September 6, 2005
SHE'S BACK!

74 hours after scraping my beauty from the grass the new engine came to life! I am getting too old for this ****! Yury, Chad , Blake and I spent most of those hours replacing engine prop, inner gear doors, and repairing left wing damage, and of course relearning rigging of the landing gear system. I will be flying this morning once the fog lifts and look forward to making it to "The Show" on Saturday.

I wish to send out my sincere appreciation for and gratitude to Jon and Patricia Sharp, CJ Stephens, Yury Gaitan, Mike Rosales, Eric Struvy of Golden State Propeller, Paul Lipps, Larry Kruchten, Lycoming, Hartzell, and the many people who have helped me through this.

We are Relentless!!