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I think I'll make it. I have the Gran Chilin for 10 days starting next Friday, so that will cut into my time, unless I convince them that sanding or cleaning up my shop is fun. I may just let them in the pool while I work a bit to keep things moving. Alyssa'a almost 14 and Andrew is near 9, so they can be very good or not. I hope to have the deck boards on by the time they get here. I also hope to have the floor grids done the transom bands made and the cutwater welded and ready for the chrome guys.

Back to work.

Roberta

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Roberta
Built Zip "Oliver IV" and Super Spartan "Jimmy 70"

Dang he is at 6K he can whale watch from there!!!!

Was wondering about the glide slope...but guess it doesn't much matter as everything in sight is pretty much BLUE !!! Must be less head wind at that altitude..dang what a blast!

Steve

Update just in:

Ray,

I just spoke with Ryan.

All is well with the plane and the flight is going good.

He has just over 600 NM to go and expects to be on the ground in Pago Pago
in 5 hours.

He is feeling well and talking about heading for Gold Coast tomorrow. We
will see how he feels after 18+ hours of flying.

I notice he has been up to 8000 feet and looks to be getting a good tailwind up there...

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My buddy and I have been tracking him today and it hasn't moved in the past few hours!!! WTF????? UPDATE PLEASE!!!!!

edit:::: Looks like ole brass spheres made it.... HE'S THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I talked to a Pilot today that owns Karratha Flying Services, told him bout this, he said NO WAY he would make that flight in that small of an aircraft! lol

Oh yeah, highlight of my day, I had a flight in a King Air 200!!!!! SAWEEETTTT!!!!! We were cruising at 210 knots and got her up to 260 on the decent from 11,000' . Really sweet aircraft!

SMOOOTH as a feather that lady was with the yoke!

Sorry to disappoint. I guess Flight Aware ain't so aware today. She landed at around 3pm today in Coolangatta. She will be de-tanked, serviced and registered this week. Ray is flying in from Out West on Saturday to fly her to Coffs Harbour. Current plan is for us to pick him up at Brisbane, drive him to Coolangatta, and then I will fly with him to Coffs and return by train the next day. Should be cool.

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Congrats on the successful mission. Glad everyone is safe down under.

Roberta

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Built Zip "Oliver IV" and Super Spartan "Jimmy 70"

Thanks Roberta. I think Ray is pretty excited. About his plane, but also he has spent a few weeks separated from his Wife and kids. He LOVES his kids. His new job is in a place called Newman constructing mine site infrastructure. Not much there... At least the plane will give hm some freedom to get in and out.

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Australia is quite the place for planes. The 182 should be a great.

Roberta

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Built Zip "Oliver IV" and Super Spartan "Jimmy 70"

Ah, he's a "fly in fly outter" as they call them down here. Yeah that will be the ticket for him! Did you tell him about the place in the Whitsundays? My buddy has a block of land right off that lil airstrip. He says it's sweet lil place.