Articles written by Carla Merrill

Carla Merrill|Updated Jan 8, 2008

Sometimes the impossible is possible. My husband Bruce's 1948 Cessna 140 aircraft is a case in point. With a darling little 85 hp engine, it can get him most places in about half the time of a car (and half the cost). But this plane wasn't designed to conquer the Rocky Mountains on a hot afternoon with full fuel tanks. That is until this past September when he and his "little airplane that could" sailed over the Rocky Mountains at 15,500 MSL (Mean (above) Sea Level). Bruce... Full story