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 dramatically reduces travel time, allowing the author to transform a five-hour car journey into just over an hour of flight.
This time-saving capability enables significantly more quality time with family, such as spending a full day with a college-age son after a sporting event.
Airplane ownership provides unique travel flexibility, making spontaneous, longer visits possible and allowing for convenient same-day returns that ground travel would not permit.

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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.