My Year in Pictures

A bluebird day at Copper Mountain

The South SeaAttle College team at the Aerospace Maintenance competition, with the Snap On tool rep

One of the electrical simulators from the aerospace maintenance competition

The Wonder Bread airplane, aka the sealant simulator

Evidence of my ascension over rivets

At the Delta hangar … just hanging out by an engine, as one does

There are beds in the belly of an Airbus 330

Working on the first 747 ceiling panels

Grand Ridge singletrack – aka heaven

From the best aviation day ever – invited to a Boeing award ceremony and 787 tour

My mentee, graduating from high school

My first airplane

This is how we BBQ at airplane school

Planning my Huffy toss

Huffy, tossed

Just posting it because it’s pretty

Flared tubing – practice for licensing exam

Flexible tubing assembly. Surprisingly hard to get it right, but here it is … right

Backstage at Nutcracker

The culmination of 20 months of rising early, wrangling adolescents, wrangling airplanes and stuffing my brain full of a lot of really new stuff. My Powerplant license (the real one will arrive in the mail in about 3 months)