On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:52:13 GMT, "kd5sak"
wrote:

Actually, I am not. Though I'm interested, the wife has forbidden me to
pursue any such activity. Since I'm 74, I've decided she's probably right in
her position. I probably won't last long enough to build a craft and I'm
certainly too tight to buy a ready-made.

You may have waited a bit long, but it's not irretrievable. I soloed
at 67, and seven years later I'm still going strong.

You don't buy a plane! You rent one!

The first step is to make sure that you and your wife have separate
bank accounts and credit cards. You don't ask her what she spends at
Talbot's; she doesn't ask what you spend at the airport. With luck,
your marriage might actually last for a few years