Updated 15th, November, 2008.
Congratulations to Brad Ogden who passed his PPL Flying Test a while ago and to Adam Byass who passed his GFPT loast week.
A while ago "The Boy", that is Hamish, and his family pushed off to Tassie to live. We are sorry to see them go but we wish them all the best. We were pleased to receive a couple of postcards recently; thank you Hamish. However if you had enclosed your postal address we would be happy to send you some photographs, as requested!.
Since the weather has cleared up we have been fairly busy and we welcome Leon, Ted, Bruce and Phil.
Brendan is really enjoying his new job as a fire spotter pilot and reckons it is pretty good to be earning money from aviation and not spending money on it.
Work on the second new hangars is now complete so we can now keep all nine aircraft under cover and out of the rain and sun. Blair is now busy painting and getting the remains of a Cesna 182 ready to go up on the pole and claims his Cessna will be up in the air before my RV. This may well be true but I do not think I will be asking him to paint my 'plane. For those who live some distance away we are able to offer free accommodation for students learning to fly with us.
Work on the RV7 is progressing steadily and all being well Bruce Ingham will be down this Sunday to complete the wiring. I hope Terry has put all the wires in the right place for Bruce to connect up.
It may now be that we are at the start of the ending, and no longer at the end of the starting. The wings are just about ready for a trial fit to the fuselage once Bruce has worked his magic on the wiring. There are fewer and fewer bits left in the big box of parts; things are looking encouraging! The empennage is away at the painters and already has a coat of primer on.
Bob Main.
