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Much ado about paint

In one of my less mature moments, I responded to Kevin’s “to-do list” for Seven with a threat. I refused to attend Knockout if Seven was still in primer. This ultimatum was not very well thought out. There’s only so much time before the next event at MIS; the team (with the exception of Nick) work full time jobs and

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It’s on!

On a cool late spring evening, May 18th. Seven piloted by Kevin Smith, co pilot Nathan Knappenburger, and Nick Smith documenting Seven realized her potential. With the parameters corrected she had her first full power acceleration run. The gleeful cheers of the three passengers filled the cabin, finally they saw what their hard work had created. Now that Seven is

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A long way to go short time to get there

Just an idea what our plate looks like. Install connectors to allow maintenance on drive system this will require terminating 250 connections 4 times one on each side of each end of our connectors. Design Logic board, order its parts build prototype board install and test make changes that are necessary. As part of installing the new connectors I will

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I Have No Idea What’s Going On.

I could say that the title about sums it up, but then BITW would win our bet. It doesn’t matter that it’s only an empty package of grapefruit rinds on the line….it’s my empty package of grapefruit rinds and I’m not giving them up without a fight! Oh look, a squirrel. So we have new custom struts on the way,

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