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Arksey(at)aol.com
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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject: Ohio Ralph

Hi Ralph,,

    I am 75 years old and starting flying when i was  16, but very little time in ultra light type.  These were my 1st in  the firestar...I think it is going to be great fun....sounds like you are doing  fine...I think once a person gets use to the plane that the ride in windy  conditions  will spice life up a bit and a person will feel confident with  what he knows he can handle..  now that i know i can get in the air and  back on land i am going to do some manauvers with it and see what i can  learn...   thanks for your input.

  

 jswan FS ll

 mich.

  

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 attached is pic of grandson and myself and plane

  

 "For once  you have tasted flight, You will walk this earth with your eyes turned skyward.  For there you have been, And there you long to return."

Thanks for  your email Jim Swan 6147 Wilcox Rd., Eaton Rapids, Mi 48827 ph 517-663-8488  email arksey(at)aol.com

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jsflan(at)valornet.com
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:13 am Post subject: Ohio Ralph

Arksey,    

  

     Got you by a year  and also started at 16. Full length cast on one football-broken leg took me out  of flying then and didn't get back for some time. And, UL-types are new to me  after 3K hours flying SELs shooting land forms as aerial art from Alaska to Cabo  San Lucas where I wouldn't want my airplane today. Glad there are still a few  Old F____'s going upstairs. Here's a jpg of resting pelicans from yesterday's  shoot over the Rio Grande just north of Elephant Butte Reservoir here in New  Mexico.

  

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Ralph Hoover

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 206
Location: Central Ohio

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: Ohio Ralph

jswan FS ll 

mich. 

Sorry for the delay in responding to your e-mail. Which of the two "elderly gentlemen" are you? The one with the Mich.  (yuck) shirt and camo pants or the better looking one with the flat brimmed baseball cap and the "smerk on your face"! Ha, HA!



Ohio Ralph



P.S. Nice plane in the background!

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Arksey(at)aol.com
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:26 am Post subject: ohio Ralph

Thanks for the report and pictures Ralph...Why did you not  stay for the home comming? 

 jswan firestar ll  mi.

  

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Ralph Hoover

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Posts: 206
Location: Central Ohio

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:49 am Post subject: Re: Ohio Ralph

Jay, Your welcome.



 I had prior commitments back here for both Friday and Saturday. I was under the impression when I left with a close friend on Wednesday that we would end up staying for Thursday also. As it was, we arrived shortly after noon and had the blessing of both Denny and Travis for the next four hours, seeing everything. I had no expectation that they would give us that much one on one. But every time we would start to give our "good-by's" Denny would show us something else or we would get on to another topic of a modification like on the Mark III where they moved the "flaps" handle up higher between the seats to allow better access. And then they would show us the landing lights built into the nose of the Mark - III or the cantilevered alerons / flaps and the smoothness. Or how they took the side by side seat bucket package and turned it inside out to make the smooth side up. Or the new gap seal for the firestar. 



At first, I felt their asking price was way too high for a sheet of plastic. But as they explained, the Aluminum face (leading edge), the clear or smoked lexan and the springs, the velcro and the bracing, I discovered how reasonable it really was. Or the cloth type with zippers. 



They covered so much without a crowd there with the two of us that we did everything in just four hours. We left about 4:30 P.M., stopped to get a bite and drove (yuck) back home. I arrived at my place at 9:45 P.M.



I would really like to meet the individuals that I communicate with on this site and see their handy work. When I was part of the Harley world, I never felt that any other interest could be so personalized. When I came to the Kolb world, I had never known how personalized things can become and still fly. I will still get to at least one of these, Good Lord willing, but then hoopefully flying into the fly-in!



Ohio Ralph

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