Monday, September 12, 2005

Weekend in Miami

Sarah and I spent the whole weekend--50 hours over Friday, Saturday, and Sunday--working at the aircraft repair station in Miami. We were overseeing the installation of power panels in the aircraft to support research flights. This is a critical step in being able to support NASA flights and other research activities. It will also come in handy when we do media and filming flights (previously, everything had to be batterypowered--ugh!)

As usual, we got very little sleep while we were in Miami. No, not because we were partying! We need to be on-site from the time the first mechanics arrive at 7 am until the paperwork is completed at 12 am or later.

This was the first time Sarah had worked at a repair station without Robert. She did a fantastic job! We ended up getting all of the work on the aircraft done but still have some more removable pieces to finish up that are needed to make it all work. Overall: Mission Accomplished!!

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