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This site is to share some of my experimental aircraft building experience and to post some progress pictures. I answer
to Bud, Buddy, Charles or Charlie. I retired from the US Postal Service at the position of Manager Maintenance Operations
in December of 1998. My total Federal government time credit was 41years 4 months, which included Military Service, first
was the Marine Corp Reserve at Sand Point NAS assigned to vmf 216 & vmf 541, then four years in the US
Airforce, where I was trained in Electronics. After retiring from the USPS in 1998, I went to work for Xerox
repairing analog and digital copiers for about 3 1/2 years. I then worked part time as a tool consultant at
Sears for a year & 1/2 starting in 2004 and since April 2007 till now have been working for Seattle Lexus as a Shuttle
Driver. My wife Cheryl & I attend Edgewood Baptist Church. My kids snag me occasionally for babysitting duties
with the grandchildren also. My interest in aviation goes back to my pre-teen years where I used to hitchhike out to the local
airport in Bremerton and spend my allowance to get a ride. I received my private pilot license, SEL, in 1978 at a FBO in Monroe,
WA and immediately began to look at homebuilts. I settled on the Rand Robinson KR2 and purchased the plans and spruce kit
in June of 1985, which was serial # 7427 with book# 67. I then started building the work bench and setting up my garage to
start construction but before I had done much more than inventory the wood I'd received, I found a local builder who had just
finished most of the wood work on his and was selling it for family reasons. So I bought his and sold the kit I
hadn't started on, to J Shaffer(it's flying now). My four kids were just getting out of high school about this time and starting
college, plus I was working full time, so after about a year of working on this project I put it on the back burner for a
number of years. In Feb of 1995 I purchased the KR2S supplement serial# 542 Book#77. With more time on my hands now I plan
on putting in time on this project each day in the hopes of completing it and getting it in the air.
Well our health and to many birthdays sometimes dictates what we can or can't do and we wind up altering our plans.
It seems after having a heart attack and several other health problems I have to give up the dream of finishing and flying
my own homebuilt experimental airplane.
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