[Qcwa] A little Christmas cheer

walt supina [email protected]
Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:33:56 -0500


At 04:05 PM 12/13/2003, you wrote:
>I am not sure Bob.  I owned an airplane just about 6 years ago that had a
>hole in the gas cap with a piece of wire going through it.  The bottom of
>the wire had a cork stuck on it and the top was bent at a 90 degree angle.
>Sat right outside of the windscreen.  That plane is still flying and almost
>as old as most of us.
>
>73  Jim
>de W5JO
Jim.....sounds like a J-3 Piper Cub.  My kid brother had one.   he and his 
wife flew it from California to
Pennsylvania and followed the interstate highways.   He said it was pretty 
discouraging when he got a headwind and the cars passed him.

73
de Walt N3WS