torsional vibrations. The aircraft was powered by a 100 hp Continental O-200 engine driving a 72-inch Hartzell ground-adjustable propeller. He flew the Nomad to the 1962 EAA Fly-In in Rockford, Illinois, where the design attracted a lot of interest. In 1964, flying Nomad, he took the grand prize in the AC Spark Plug Rally. After returning home, he began looking into the existing FAI records and realized that he could design an aircraft to break the altitude, speed and distance records of Class C1a (propeller) for aircraft below 1,102 lbs gross weight. He began work on the design, and in October 1962 he started construction on what was to become the Lesher Teal (N4291C). The aircraft was configured as an all-aluminum single-place aircraft, powered by a 100 hp Continental O-200 engine driving a 64-inch Hartzell ground-adjustable propeller. By April 28, 1965, the airframe was complete. On that day, Lesher made the aircraft's first flight at Willow Run Airport. That August, he flew Teal to the 1965 EAA Fly-In in Rockford, Illinois, where he won an award from the EAA for his achievements. After two years of testing Teal, on May 22, 1967, he flew the aircraft to a new 500 km closed-course Class C1a speed record of 181.55 mph. On June 30, he set a new 1,000 km closed-course speed record of 169.20 mph and on October 20, he set a new 2,000 km closed-course speed record of 141.84 mph. On May 6, 1968, while flying Teal near Ann Arbor, he experienced a loss of power. Not being able to make it to a nearby airport, he made an emergency landing in a field. The airplane was badly damaged, but he was unhurt. After rebuilding Teal, on September 9, 1970, he set a new Class C1a closed-circuit distance record of 1554.29 miles. Later, on September 29, 1973, he set a new Class C1a 3 km speed record of 173.101 mph and the next day he set a new 15–25 km speed record of 169.134 mph. Finally, on July 2, 1975, he set a new Class C1a record for distance in a straight line by flying 1,835.459, flying from Florida to Arizona. He continued to fly Teal for many more years, but never made any more record attempts. For his record-breaking flights, he won the FAI's Louis Bleriot Medal four times and was inducted in the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame