I just got back from Arlington 98. We had pretty good turnout of coupes there, probably about 10 different coupes showed up, but not all at the same time.
I had a chance to meet Percy for the first time, and we managed to find enough of each other to eat together. Arlington seems to get bigger and bigger each year. I have no idea how many planes were there, but there were so many that I felt like I really didn't see many of them. An interesting side note was that one guy stopped by, and while admiring my coupe told me he had one too, but his main plane was a Velocity. Actually, he OWNED Velocity the COMPANY! and flew his coupe for kicks. The first day the weather was perfect, not too hot, not too cold. As the days went on, it got colder and the ceilings lower, until on Sat when I left it was IFR and then scud until about 3, at which time things lifted up to about 2500. The camping was fun, I met lots of new coupers, and the flying was fun too! I now have a small taste of Oshkosh, and I didn't have to fly 1600 miles for it! -Tom
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