To the Carving table.

One of the turkey's our Instructors cooked for us for Thanksgiving heads to the carving table.

The new torture (sim) chamber

I was able to get a quick tour of the torture chamber (flight sim) they are preparing for me next month. It's not as big as I thought it would be but takes a different thought process because the airplane is so big and has so much mass.

Creve Coeur's Got Talent! or So You think you can dance???

"Dolly and Kenny" opened the show with "Islands in the Stream."

The Local Pickers.

Comedian Les Grotpeter.

Al Stix plays guiter?

"I can't play guitar."

"How about a poem?"

Albert's Daughter, Chloe.

The youngest Stix enchants the crowd with

her rendition of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

And fun was had by all.

Rick Ramin

My friend Rick Ramin poses with his recently purchased 1971 260 Comanche on a nice Sunday morning.

A few tasks to finish before I leave.

Sky and I went out to the airport this afternoon to help Glenn with an annual on the late Ken Kotik's Cub which has been sold and is going to Texas next week. We helped him remove the greenhouse glass, which is being replaced and then went over and hooked up the aileron pulleys on one wing and made the control cable for it.

I have a class date November 1, so will do a little touch-up on the compresson struts on the butt-end of the wings and then put everything away until after I finish training.

Aha! Found It! I think?

Found a box of parts with lots of pulleys in it at home. It was in a poly-whatever box along with about 30 inspection covers and the spinner for my prop. Must have gotten mixed up when I took the paint home.

I'll take it out tomorrow and see if they're the right size. There are also some pulleys inside the fuselage but I have them so hopefully I'm set.

Now where I'd put that....

I'm almost ready to cover the wings. I went to put on the aileron cable pulleys and I can't find the ones (there are two of the buggers) that go on the top of the wing.

I've looked in 7 boxes 6 times of all my parts and they're not there.

Crud...looks like another trip to Wicks.