About the Builder
My love of flying didn't come at an early age as sometimes is the case. My wife and I had been married a little over two years when she came home one day, upset with work, and said we should just join the Air Force. Of course I told her she was crazy. Then a couple of weeks later I came home from work upset and said we should just join the Air Force. So....We DID! Leaving Knoxville for basic training was my first airplane ride and the airplane bug took hold big time during basic training. I remember watching all those airplanes taking off and landing, as I was trying to remember my "right" from my "left" while learning to march. I have been looking at the sky ever since. We were both crew chiefs on McDonnell Douglas RF4C Phantoms and spent all our time with the 363 OMS at Shaw AFB in SC. At Shaw I joined the Aero Club and earned my Private Pilots license then added a Commercial and Instrument rating and then several years later I added a Glider Rating.
Currently all my flying is from the SkyRanch (TN98) in Knoxville TN.
My first homebuilt project was a Moni Motorglider. 
The Moni was completed in 1989 after three years and 1000 hours of labor. Power was a 2 cylinder 2 cycle KFM engine that had 30 HP. Cruise was about 105 mph and red line was 150 mph. The one seat motorglider with a 27 foot wingspan was designed to cut the engine off and glide at a ratio of 18 to 1. I hardly ever did that because it is real hard to cut a engine off when nothing is wrong with it!!
