Sunday, 29 August 2010
Friday, 27 August 2010
The joys of Africa1
We have arrived in Gabon, safe and well. The project is going really well, I'll post about it tomorrow.
But one of the joys of being in Africa is European foods:
Walls Ice Cream! HMMMM. It's a hard life being a missionary.
Thanks for being a part of enabling me to experience this. God bless Andy P
But one of the joys of being in Africa is European foods:
Walls Ice Cream! HMMMM. It's a hard life being a missionary.Thanks for being a part of enabling me to experience this. God bless Andy P
Monday, 23 August 2010
Guess the place?
While in Washington Dullas airport we saw this flag as part of their terminal display!
We were very puzzled by it:
It turns out to be the state of Hawaii. The story on Wikipedia is a very interesting one and we've enjoyed reading it.
Just thought I'd share it with you all.
We were very puzzled by it:
It turns out to be the state of Hawaii. The story on Wikipedia is a very interesting one and we've enjoyed reading it.Just thought I'd share it with you all.
Africa Bound
We are on our way to Libreville the capitol of Gabon in Africa. The we being the guys in the photo below. Left to right: Dale Coates (Supervisor at MMS and our team leader), Me and Paul Jones (Senior Apprentice at MMS)
We are going to help Air Calvary who have a Cessna 207 which had a little accident a few months ago. 
Their insurance has agreed to the cost of shipping the aircraft back to MMS in Ohio, USA for repair.
So an MMS Aviation Rapid Response team has been requested to pack the aircraft into a sea crate for shipping.
And so that's ho I end up on my way to Africa! I'm part of the team going to disassemble the plane and secure it in a 40foot container for shipping.
Pray for Dale, Paul and myself please. For safe travel and a quick disassembly and safe transport of the plane back to Ohio.
We are going to help Air Calvary who have a Cessna 207 which had a little accident a few months ago. Their insurance has agreed to the cost of shipping the aircraft back to MMS in Ohio, USA for repair.So an MMS Aviation Rapid Response team has been requested to pack the aircraft into a sea crate for shipping.
And so that's ho I end up on my way to Africa! I'm part of the team going to disassemble the plane and secure it in a 40foot container for shipping.
Pray for Dale, Paul and myself please. For safe travel and a quick disassembly and safe transport of the plane back to Ohio.
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Big Aircraft!
Here are some photo's of plane! Just for a surprise :)
This is a Douglas DC-3 operated by Missionary Flights International in Florida. If you're observant you'll have noticed that the engines don't have their covers on. That was because we were about to take the engines off to change them for lower time engines. The really observant (or geeky) amongst you will notice that the aren't the normal huge radial engines on this DC3! That's because this plane has been converted to Pratt& Whitney PT6 engines which are turboprop engines that burn jet fuel and so are cheaper to run.
This is a closer shot of the PT6 engine going back on.
All this happened in Florida in May when I was part of a team from MMS who helped make the engine change happen.
This is a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, which is one of the main planes MAF operates through out the world. This one is at MMS during our recent Open-House. The weekend saw lots of visitors tour our facility.
This is what it would look like flying the Grand Caravan in Peru! The flight simulator was part of the open house and I was responsible. Both small kids and big kids liked it.
And this is a Piaggio Avanti! I thought they only made scooters but this proves they can make really unique planes too! It came into the airport the other week. Last week we had a visit from a Chinook helicopter too but didn't have my camera!
And this is a new modification that we've installed to one of our aircraft at MMS. It's a human landing gear system and built in mechanic! It's actually Mark Beckwith (the other MAF apprentice) and I inside the wing of a Cessna 402. We are currently installing a wing reinforcement after part of the wing has had a specialist inspection completed on it. We hope this project will be returned to it's owner in Maine USA soon where he uses it to pastor and plant churches.
Once again thank you for your support while I am here in Coshocton training. God bless.
This is a Douglas DC-3 operated by Missionary Flights International in Florida. If you're observant you'll have noticed that the engines don't have their covers on. That was because we were about to take the engines off to change them for lower time engines. The really observant (or geeky) amongst you will notice that the aren't the normal huge radial engines on this DC3! That's because this plane has been converted to Pratt& Whitney PT6 engines which are turboprop engines that burn jet fuel and so are cheaper to run.
This is a closer shot of the PT6 engine going back on.All this happened in Florida in May when I was part of a team from MMS who helped make the engine change happen.
This is a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, which is one of the main planes MAF operates through out the world. This one is at MMS during our recent Open-House. The weekend saw lots of visitors tour our facility.
This is what it would look like flying the Grand Caravan in Peru! The flight simulator was part of the open house and I was responsible. Both small kids and big kids liked it.
And this is a Piaggio Avanti! I thought they only made scooters but this proves they can make really unique planes too! It came into the airport the other week. Last week we had a visit from a Chinook helicopter too but didn't have my camera!
And this is a new modification that we've installed to one of our aircraft at MMS. It's a human landing gear system and built in mechanic! It's actually Mark Beckwith (the other MAF apprentice) and I inside the wing of a Cessna 402. We are currently installing a wing reinforcement after part of the wing has had a specialist inspection completed on it. We hope this project will be returned to it's owner in Maine USA soon where he uses it to pastor and plant churches.Once again thank you for your support while I am here in Coshocton training. God bless.
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