An odyssey and home again.
By Dave Martin
I tried to fly it. That didn’t work. Then I decided to send it by train.
Little Green and Big Blue show up for their date with the train-bound Spacewalker II.
That’s a short summary of my lengthy attempt to transfer our Spacewalker II open-cockpit taildragger from Oregon to its new owner, Scott Dingman, in Ohio. (We needed space in our hangar for our new RV-12.) Plan A had been to drive it in a large leased truck. That’s how builder Kent Pyle of Missouri had delivered it to us in 2003. He had never flown near high mountains, and I didn’t recommend it.
After checking out the reserved truck, I devised Plan B to avoid five days of driving the hard-seat diesel for 8 to 10 hours a day. Plan B recruited neighbor/retired Air Force fighter pilot/Long-EZ driver Joe Dubner to fly with me to Ohio. He had never experienced an open cockpit or a taildragger and readily agreed to go along, even after…
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