Thanks Pete and go to your shop!
Do every single day or night something, even minor things!
Keep on building mode!
Soon it will be one of the most important things in your mind day and
night.
Like a positive drug - soon you cannot live with out it!
(I tried but became very sick and my wife pushed me back to the
workshop)
Years will go and your baby will grow upp, step by step, almost by
itself.
Until one magic moment you will notice there is more already done than
there is still left to do.
117 liters /804 nm (= 117 liters /1487 km)
26 imp g /923 miles
1 imp g /36 miles correct ./.
That is also 7,7 liters /100 km which is like a small car w speed 60 mph
= 96 kmh)
Yes- it is extremely fun but also ecological and economical way to move
---From A to B.
The most important factor for me is also its safety:
I am out of those crowded narrow highways and streets
which are full of other all-not-so-good-drivers. Among them there are
also
drunks and idiots and what so ever like slippery surface roadworks.
When airborne - it depends you only (almost)!
And airspace in Finland is almost unlimited.
Raimo
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Zutrauen
To: europa-list@matronics.com
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 3:21 AM
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Keep on building!
Wow, that works out to almost 36 miles/imperial gallon - impressive!
(unless I made a mistake)
That is an insparational story - maybe I *will* start putting those
parts sitting in my garage into tighter formation this fall after all
:-)
(and I'm still eagerly awaiting my issue of Sport Aviation to envy
Ramio's handywork)
Cheers,
Pete
A239
(still just a pile of parts)
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Raimo Toivio <raimo.toivio@rwm.fi>
wrote:
<raimo.toivio@rwm.fi>
Builders (and those who are planning to build)!
Today I performanced some X-country flying with my 88-years old
uncle, who is a still operative hearth surgeon.
We had 6 legs, all together 6 hrs 23 minutes and 804 nm, with an
average speed 126 knots, total fuel consumption was 117 litres, TOW was
near my MTOW 1450 lbs /658 kgs (we had some heavy tools w us).
After we both feel very relaxed and my uncle stated if he were a
young man again, flying should be a big part of his life. Tower
men/women regularly call my Europa in radio "speedy little
experimental". What a wonderful machine She is!
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