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Written by:
Jeff Shapiro
7/27/2009 8:59 AM
I despise being bored so to have such an engaging project to be motivated to work on has been the perfect way to make time fly between comps. I used to come home and really need time, about a week usually, to readjust and to find the groove of the home and work routine. Being at a comp has it's own routine but being at home, with work and the balance and fulfillment that I find from my family, although obviously familiar, takes a little time to settle into again. The schedule of getting up and putting on scrubs to go to the hospital to see patients at 3:30am isn't quite the same as getting up for coffee at normal hours, wearing flip flops and shorts, while waiting for the team meeting or pilot briefing to start. It's not that I'm complaining, it's just a different song to dance to.
This time has been a bit different though. Along with the huge joy that comes from seeing my family, I have a new work project that has been keeping me busy and smiling. The difference between it and my work at the hospital is that I can't wait to work on it. A normal work day is to get up at 2:45am to shower, get to the hospital and work a 12 hr shift in the ICU, come home and get some design/sewing/carbon work done for a couple of hours, go to pick up Nya and spend the evening hanging out with her and Kara when she gets home from work. I try hard to be here, now 100% so it's this quiet family time that allows me to relax and recoup until we read books and put Nya to bed. Then, after Kara and I hang out a bit (especially if she has a website to work on) I go back down to the shop for a late night of work on the harness project. I am so motivated to get this prototype done and as it takes shape, I am more and more excited to fly in it. I really feel like it's transforming into a product that all at Wills Wing will be proud of.
I have arrived at the point where the sewing can't really go any further until the carbon is done so yesterday was all about the lay up. After getting valuable advise from Dustin (who is much more savvy with carbon work than I) I prepared the surface of the molds and got to it. I laid up the back plate and boot halves and got them in the vacuum bag to cure for 24-30 hours. I will pull them tonight and get to trimming and finishing the parts. I can't wait to see the shape take form. I just have to build my design for the capture system of the two piece back plate and finish the deployment bag capture on the inner skin before I instal the carbon and hang in it. To anyone who is interested or has been following this project at all, I'm stoked. It's coming along very well;-)
After getting the carbon in the bag, I took a hike with my dogs behind the house and was lucky enough to watch a major cu-nim drop virga and a nice rainbow out from under it's "shelf". I only had the camera on my phone so the photo kinda sucks but it was quite beautiful.
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