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SAM'S WEB SITE
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Date: 12-26-2011
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Number of Hours: 1.00
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Brief Description: Got started on rebuilding right tank - again.
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Got the right wing skeleton back on the rack after putting the rack back up, got the ribs ready to start the debur, straighten, and fluting operatiions preparatory to beginning tank assembly. Since I am without adult supervision for the next few days, I brought the ribs upstairs and worked on straightening and fluting operations while sipping a little Jack Daniels. There's a story there; a lifelong friend died a couple of years ago with Alzheimer's. He was an avid collector of Jack Daniel's memorabilia. Tragically, for the last several years of his life, he could not drink any, due to the medication he was on. On my 70th birthday a couple of weeks ago (My first target date for completion of N361DB; the DB being the initials of the friend referred to, also a pilot), his widow honored me by presenting me with one of his small Jack Daniel's whiskey glasses as a birthday present. I sipped a little from it tonight while straightening and fluting the ribs sitting on the sofa.
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Setup to cut 5" hole with fly cutter in end tank rib for access plate/fuel sender.
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A toast to my good friend, Dick Bledsoe, the DB in N361DB
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Nothing particular to do with the ship, just a nice sunset from the Tiger over South Georgia
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