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01-12-2012, 08:57 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Rosamond, CA
Posts: 13
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Hi Gang! I'm a new VAF member today! I've been following awhile and finally joined. I'm a little over a 1 year pilot  . I work for a "Major" defense contractor (one that used to make a lot of very dark colored planes). Like many others here, pictures are verboten. I install equipment for, support and troubleshoot video teleconferences. I basically help to allow participants to be on TV! I love my job and look forward to building my -7A!
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01-12-2012, 09:04 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Olathe, KS
Posts: 397
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Agriculture Industry
No real pictures, but I'm in a training program to be a regional chemical business manager for our chemical brand (top), which is a product of a subsidiary company (middle), owned directly by the butter people (bottom).

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Brad Brensing
RV-10 Emp/Tailcone - Complete, QB Wings - Building, Fuse - Building
Never judge a man by his trim tabs.
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01-12-2012, 09:14 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Idaho Falls, ID
Posts: 134
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Its been a interesting ride.
My latest job is working for the Federal Government as an Industrial Safety Engineer here: http://www.pantex.com or http://nnsa.energy.gov/aboutus/ourlo...s/pantex-plant
Pantex is just the latest job my safety career has taken me. Other work was here: http://www.huntingtoningalls.com/nns/ were I was assigned to safety inspections of Los Angeles SSN688 Class Fast Attack subs and Carl Vinson class aircraft carriers during their construction. Saw several subs slide down the ways and splash into the James River. Was there when they laid the keel for the USS George Washington. Enjoyed watching them test the steam catapults when they launched dummy loads into the James River.
Somewhere along the way I worked in/on several commercial nuclear plants, Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Turkey Point Power Plant, and Plant Vogtle when it was just a hole in the ground. Did some time working oil refinery turnarounds in most any oil company you can mention. TEXACO, BP, EXXON, MOBILE (before it was EXXON-MOBILE), SHELL.
Oh yeah, almost forgot, baby-sat some radioactive waste in Idaho for 6 years before they started shipping it to Carlsbad, NM
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VAF# 835
RV-7A- Instrument Panel/FWF/Engine Mounted
Slow build --- ALL THE WAY
Victim of SB-632-B
2020 Dues Paid
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01-12-2012, 09:30 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Posts: 211
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holy!!
Quote:
Originally Posted by sjhurlbut
Steve H
Cold Lake, Alberta
RV7A #70015 - built - sold
RV7A #71629 - built - sold and flew across Atlantic
RV7 #70215 - flying - sold
RV8 #82842 - building slowly
RV7 #70703 - flying + undergoing panel overhaul
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Steve there are 12 step programes for people like you.
How did you get the time to do all of that considering your job comitments which are sizeable? I know what I was offcier for the Australia Army I didn't have time to scratch myself.
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Gus Bisbal
RV7
Obsession only exists when someone else isn't doing it too.
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01-12-2012, 09:44 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 834
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GusBiz
Steve there are 12 step programes for people like you.
How did you get the time to do all of that considering your job comitments which are sizeable? I know what I was offcier for the Australia Army I didn't have time to scratch myself.
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Ha - that is funny - I've learned to multi task and I have a very understanding spouse that supports aviation addiction.
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Steve "Stu"
Cold Lake, Alberta
7A #70015 - C-FZQX - built - sold
7A #71629 - C-FSIS - built - sold across Atlantic
7 #70215 - C-GOJU - flying - sold
7 #70703 - C-GMIY - flying - sold
6 #60119 - C-FHBZ - built - Airventure 2016 Bronze Lindy - sold
8 #82842 - C-FSBG - Fastback - built - sold
4 #2723 - building
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01-12-2012, 10:58 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 301
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Space and stuff
That is me 10 years ago. That TRMM instrument gives these pictures to the weather guys. It has lasted way longer than anyone expected and keeps on ticking. Can't wait to stop innovating for someone else and start on my RV.
Johnny Stick
Last edited by johnny stick : 02-22-2012 at 10:14 PM.
Reason: improvement
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01-12-2012, 11:42 PM
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Senior Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
Posts: 15,420
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Welcome to VAF!!!!
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Originally Posted by PMWhalen
Hi Gang! I'm a new VAF member today!
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Patrick Welcome to the best place on the entire web for things RVish
Good to have you aboard.
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Mike Starkey
VAF 909
Rv-10, N210LM.
Flying as of 12/4/2010
Phase 1 done, 2/4/2011 
Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
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01-12-2012, 11:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Posts: 216
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Living the Dream
I was going to be a Naval Aviator until Crohn's Disease took me out of flight school. Luckily I found a pretty cool fall-back to spend the last 19+ years occupying my time. This picture is of me (on the left) with my boss at my promotion to Lieutenant. My wife thought it was funny that it took me 20 years after graduating from USNA to make Lieutenant.
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The second picture was me back in the glory days. I'm the shorter one in front trying to rescue a kid who ended up in a rain swollen creek in the winter of 2000.
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Craig Schwartz
RV-8 (Flying!), IO-360B1PC2 (180 hp, 1 P-Mag, 1 Slick Mag), Whirlwind 200RV, AF-3500, G496, Digiflight II, Classic Aero Sportsman Ultraleather Seats
N868RV
Santa Rosa, CA
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01-13-2012, 02:06 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Long Beach, Ca
Posts: 13
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I'm currently trying to kill a three story rubber tree
But life hasn't always been this hard.
I spent five years Army as a Psychology Specialist then NCOIC psychiatry in Okinawa. After going back to school and studying Industrial Psychology with emphasis on statistics and man - computer interactions, I became a headhunter and started a small consulting business in electronics, countermeasures and spread spectrum secure communications. Ten years later, I accepted a couple of impossible assignments back to back, regrouped by heading back to school to add a nursing degree. I've spent the last 12 years or so as a psychiatric nursing supervisor for adolescent acute inpatient care at a University of California teaching hospital. A few months ago I was retired, so considered going back to school in yet another futile attempt to get educated.
My wife has stipulated the we live somewhere quiet with lots of trees, be within easy distance of amenities and have no planes within earshot, so my plans are to sell this house, buy in an air park, learn to fly and build a 12. Even better would be the challenge to modify a 12 to run on rechargeable batteries and take off from the back yard .
I'd be happy to develop a 12 step program for repeat offenders.
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01-13-2012, 04:25 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Salem, OR
Posts: 296
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President, engineer, salesman and accountant for PowerTech, Inc. My very small electrical contracting company specializing in the design and installation of power and control systems for large commercial HVAC retrofits.
Last day at this will be 12/31/2013. Then it's nothin' but RVs from there on out.
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Mitchell Lock
President Van's Aircraft
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