Time for more fun

Ok so I have been a slacker on updating this as I did not tell you about my Atlanta trip and the cool things that happened there. Well here is the quick story.

A buddy Kevin was my nav and he invited Gail (the other pilot that went to the sim with me) and I over to his house. He has a beautiful house and a wonderful family that cook us steaks and was wonderful company for an evening. We ate out at a indian place the second night and that was cool too, but the coolest part came the last day after our simulator.

Kevin works for Lockheed and got us into the plant were they make the F-22 and C-130J. We walked "the line" of both of these aircraft and got to see how they are made. It was neat seeing an F-22 being made and how big they really are. The guys building it got a kick out of knowing that my little sis E flys them.

I got to see how the C-130s are made and it was really neat that I am building my plane the same way as the big boys build them. In fact I was a little surprised that I thought I was a little more picky about the riveting, oh well I will still be picky because its my plane and my bottom, oh wait I fly the C-130s too and its still my bottom =o It was just nice to meet a few of the workers that put these planes together and shake their hands, they do amazing things and because of them I get to fly these great planes.

Hard to see but the above rivets have a very shallow shop head (for those that know what I am talking about)

Aloha!