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	TAKING FLIGHT Great Bend man bringing aircraft to life


	This kit plane was built by Bill Mead of Great Bend. In the picture, he’s doing a “taxi check”, before putting on the engine cowling and the doors. In the right seat is his brother Bob Mead. View Larger

Bill Mead spent Tuesday afternoon in the pilot’s seat. He wasn’t flying, yet, but was performing a “taxi check” on his newly completed kit-built experimental aircraft. “We were just going up and down the runway,” he said. The plane is a 6ES Coyote, produced by the Rans Corporation in Hays. The two-seater has a maximum speed of about 120 miles per hour and can fly as high as 14,000 feet. “It’s classified as a light ...

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