In a message dated 10/19/98 12:21:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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>  I tried to teach myself
>  to fly model airplanes and crashed them several times before I gave
>  up--I was spending an hour of repair time for every thirty seconds of
>  flight (thankfully I got an instructor for learning to fly the real
>  ones...).

And having been flown around by Bruce I can in good health and of sound limb
continue to attest that formal lessons do work.

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