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Old 7th Nov 2017, 16:56
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mary meagher
 
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Very pleased to hear that! It was only ten years old when I arranged to buy it at Georgetown Texas....in 1987! It had flown very few hours in those ten years, being kept in a hangar in Arizona...which you might supposed was a good thing, but it wasn't! because it needed a rebuild when we got it to High Wycombe (in a box on a boat, of course) .(.flying a Cub across an ocean would not be sensible.) Also leaving it without much exercise in a hangar for ten years isn't sensible either. Since the rebuild at Booker, they wanted a tug with a bigger engine to haul up the heavier gliders, so we found a new home at a club near Banbury. Colin Hales looked after it for me there.

I flew it to Alicante and back, that first year, in February. Took seven days each way, very dodgy weather in February. Only got lost once.
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