May 18-24

• Friday May 18: Fixed squawks on CMA and 9KA.

• Saturday: did laundry, helped Dan S weld up the grates for the BBQ. Went shopping with Jay for steel, electrical connectors and tires for his truck. In the afternoon finished the BBQ and got ready for the pig. Pig arrived around 19:00. A little bigger than we thought (72kgs, 160 lbs) but would still fin in the grill we built. Started grilling around 20:00. Watched a few movies while rotating the pig every hour.

• Sunday: Decided to go home a little after 4:00 am. Slept till 6:00 am, helped a little before getting ready for church. Continued grilling after church till around noon. Helped carve the pig and get everything ready for the “feast”. Lots of AIM missionaries showed up and ate just about everything, so that worked out well. See slide show in New Photos

• Monday 21, May: Worked on CMT. Test flight pilots had a couple small things to adjust.

• Tuesday: Worked in stores most of the day. Confirming parts in stock for CMT to be sold with plane and parts staying. Bible study in the evening.

• Wednesday 23: Adjusted gear warning horn and stall warning horn and went on test flight with the pilot to confirm everything was set. Worked on tool box some in the evening. Started building the frame for the back cabinet.

• Thursday 24, May 07: Worked on updating the parts lists and sorting out differences.

May 7- 17

• Monday May 7, 07: Float Plane left for Lake Victoria. Started helping on the 100hr/annual for 9KA. We have a high school girl from the German school doing and internship for the week.

• Tuesday: Issac T. came to the hangar mid morning. Stayed an helped work on inspection for 9KA.

• Wednesday: We continued inspection on 9KA and re rigged the aileron system.

• Thursday: finished the inspection and worked on some of the remaining squawks and started putting it back together. Ran sound and set up for the movie “Facing the Giants”, a Christian football movie, at church in the evening.

• Friday 11 May, 07: Finished putting everything back together, including adjusting the wings to correct a “wing heavy” problem. Gave Issac a ride back to his aunt’s place in town and stayed for supper and the night.

• Saturday: Went to Java House so Issac could do email but the internet was not working well. Went to my place so he could see it and the other mission compound. Went over to the SIM compound but not too many people there so went to the hangar for a while. Then tried another Java House but their internet was to be off till 20:00. Stayed and visited some other people there for a while before Issac headed home by taxi and I went back to the hangar and then came home.

• Monday 14: Worked on some paperwork and looks like this week will be a little slower maintenance wise which will be nice to catch up on stuff. Found out that my work permit finally came through so will have to finish the paperwork and get finger printed this week.

• Tuesday: Worked on the tractor most of the day. Changed the fluids and filters and serviced everything. Also adjusted the 3 point hitch to lift higher and straitened the front bull bars that were bent.

• Wednesday: Worked on paper work. Did some errands in town. Got the motorcycle insurance transferred to my name. Set up to finish my work permit stuff tomorrow.

• Thursday 17: Finally finished work permit stuff and got fingerprinted today. Also finishing up the motorcycle paperwork.  Worked on airplane paperwork and cleaned off the top of my toolbox.

April 24- May 5

• Tuesday: 24, April 07: Primed the floor in the morning and painted it in the afternoon. We mixed bead blasting medium with the paint and brushed it on giving it a textured non slip finish. Had bible study at the SIM compound in the evening.

• Wednesday: Worked on putting everything back together on the float plane during the day. After 1700, I went over and started helping work on the Casa 212 that Samaritan’s Purse bought in DRC and is going to ferry back to the US. Worked till about 2230 (some guys worked later).

• Thursday:Continued working on the float plane during the day, and the Casa in the evening again until 2130.

• Friday 27: Finished up the float plane. Dale, the pilot, flew it in the afternoon and said it ran great. Gave me a few little things that still needed to be done but basically it is ready. Helped on the Casa project till 2200.

• Saturday: Installed my Action Packer on the back of my bike in the morning at the hangar. Helped some on the finishing up the Casa work. Had a supper and good bye party for Kathi at SIM in the evening.

• Monday 30: Worked on getting all the paperwork together for the float plane and finishing up the few minor things left. Helped work on the DC 3 inspection a little

• Tuesday May 1, 07: Labor Day and my birthday. Went over to Ryan’s place and helped him pull the transmission out of his Land Rover. In the evening, went over to the SIM for supper and birthday party.

• Wednesday 2: Helped with the DC 3 inspection for part of the day. Started machining special washers for the rear seats in the float plane.

• Thursday: Finished machining the washers and reinstalled the seat with the new parts (the last think for the float plane). Helped on the DC 3 inspection.

• Friday 4: Worked on the DC 3 inspection and almost finished it.

• Saturday 5: Spent the entire day helping Ryan put the transmission in his truck and putting it all back together. Definitely not as easy as working on Japanese or American vehicles. Hardware is British standard which is different from ASE or metric and so we used both metric and standard which ever fits better, and sometimes a crescent wrench is the best fit. Long day but everything is back together and seems to work fine.