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Michel
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Location: Norway
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 Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:52 am Post subject: Flying Kitfoxes |
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On Jan 14, 2006, at 8:02 PM, jdmcbean wrote:
| Quote: | One of my favorites... If you LOVE flying then why are you in such a
hurry
to get there ?
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Exactly! Good to see we agree on this one. Anyway, after sailing all my
life at 5 to 6 knots, flying a Kitfox at 70 knots is like ... the speed
of light! 
Cheers,
Michel (still waiting for a break in the weather, haven't been flying
for 4 weeks and feeling very sick!
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: Flying Kitfoxes |
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Amen Lowell it is the journey not the destination. That's why they charge
by the hour for rent, tours etc. Unfortunately my job has prevented my
flying a cessna that I own beyond the borders of my own state. I hope to
extend my range to washington this summer for the eaa fly in at Arlington.
By the way if you come up the coast I can assist with gas, transportation,
etc. at (OTH) North Bend or Lakeside airport in Oregon. Ron NB Ore
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| Quote: | From: "Lowell Fitt" <lcfitt(at)sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: kitfox-list(at)matronics.com
To: <kitfox-list(at)matronics.com>
Subject: Re: Flying Kitfoxes Was: Bummin' on Empty Weight
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:44:19 -0800
I love my little airplane. I've spend nine yours in a day getting where I
want to go and low enough to see where I went. I guess I'll never
understand the pilots that profess a love of flying, but want to spend as
little time in their airplanes as they can.
Lowell
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ddsyverson(at)comcast.net
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: Flying Kitfoxes |
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Michel, John & everyone else,
This has got to be one of my favorites. Can't tell you how many times I have
heard talk from some folks about going faster, getting there faster, its not
fast enough yet, if only a couple more knots, etc, etc, etc. If getting into
the sky to play is what we do - why hurry to get back on the ground and get
it over with?!?!.
It's not the destination, It's the journey...
I have no scientific proof, But I am pretty sure that time spent aloft does
not count as time against our lifespan.
Dave S
St Paul
On Saturday 14 January 2006 1:52 pm, Michel Verheughe wrote:
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On Jan 14, 2006, at 8:02 PM, jdmcbean wrote:
> One of my favorites... If you LOVE flying then why are you in such a
> hurry
> to get there ?
Exactly! Good to see we agree on this one. Anyway, after sailing all my
life at 5 to 6 knots, flying a Kitfox at 70 knots is like ... the speed
of light!
Cheers,
Michel (still waiting for a break in the weather, haven't been flying
for 4 weeks and feeling very sick!
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Michel
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 966
Location: Norway
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:29 am Post subject: Flying Kitfoxes |
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On Jan 14, 2006, at 11:42 PM, D& D Syverson wrote:
| Quote: | It's not the destination, It's the journey...
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Well said, Dave. Mind you, I see the same in the yachting world. A
friend of mine had a sailboat and I asked once if we should sail
together to Denmark. It's so far away, it would take a long time, he
answered. Not if you start early in the morning and sail to sunset, I
said. What? I don't get up early when I am on holiday! was his final
objection.
.. Well, I love to get up early and come to the yacht harbour or
airfield at dawn, there is something magical about it.
My friend now has a speed boat that does 40 knots. He can come in the
Norwegian archipelago in ... five or ten minutes. Then he can stop
there and ... wait for the evening.
I sailed alone from Norway to Spain, and back. I had a great time. Last
summer, I flew my Kitfox from Norway to Belgium and back and had a
terrific time. Each time I landed, I felt sorry that, that leg had
already come to an end. There is nothing like being up there, why make
it short?
Cheers,
Michel
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