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P.O. Box 6643 · San Mateo, CA 94403-6643

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My Family

Top row: My older son Brian, Olive (Stacy & Brian's 7-month-old daughter), Stacy (Brian's wife), Chris (Stacy's brother), Crystal (Tyler's wife), Tyler (my younger son)
Bottom row: Jasmine (Stacy & Brian's 10-year-old daughter), my wife Sally, Bob

(Picture taken on December 25, 2011)

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My Plane: 1976 Cessna Cardinal 177B

The photo above was taken on Saturday, August 8, 2009, at Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose, California.  It was taken by professional photographer Pat Lewis.  (More of Pat's work is at patlewis.smugmug.com.)  The boy in the picture with me is Keith Kingston, age 17, son of Kevin and Gail Kingston of San Jose.  Right after the picture was taken, I took Keith, Kevin, and Gail on a 20-minute aerial tour of the South Bay including San Jose, Morgan Hill, Anderson Reservoir, and Mount Hamilton/Lick Observatory.  This flight was one of seven I made that day in conjunction with "Take Flight For Kids" sponsored by Valley Medical Center Foundation, Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 62, and many, many others.  Take Flight For Kids is a group of volunteers who take kids with disabilities, special needs, and critical illnesses flying in private aircraft.  Their goal is to show the kids that the sky is literally the limit to reaching out and overriding their perceived limitations.

How big an event was Take Flight For Kids?  Estimates are that there were 3,000 visitors who wandered through 200 exhibits in the Reid-Hillview Airport parking lot.  Over 2,400 free lunches were served.  There were 44 volunteer pilots who made 150 flights with 600 passengers including young people with special needs along with their family and friends.  The number of volunteers for the entire event is estimated at 300.  

CLICK HERE to see more pictures of Take Flight For Kids.

Instrument Panel

My MS Excel spreadsheet program for aircraft weight and balance: Click here
(Requires Excel 2000 or later.)

To see the Mountain Flying article I wrote in 2002, "Looking for a New Challenge?", Click here

Features of the Cardinal

Cruise Speed: 130 knots (about 150 mph) - 75% power at 10,000 feet MSL Seats: Four Service Ceiling: 14,600 feet Range: 780 nautical miles (about 900 statute miles in no wind) Engine: Lycoming O-360-A1F6D (4-cylinder, air-cooled, rated at 180 hp)

My Favorite Links:

Go to the Cardinal Flyers Online web site

Go to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association web site

My Work:

Andreini & Company (San Mateo, CA)

Retired July 20, 2007!

Go to the Andreini & Company web site

My Favorite Video:

Click on the "GO" button above for this 4:40 music-video.  The music is from the latest Celtic Woman album, Songs From The Heart, and is titled, Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears.  The pictures in the video are of Ellis Island, which, from 1892 to 1954, was America's entry point for 17 million immigrants, often from oppressed foreign lands.

In 1904, at the age of three, my father, Charles Martin Leuten, entered the United States at Ellis Island along with his mother, Ester, and five-year-old bother, Harry.

Quote of the Day:

"If you don't have a dream, how will you ever have a dream come true?"

William P. Lear (1902 - 1978) designed the Lear Jet and numerous other innovative inventions

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