WOW!!!

HI JIMMY!,

Well, I got started in tearing down my very own A65 engine. just like the little jewels I have seen in Piper J-3 Cubs ever since before I was borned. Its so way cool!

I have learned a lot this week so far. Airplanes seem to be a great deal less complicated than autos. They are sturdy and basic....because...as the teachers say "If a car breaks down you pull over, if an airplane breaks down you fall out of the sky....."

This trusty little engine makes like 65 HP. The first manual I got my hands on was printed in March, 1944. What a gas. I also found out some of these engines have probably been in the program some 60 years....WOW! What greats in the world of flying might have gone before me here? I am going to a place with a legacy...it so rocks.

I know one thing, Art Scholl ran the program for some 18 years until the world lost him. There are a number of his personal crew still involved in and running the program...so you get the picture of the caliber of folks involved.

In addition, they are working hard with the charter school I know of that is focused on aviation. A number of their first grads are in my class, and some current high schoolers busting their butts to do as many credits as they can.

I love the detail and note-taking required by the FAA to repair engines. Its the sort of detail that got me fired or screwed under in my last two jobs. Yeah- this is going to be a great fit. I worry not about actually getting work at the end of it. I have a current desire to restore and stay around general aviation. Maybe the money ain't as good...but the rewards are higher. Then again, I am old with lots of other job refs to back up a new skill. Right now I just want a steady income and to start adding all maner of letters after my name like "A & P" and so on....

Hey Jimmy, if ya have a closet full of old airplane stuff nobody needs I know a great little program that would probably love to have them donated...!