One of the great things about flying, as I’ve mentioned before, is that for eight hours you have nothing else to do, so if you feel as though you’re doodling or being inefficient with your time, it doesn’t matter. I found that liberating. I had lots of ideas for the 881 on those plane trips: how to package the front suspension, for example, because having adopted the new shape, it wasn’t easy to get all the suspension inside this relatively small monocoque. That was sketched out on the plane.
