2nd annual Delta aviation careers open house.

 Now bigger and better!

Enormous!

Thrilled to be sitting in a de-ice truck.

Also thrilled to sit in a pushback tug.

KC-135R safety card!

Who knew?!

Refueling position in the rear of the KC-135.

RH wing.

We all got to lay in the refueler station.

Built in 1957!

She's a clean one.

Watch that number 4 engine, it's running a little hot.😜

Air Force proud.

Fire truck interior.

Foam making compartment on the truck.

Spare no expense.

800 horsepower high speed snowblower.  100hp per foot!

Productive Saturday.

 We got the garden tilled, planted a few things, and Skyler helped me to get the loader tractor running.

I have a new tiller operator!

Much harder than it looks to keep it going straight.

Purple potatoes!

He tilled the entire garden for the first pass and I tilled it for the second pass.

Nice and fluffy soil.

The carburetor has an electric fuel shutoff solenoid and we traced the problem to the solenoid.  Now she runs like a top again.

So long tree.

The Bradford Pear tree that grew from a seed in place came down yesterday.  Never plant (or just let one grow in place) a flowering pear tree, they are trash trees!

Monday, after I scheduled it for removal next week.

Sueprise! He showed up yesterday afternoon at 3:35.  He said he had an extra hour.

50 horsepower chipper made quick work of the branches.

Skyler's flag he received from the Mayor waving over the destruction.

Halfway there.

Bucket truck for the final branches.

Chunks of the trunk.  The entire tree came down and got chipped up in 58 minutes!

Gone. :(

Another B-29 post!

Or at least B-29 adjacent. We headed out to the Historic Wendover Airfield Museum first thing Saturday to volunteer for their "work day".  Skyler was tasked with cleaning some historic vehicles while Altair and I started out paining, and finished up cutting UV protection film for 135 window panes.

On the tarmac where the B-29s taxied in our car!

Looking south, wet.

Prepping for paint in the bomb room of the "Enola Gay" hangar.  See all those windows?!  Little did we know...

"Fat Man" atomic bomb replica.  The curator said they had a special effects shop in Hollywood build it for the museum.

The Cadets did a good job helping out.

B-29 "Doc" got his original radar test squadron livery back over the winter.  Time to do another B-29 model?

A few more.

Mitchell award means cake for the squadron!

Customized with his name.

Looking mighty proud...

And rather grown up!

 

Billy Mitchell Award night.

Presenting Cadet Second Lieutenant Skyler Kaminski. Officially an Officer in the Civil Air Patrol!

Altair even arranged for the West Jordan Mayor to attend!

Sigh...

Apparently this is what our government wants now!

CPR training.

A class was offered for his Squadron and a few cadets signed up to learn CPR.

"Stayin' alive".

Skyler not paying attention.

Altair's turn.

"Everything hurts, and I'm dying!".

What was said after he worked out too hard over the weekend.

Altair giving him a lecture about listening to us when we say "you're overdoing it".

New shirt?

Don't you too, take your drone for a walk?

 4 miles on the JRP yesterday, the drone got some exercise.

On the horse path. She needs hours to maintain her FAA license.

Skyler's turn.  He too needs to build hours for him to get an FAA part 107 license when he turns 16.

Truth.

I'm still having a hard time after Maizey left us 2 months ago.