
It was slow, far from aerobatic and damn cold for
too much of the year to be user friendly for me.


Your describing my cup of tea. Simple cheap flying. I'm a Canadian
UL pilot. About the middle between your UL and Sport Pilot
privelages. I can't legally carry passengers unless they are licensed
pilots themselves. My license training, plane, GPS, radio, helmet,
cost me much less than a decent Lycoming for a RV (a finer aeroplane
and company do not exist at normal levels of cost).

I never could bring myself to relax with the maze
of floppy flying wires. No loops, no rolls, no spins...
and after 100 hours, the boredom did me in.

There is a difference between living and being ALIVE.

I am alive when 1000 feet up and looking at the Canadian Rockies
glowing on one tip and a few thousand square miles of emergency fields
of dryland prairie on the other while spotting a big buck in the river
valley. A simple UL would be enough if they didn't have those
infernal 2 strokes and our area didn't have the sturdy mountain
breezes that blow regularly from dawn to dusk.

YMMV.


Barnyard BOb - an RV grin is the ULTIMATE

Hard to argue that one Bob.