The Mooney’s baggage compartment has a ûsmallish door, but pretty good space inside. ûStill, a bicycle?

Sometimes the amazing thing about airplanes is that they fly at all. Aerodynamicists will tell you how lift is created, engineers will demonstrate how power is related to speed, but any pilot will tell you there are two things necessary to make airplanes fly: brains and money.

The money part is as predictable as it is essential. But the brainwork is a little less concrete. Many very smart people have tried and failed at the task of being safe, competent pilots. Many very fine pilots are on the short end of what old-timers might call “book smarts.” …