Finding Your Ideal Aircraft That’s An Aluminum-Clad Time Machine

Flying lets you fit more activities into each day.

Jonathan Welsh

Monday, April 10, 2023 at 01:05 PM ET

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Sometimes squeezing more activities into each day means flying home after dark. [Credit: Jonathan Welsh]

Key Takeaways:

A light piston airplane acts as a "time machine," significantly reducing travel time and allowing for more quality time with family.
The author recounts an experience flying their college son from New Jersey to New Hampshire, transforming a five-hour drive into an hour-and-fifteen-minute flight.
This enabled them to spend an entire day with their son and return home the same evening, an impossibility with conventional driving.

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Over the weekend my wife and I experienced the magical power of a light piston airplane to add hours to the day. At least that is how it felt.

On Sunday morning our college-age son’s rowing team was competing close to home in New Jersey where it was easy for us to watch and spend a few minutes catching up before he had to get on the bus and head back to campus in New Hampshire. It is a five-hour drive by car, longer on the bus. But there was a tempting wrinkle.