Friday, June 25, 2010 Bungees Arrive

I had placed an order with a Canadian company for the 3/16” bungees that attach to the swing axles, and the 3/32” bungees for the wing batten safties and front wing attachment. The box arrived today and I threw it into the trunk of the car without opening it. Earlier in the week, I had taken the wheels to Eric’s Bikes & Boards in Eden Prairie to have them mount the tires on the new wheels from the old broken wheels. With that accomplished, and hopefully after I get the pieces from Victoria Repair, I’ll make a trip to the airport and start some serious assembly work.
I had e-mailed Steve Gund to come up and stay for a week-end and help with the assembly of the carriage. I had hoped to get started the week following July 4th, but Steve’s schedule won’t allow that. I could push it out to the next week if he’s available, but if he isn’t, I’ll probably go ahead with the assembly process. It’s not really a 2-person job; just might be more fun if we could do it together. I have to wait to hear from him.
Meanwhile, we had committed to dog-sit for our friends Larry and Judy Nelson the week of June 27th through July 4th. So nothing will get done until after that. Hopefully I’ll pick up the carriage pieces and if Steve can’t come up the following week, I’ll start with the rebuild the weekend of 10th-11th. Who knows, maybe Larry Miller will enjoy coming up to help. I’ll ask him.
Also, Don Lindemann wants to get me “finished up” with my flight instruction. I committed to 10 hours dual and have done slightly over 3 hours. He wants me to have at least 100 landings. He hasn’t given me a schedule, but I’ll try to finish up within a couple of weeks. My goal would be for him to sign me off for solo, even though I can’t solo any certificated aircraft because of my revoked medical. I can fly under Part 103, but that’s all. Fine with me, but I would feel much more confident when I fly the Jetwing for the first time if I felt that at least Don thought I was safe to solo.