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Cool... very cool about JoAnn Painter. Snopercod, remember meeting her and her husband Wes at SMX a few years back? They were among the Hamlins' guests. They are Pietenpol experts.

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I don't recall meeting Wes Painter, sorry. Maybe that was the year I was doing all the errands and stuff.

I flew in to Mohave in 1985 with some friends to see the Voyager under construction. It was a fun trip.

Leaving out of there was interesting, since I was flying a rented 172 carrying 4 people on a 104 degree day. It took a good portion of the 9500' runway to break ground, then I never could get any higher than 6500'.