"Flash" wrote in message
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"Lou" wrote in message
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Every time I read the completion bits in Sport Aviation and
Kitplanes,
everyone keeps thanking their wives for support, patience and
help. Mine keeps asking why I'm wasting my time and looks for other
things for me to do. My wife complains about a plane sitting on my
half of the garage instead
of my car although it takes up less room than the car.
Every builder I've met is either divorced or on the verge of
divorce. One
builder I met almost brags that he has built 3 planes and has had 3
divorces.
I've already decided that when I finish my plane, that I will thank my
wife
for making me want to be anywhere but in the same room with her, so I
used
the time to build a plane.
So, where are all these wonderful woman I only read about? Are
they
fictitious? Are the husbands being nice because they know that their
wives
are going to read the blurb under the picture? Or did these wives
really drive
a few rivets, glue some wood, or sand the fiberglass. My guess it that
they are
really out shopping, for a lawyer.
Lou



I do hope you are kidding, Lou.

I knew of a builder here who built and flew five; and his love for his
airplanes, and aviation in general, was exceeded only by his love for his
(only) wife, whose presence in his life preceeded aircraft. Precedent in
every way.



Flash


Lou: I've found one. Not only did she get me the plans for my Baby Belle
helicopter, she has 20hrs dual. Knowing that I like to go to airshows, she
figured out something for herself and we now publish the Experimental Helo
Magazine, of which she is a major contributor. I occasionally go to Sun'n
Fun without her but that is the only show that we aren't together. She is
urging me to get my helicopter transmission re-build finished and she
believes that it's priority is higher than the few "honey dos" that are
hanging fire. She was very much company and crew when we had a sailboat and
was the first to volunteer going up the mast when we had a runaway halyerd.
We are pretty much together 24/7 and while others have commented on that, I
hadn't thought about it. It just felt like that was the way it should be.
I think that I may have got the last one in existence though and she is not
my first mate, but she is my LAST MATE.

Lucky Stu