July 5, 2002
After five
Ever wonder where your co-workers are headed at the end of the day? This
Inside feature catches up with university employees "after five."
Photo courtesy of VISIONS magazine.
Name: Jeff Lorimor
By day, he's: Associate professor, agricultural and biosystems
engineering
After five, he's: Pilot/plane builder/poet
Decided to wing it: In 1990, when he began the nine-year solo
construction of a 150-horsepower, single-engine RV6 aluminum plane, in which
he now has logged 150 hours, or approximately 22,500 miles
His flights of fancy: Led to original poetry about "how I feel about
flying. I like the way poems are more concise -- I can say more with fewer
words in a poem."
Preparing for take-off: His newest project -- a 1930s-era wood and
fabric airplane he's building with an open cockpit and high wings ("my
Sunday-afternoon, fly-up-and-down-the-river-valley airplane").
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