just under the wire

It's 11pm in eastern time. I really want to get a posting in every day so " get it up" LloydLou. The weather really is storming here tonite. I flew the PA-28 today in the rain. I also put up a new You Tube video, and it was a song about flying so my blog and my You Tubing kind of crossed today. Enough about me. Let's talk about my airplane. Why did I buy my 'Coupe Cadet? I had no money. I had just retired from my job. I had just retired from my job! That's reason no. 1. No. 2 is I always wanted an Alon A-2 and watched them in trade a plane for the last 30 yrs. An Alon A-2 is a refined Ercoupe and a Mooney M-10 Cadet is a refined Alon. 3. This airplane found me through a friend who was charged with the job of annualling it and finding a buyer for it. I bought it before it was ever put up for sale. I was just about to buy a little glider from this friend when the Cadet came into our lives. 4. I told my wife about this new used toy and she thought it was very cute and said we should buy it. 5. It has rudder pedals. 6. It was somewhat affordable, not as cheap as that Colt I was telling you about. 7. The original Ercoupe design, which the Cadet basically is, goes back to the 30's and the airplane is a genuine antique. I could talk a real long time about the ercoupe, but I won't tonight. 8. I grew up about 4 miles from the factory that made about 5,000 of these planes in the post-war era. 9. When I was a kid, the first plane I rented after I had a Private was an Alon A-2. 10. You can open the canopy in flight, like a convertable. 11. I can take it to fly-ins and it's always a hit and people say "what is it? An Ercoupe? A Mooney?" And I say, " Yes. Yes".