The "Get-The-Flit-Kit" Odyssey

Gettin' Ready

After talking with Joe at Wings Of Freedom, I built a rack on the pickup. In a couple of days I was off to Ohio.

The trip went fine. I arrived just after noon on Wednesday.

New Friends and Old

While I was getting to know Mark (on the right) and Joe (on the left), the folks who run Wings Of Freedom, Chuck S...(too many consonants) Primary Bratwurst Buyer of CGS, arrived in his space-time machine!
Sorry about the picture quality. I'm still learing to use this camera. Though, perhaps, it's best Chuck's face not be too visible...

We load up the Flit-transporter


That's Ed Fisher's prototype, apart, on a trailer, in the background.

Headin' Home

I didn't want to leave. Mark and Joe turned out to be great folks. And, with Chuck's arrival, our fun-sharing-quotent went off the scale. But it was time to go.

The trip back to Illinois was horrible. Wind and rain all the way. The roads weren't all dry 'till I got near the Indiana/Illinois line. Tornado warnings were posted in OH counties I'd just passed through!

Under normal circumstances, I might have done a 180 and chased some weather. But I was hauling a precious load.

I drove straight through. And got home just before dawn.

Home At Last


The Flitplane sees its new home.

Still filled with highway adrenaline, I stayed up 'till dawn.

Dawn breaks over the Flit-Kit arrival.

"Her Podness" Linda, my beloved wife, awoke to survey the change in our net-worth.

Linda likes airplanes.


Then I crashed. It had been a long day. I slept about 12 hours!

On Thursday I moved in.

The parts were off the truck, and it was time for some fantasy.

I used the fantasy time to plan an instrument panel.


The compass goes up near the top longeron.


And the main panel is tied into the engine support tubes.
It works for my tri-focals...

Coming Soon, Primer Painting the Fuselage.

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