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Dave, there are definitely some fantastic memories that have, there's no doubt about that. Definitely a lot more exciting than that than the ones I have. I'm 45 now and I hope there's no strokes or anything in my future, that's for sure. But I'm not doing anything adventurous like flying in a small aircraft either. Man, in a single engine, that's even scarier. You've only got one shot with that one if you can't restart it. What kind of altitude would you fly, you know, going to a small plane like that across the Atlantic, would you at least give yourself some time, you know, some altitude where you could restart the engine, you know, shoot? Did it ever fail? Did you ever have any issues? I guess you were probably buying, you know, new planes or, I don't know man, you've got me interested. The old one you, Casey. All-Star Node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. Your Golf Rios Delta Papa returning? No, it was very much a second-hand, second-pre-owned aircraft. I did fly it for quite a few hours around out there in the States before I attempted the journey. I had the correct maintenance done to it and the most difficult thing, if you want the truth, the most difficult thing is staying awake. And remembering which fuel valve to turn on and which fuel cell in which particular order, which is, even though it's written down, you still convince yourself it's different. But unfortunately, it's very tedious. Yeah, the engine never missed a beat. A pretty good engine. And there are people that do this sort of thing for a living as well. I mean, I was flying around 8,000 feet, 6,000 to 8,000 feet, low enough not to want oxygen, high enough to give me a bit of wiggle room. And I had no issues whatever. I didn't even have a parachute. From the point of view, if you're going to come down in the Atlantic, you're going to freeze to death. I'll die of hypothermia before anybody gets here, so what's the point? So yeah, that was the harem scare of days. But as it was taught to me when I was in the military, have confidence in your equipment, have confidence in your own ability. And just get the job done, which is what I did. Now later on, I went to fly helicopters, but those things don't have the range to fly them across the Atlantic, so you can't do enough fuel in the thing. But it was heady days. It was good days. I was lucky enough to have a very good job where I could afford to buy these things, take the time out to fly these things. And hey, you know, there's a lot more risk of driving a car fast on the highway. And that is a fact. Over.