| Ben Favrholdt usually goes flying
whenever weather permits, which is quite often in Porterville, California.
He goes up for maybe half an hour, maybe just a couple of circuits. But
they all add up, and the other morning a rather special event took place.
Ben made his 1000th flight in his M-18C Mite, N66MX.
His neighbour, Bill Vandersande, reported "Flight #1000 was a low key event. No champagne, no celebration. That's the way Ben does things. I had to be the one to tell our hangar neighbors about the flight. So, this event went quietly into history." However, at our request Bill took some photos, and here they are. We've included a couple shots of Ben with one of his other airplanes which he is almost finished rebuilding, a very rare AA Cubette, designed and built by a group of American Airlines employees. Congratulations, Ben! Here's hoping you have many more flights. |
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Later that day, Ben sat down at his
computer and sent us these words:
Incidentally, we've learned from David that Ben flew a total of 749 flights in his first Mite, N4092 over a period of 11 years. Too bad that plane was lost in a fire, or Ben would have been closing in on his 2000th flight in the same Mite.
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