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GHawk -- there you go again being reasonable. Geez, you could have your 
"List" privileges revoked if you make a habit of behavior like that.

Sky2high@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/20/2006 6:00:38 A.M. Central Standard Time, 
> jackcowell@optonline.net writes:
> 
>     True, Peter Garrison is a writer for an aviation magazine that largely
>     deals with GA aircraft and related topics. Garrison also has built and
>     flown at least two of his own experimental Melmoth airplanes
>     however, so
>     it wouldn't seem that he has much of a bias against experimental
>     aircraft.
> 
> and
>  
> In a message dated 5/20/2006 6:11:17 A.M. Central Standard Time, 
> tom.gourley@verizon.net writes:
> 
>     I'm generally in agreement with your posts, and enjoy your writing
>     style, but I'm inclined to think Peter Garrison is not unduly biased
>     against experimental airplanes.  True, he does write for Flying, but
>     he has designed and built two of his own airplanes.  That sounds
>     pretty experimental to me.
> 
>  
> Jack and Tom,
>  
> Yeah, see what happens when someone goes off half cocked (or was that 
> crocked).  I did read this:
>  
> *Peter Garrison’s Melmoth 2
> *After 21 years of on again, off again construction time, Flying 
> magazine writer Peter Garrison finally completed his all-composite 
> Melmoth 2—and after a last minute paint job, flew it to Oshkosh where it 
> was displayed in front of Flying’s colorful pavilion. Powered by a 
> 200-hp Continental TSIO-360-A, Melmoth 2 is a long distance cruiser: its 
> wing holds 142 gallons of fuel! 
> 
> Peter’s article on the airplane was the cover story in the August 2003 
> issue of Flying.
> 
> And also:
> 
> http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaanews/pr/030528_melmoth.html
> 
> I am sure he thinks his airplane is superior in every way.  So I will 
> change my argument to one that would take into account his self-interest 
> in his self-crafted craft.  Perhaps a different bias.
> 
> Otherwise, here we are just 5 months into 2006 and I am wrong again.  
> OK, I withdraw all commentary about Mr. Garrison leanings since I have 
> not read his stuff.  Here, at the institution, the library is limited to 
> magazines like _Psychiatry Today_ with articles such as "Flights of 
> Fancy are Almost Normal",  "Meditation Can Lead to Less Navel Lint" or 
> "Medication Can Calm Your Nerves When Someone Else is Landing the 
> Plane." Hmmmm, did I mis-place some title words?
> 
> Grayhawk
> 
> Oh, they are coming to up my meds now........
>