The end is near

Yes I am almost done with school and I am starting to realize that in this industry you are never out of school. The amount of information concerning airplanes is so vast you are constantly learning something new because peoples lives are in your hands when you are flying or working on airplanes. Very intimidating and sobering. Well enough of the grim and serious. I have two jobs that I have sent resumes to: one in Ohio and the other in Wisconsin. Both are sheet metal modifications and would be very useful on the mission field. The Wisconsin job is more attractive because it is in Oshkosh (home of the worlds biggest airshow every year) and is sixty miles from Watertown. Dave and Steph go to school in Watertown. Plus the shop does DC-3's conversions. The old radials to turbines; the shop does all of the wing reconstruction for the conversion. Basically, a whole new wing. A DC-3 is a old plane that was used in the military for dropping cargo and para-troopers and in civilian life as a airliner. It is a great old plane with a ton of history. The other job is rebuilding Caravans; a plane that many mission agency's use but I don't know much more than that. I have heard of these jobs from individuals who are involved with the running of the school; so I have good references to get my foot in the door.



I my be going to the fair tomorrow to see my cousins 4-H projects and I will be hunting ground hogs all weekend. Its good practice for deer hunting: small targets at long distances. I may try the cannon this weekend, haven't decided yet.

Best bush plane ever!!!

ground hog hunting/ambushing/sniping

Testing Successful

I passed my airframe and general test yesterday after about nine hours of testing. I am an airframe mechanic. My folks arrived safely in Detroit last night around nine. They will be returning home some time today(Thursday). Thanks for praying for them and for me. I have a line on a job in Ohio so if y'all could pray about that as well I would be grateful. Oh and if anyone talks to grandma tell her that I shot a ground hog last Sunday. Thats a grand total of eight or nine killed on the farm this year and there are more. If your wondering I am not useing the cannon to kill a ground hog, that would be more like vaporizing a ground hog.

test tomorrow

I have my general and airframe test tomorrow starting at eight in the morning and should be about seven to eight hours before I finish. Four test in all, two oral and two practical, and I think I am ready. I will be studying a bit more this afternoon and evening. I would appreciate your prayers for me tomorrow. I will blog about the results later this week.

almost is never enough but it sure is encouraging

I passed my last written for my airframe licence today and I will take my oral and practicals on Monday the 23rd. After those test, of which there are four, I will be a licensed airframe mechanic. I am looking forward to having Monday behind me. Got to go to work and make the big bucks. I just found out that the company my company contracts to made 6 billion dollars last year. might be net might be gross but at that amount it is definitely disgusting.

We had a tour of the Alticor hanger today and it was most impressive. A grand total of twelve aircraft in three hangers: One four seater- $400,000, two helicopters- 35 million, twelve inter-continental jets,(Beijing China to Grand Rapids in fourteen hours kindof jets) some of the jets cost 12 million and the others 30 million. The others fall some were in between but who cares. There was also a Ferrari in one of the hangers. I can't imagine what 30 million is much less think about buying an airplane of that price.

The Family made it safely to Lithuania