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A friend in the late '60s flew from Connecticut to LA in a Piper Cub with his 18 year old buddy. The 18 year old had been given the plane by his father in a basket and was told he could have it if he could put it together and fly it. His father had several planed, mostly sea planes as part of his company. The were called a goose or something like that and two engines high on the wings. Anyway, the kid got the plane together and had been accepted into an aircraft mechanic & air frame school in the LA area and wanted to bring the plane there. The two of them flew across country using road maps and the southern route when they got into the southwest. As I remember they would look for motels along the way with fields behind them, land behind it & stay there overnight. They also stayed in some small airports & in one abandoned Air Force base. The plane had a wire that stuck up out of the gas tank they watched for when the tank was getting low. They flew along beside big rigs along the highways in the southwest deserts. Said the truck drivers were pretty surprised. I don't know how embellished the story was, but they did it. My friend also rode trains across the country several times - once he brought his girl friend. I got to go flying off & along the coast of S.D. a couple of times in the plane.
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Marv Evans
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