One of the mundane problems we had to solve coming out here is "where the heck are we going to live?" Seems pretty easy at first, and there are some nice hotels in Arlington. But at $100 per night for a month...well, the price of an airplane is suddenly going up!
Luckily, we got a military hook-up on this front. Just 3 miles south of the Arlington airport (and our airplane factory) is a small Naval Outpost called Naval Station Everett. It is a tiny, unguarded & ungated Navy facility with a couple of lodges, a Commissary, and a Navy Exchange. We scored a suite at the "Navy Lodge Everett Smoky Point" for $60 per night...full kitchen and all! The commissary is about 100 yards from us, and the Navy Exchange is fairly over-the-top--thing Super Target with military prices. Anyone need a good deal on a flatscreen TV??
Anyway, for those interested here are some pictures of the mundane:
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| Front of our new home, the Navy Gateway Inn |
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| Our outside "airplane building study area" | |
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| Our Suite little kitchen. |
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| Tracy, already in study mode. I am behind! |
Now, back to the airplane! We anticipate the build process to be fairly intense. Beginning tomorrow, our daily routine will be building from 0700 to 1730. The intro packet says "our workers (that's us) get a 10-minute break at 0900 and 1400, and a 30-minute lunch break from 1200 to 1230. Thank goodness for the commissary--gotta bring grub!
The intro packet we have from the company goes fairly out of its way to remind us that the program is not for wusses! I have attached a picture of tomorrow's tasks--actually, it's just page 1 of 4 of tomorrow's tasks! All told, there are 102 tasks...which by my math equates to a task every 6 minutes. Go! Check out task #2 on the picture..."Mount Wings to Fuselage." I can hear all the F-15 maintainers laughing at me right now...I can hardly wait to get going.
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| Page 1 of 4 of tomorrow's tasks. Note task 2: "secure wings to fuselage." Wow! |
Speaking of which, time to go--got studying to do!
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