This is Ed, whom I first met in 1978. Ed is looking forward to flying the Stemme...if the wing fittings he's inspecting here pass muster. Ed is in his 80's now and has been retired since 1979. No grass grows under his feet, though: he's building a new airplane in an outbuilding on the ranch. He has a fund of great flying stories stretching back six decades and more; many are thought to be true. His neighbor Jim, a blacksmith, says: "I've been stopping by Ed's place every morning for 12 years, and he hasn't run out of stories yet."