29 Sep 97 14:41, Roger Marshall was yackin' to Ian Macaulay and said:
 RM>  It's always interesting hearing from you - I have learned that
 RM> you're a dedicated modeler in several fields, but you've NEVER
 RM> had one of your birds in the air - is that right ??  Could it be
 RM> that you are a "loner" and that nobody else in your locale enjoys
 RM> "normal" things ??
Yep I think that about sums it up. I 'm not so much a loner as alone.
I just don't go anywhere that I really don't have to.
 RM> environmental control beaurocracy.  We only have one landing
 RM> strip at present, 600 feet X 100 feet
Hell! My whole swamp area is only 800 foot by 200. Half of it is water.
I guess I'll have one of them STOL strips:-)
 RM>  closely mowed and with 100
 RM> feet higher grass at each end - set into the mowed strip is a 300
 RM> x 25 paved portion for DF takeoff
I am still thinking of a harder surface but Can't think of any other excuse 
for building one except as a runway.  Must appease my wife with my 
expenditures:-)
 RM>  Yep, takes a lot of water and fertilizer for good grass - we
 RM> have a similar problem with grass growth - all our "soil" is
 RM> mostly sand and no nutrients - a soil analysis said we need
 RM> "everything except sand".
So it does grow though. I don't have sand but a mixture of peat, decaying 
wood bits and ash and clay.  All dredged and apparantly all leached of growth 
hormones.  It was a dry summer though.
 RM>  My wife estimates that I have spent about the same (gr) - one of
 RM> these days, she is going to retaliate - oh, boy, there goes the
 RM> bank account !! Let us know your progress on your airport and
 RM> your success in getting a bird airborne.  TTYL - Roger
Now don't hold your breath waiting. I've been building that strip for about 8 
years and the last attempt at flying was about that long ago as well.  I have 
had others fly outa here so i atleast know my air is good.
Have you run into anymore of them Staggerwings yet.  I still have mine NIB in 
the rafters of my (soon to be old) shop.  I actually have four birds waiting 
on me now.  I got my own gentle lady, the thing called a puddle master that 
Larry Marshall sorta talked me into getting, The staggerwing and a lazybee.
Sheesh and I haven't toughed my stamp collection in three years either
allabes
Ian Macaulay
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