Elsewhere in this issue, we're bantering around the phrase "adventure aircraft" as if it's a universally understood term. Personally, I'm not sure it is. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I think the term "adventure" itself is open to definition and is very much colored by your aviation life and how you live it-one man's adventure is another's ho-hum afternoon. My desktop iDictionary defines adventure as "daring and exciting activity calling for enterprise and enthusiasm." But there again, both "daring" and "exciting" can be defined in many different ways. If you ask the average nonflying man on the street about the concept, you can be certain that he'll see anything to do with flying as having more than a modicum of daring and excitingrnattached.
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