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kerryskyring(at)hotmail.c
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:56 am Post subject: Flying Kitfoxes (but somewhat off topic)

Michel wrote...



(still waiting for a break in the weather, haven't been flying

for 4 weeks and feeling very sick! 



And



D& D Syverson wrote:

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 > It's not the destination, It's the journey...


	


And Richard Bach wrote beautifully about pilots who love to fly to get there 

and pilots who love to fly to, well, to fly. And if we get there it's a 

bonus. And both types are fine by me but I know which group I fall in to. 

Michel, I am barely sustained in these times of no flying by thoughts of 

previous flights. Back in December, one of my last flights in the 

Motorfalke, before the snow/freeze set in, was late afternoon, a fog along 

the Danube, but the airfield was clear, a high layer of cloud but clear in 

the West with the sun going down behind the Alps so they stood out in white 

and dark contrast between the layers of cloud.  I just hung about up there 

soaking it all in until I really had to land. There was another Falke up 

there and later in the club someone started talking about this great sunset 

and we realised we had both been inspired by the beauty of it all and didn't 

want to come down. The circuit bashers in Cessnas and other types hadn't 

noticed a thing.  So the intoxicants of that flight have kept me going but 

your comment about "feeling very sick" alerts me to the fact that if I don't 

get a fix pretty soon I will start to twitch. Yes a bit overdone but there's 

the Kitfox in the hangar ready to go and no sign of the "tauwetter." The Fox 

is a bit faster than the Falke (actually quite a bit) but it will one day 

take me on long, long cross country flights across Europe. Can't wait. 

Kerry. Kitfox builder's helper and soon to be KF pilot.



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Michel

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: Norway

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:44 am Post subject: Flying Kitfoxes (but somewhat off topic)

On Jan 16, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Kerry Skyring wrote:



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		   And Richard Bach wrote beautifully about pilots who love to fly to get 

 there

 and pilots who love to fly to, well, to fly.


	


Gosh! Whenever I have been travelling or sailing, Kerry, I had with me 

two small books: The Little Prince from St. Exupery (also a pilot) and 

Bach's Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. In fact, the company I am working 

for now, is called Seagull, in honour of the book. The company was 

founded by a friend who also loved the idea to "fly to reach beyond."



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		   The Fox is a bit faster than the Falke (actually quite a bit) but it 

 will one day

 take me on long, long cross country flights across Europe. Can't wait.


	


If the wind brings you up north, friend, you know how to find me!



Cheers,

Michel



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kerryskyring(at)hotmail.c
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:10 am Post subject: Flying Kitfoxes (but somewhat off topic)

Michel wrote



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If the wind brings you up north, friend, you know how to find me!


	


Hi Michel,

One day my plan is to fly north and I will definitely find the Norwegian 

Fox. And I too have read everything by Bach and St. Ex. Still cold, still no 

thaw.

K.

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