Week 28 (13 - 19 Aug 06)

Almost had a 5-day fly week... missed Thursday crew rest issues.

8/14 - FAVORITE FLIGHT TO-DATE! Spun the T-2C (Tester 25) with the Spin-Meister himself, Jerry Gallagher. What a ride! Upright spins, inverted spins, coupled departures, all fun and disorienting! I've got some video of it, but it's too large to put here.

8/15 - My first Lat-Dir exercise flight with SLAB, for a total of 1.3 hours. He nearly made me sick, so I took the controls to fly a few more test points, and I nearly made him sick... called it a day and headed home.

8/16 - FLIR evaluation with the new MX-15 FLIR on the NP-3D (Tester 889). Flew it with Thommo (our fearless leader), Tripper, Jethro, and Pedro. Dave Hunt and Chachi were our pilots. The eval was fun, but it sucked knowing we were getting this data to write a FULL RTR. In the end, the FLIR was awesome! I was amazed at how much infrared can allow you to see, especially serious detail, like counting rivets on the wing skin on the airplane... 4 hours of flying, not so bad... it was a 1830 launch for a 2230 landing tho, which is why I was not on the flight schedule for Thursday.

8/18 - Another cool flight. My first C-12C flight (Tester 37). Flew it with Gozer (MAJ Morgan) for my asymmetric power demo flight. I flew nearly the whole flight, which was about 1.4 hours long. Great time!

-Vanna


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