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Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Week 12 (24 - 28 Apr 06)

Sorry for the delayed posting. As you can imagine, school has kicked into high gear and I find myself with very little free time now. Spent this week taking a test in Statistics (which I think I did pretty good in), attending classes, and flying on a couple of flights.

Flight time: I flew twice this week. First flight was on Monday and I flew with the Brit, "Ellers". He's a cool pilot! Funny as hell too. We flew some performance test points that included sawtooth climbs. Got some good data, and even a funny HUD video of Ellers for blackmail later.
My second flight was on Wednesday with SLAB. Again, a rockin' pilot who comes from the baby hornet world. We also did sawtooth climbs. Both flights netted me a 1.0hr each of flight time.

Class: Classes consisted of airplane performance, airplane stability and control, subsonic aerodynamics, and report writing.

More next week!
-Vanna

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