Little Traveler I .....October 10, 2009

The Plan:  Fly a modified Sterling "Minnie Mambo" on a 15 mile non-stop flight from the back of a pick-up truck to raise money for St Jude Children's research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

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I thought, at first, to makes several hops to get the 15 miles.  Then, a friend started pushing me to make the entire flight in one hop.  Here is the Minnie before I knocked out the bulkhead to make room for the 4 ounce Sullivan Tank that let us go non-stop.









I replaced the kit's sheet metal landing gear with music wire, mounted in a hardwood torsion block in the fuselage.