Gees, Raid, I'm anxious to hear about the Showtime, looks like another hot plane--but not cheap. I'm really anxious to find a bird like the Twist, only twice the size. I run a Saito 82a in one of my Twists. I want a Twist I can put a Saito 1.2 or the new 1.25 into. How are you going to power the Showtime? The Saito 100, did you say?

About that effing, smiling pilot of yours: take a torch to his face--at least, THEN, it'll look as if he's paid his dues. You obviously have, Ace.

After many planes with and without pilots or decals for instruments, I've decided to paint ALL my canopies. I have a black one on the Uproar, a red one on the Can Do .60, a black, a green, and an orange for three different Twists, yellow for the Magic, Can Do, and Extra.

I flew the Extra, only, today. Best plane for the wind, which were gusting to 30, and I didn't want to put up the Can Do. I came close. I put her on the road away from the blowing wind while I checked conditions aloft with the Extra, and the "Can Do" decal on the bird kept laughing at me. SHE was willing, but I wasn't. Had the wind not been crossways to the road, I would have put her up. The snow's yet too fluffy to support the skiis.

Yes, 'twas cold, 22, +7 wind chill. But those birds against those clouds....

Jack