These are two pictures of the Air Traveller 4000, the biplane Donald Shimoda, the Messiah, flew in his barnstorming deals in the Richard Bach's book 'Illusions'

Compared with the Fleet Richard flew it's a very different kind of a biplane. This one is clearly larger and heavier than the Fleet, being her MTOW (Maximum Take-Off Weight)  almost twice the Fleet's. Her advantage was she was a three-seater. Donald could fly two passengers in each flight. The drawback, she needed longer landing strips, not very easy to find out...

                                                   

I've not been able to be through 'Illusions' today, so I'm not going to comment anything about it now. And besides, I had an extremely awkward experience yesterday night (in fact, at about 0045- 0:45 AM Saturday) that still has my mind a little bit 'frozen'. Sorry about that...

Love you all

TWRman