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]

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The author and his wife use their light piston airplane, "Annie," as a "time machine" to significantly shorten travel distances and maximize quality time with family.
A recent example highlighted this benefit when they flew their college-age son from a New Jersey rowing competition back to his New Hampshire campus, allowing them to spend an entire day with him.
This aerial travel transformed a five-hour drive into a roughly 1 hour 15 minute flight, enabling them to enjoy extended family time, visit friends, and return home the same evening, an otherwise impossible feat.

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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.