Thanksgiving 2010

We celebrated Thanksgiving with Dwight's family in KY. Our turkey was delicious. A slow cooked turkey in a metal trash can - better known as Trash Can Turkey. If you check the Internet, you will see that this is getting to be a very popular method of cooking a turkey.  If you want to try it for yourself check it out here.

Trash Can Turkey in the making. Dwight's brother, Eric, cooked the turkey at his place in Indiana and brought it to the family gathering in Kentucky.



Dad and Dwight peel potatoes



Dwight's sister Pam, with our Scott and Stephanie

 

Thirteen of us Jarboes were able to get together.

We are truly grateful for the blessing of family. We missed our daughter and her family who were celebrating back in Ohio with Jason's family.



A father and two of his sons (Marvin, left, and Eric)



Darren (our niece Brittany's husband ) takes his turn on the Wii.



Floats

We are excited! This week the floats arrived for the Cessna 206 which will be used in Brazil for His Kingdom. With the many rivers in Brazil such as the Amazon and it's tributaries, this airplane will be well used in ministry.

Check out the web page for Asas de Socorro (Wings of Help)  Although it is in Portuguese, you can tell a lot from the pictures  http://www.asasdesocorro.org.br/html/index.php. Ryan Joy, their maintenance director in Manaus, Brazil, is a graduate of the MMS program.

Here's a video of the arrival of the floats at MMS.

Friday

In the MMS Aviation engine shop there was a decidedly English tone to wrap up the work week.  Andy Porter and Mark Beckwith measured parts of the Continental O-300D engine they had just disassembled.  Andy and Mark are from England and are here through the partnership MMS Aviation has with Mission Aviation Fellowship of the UK.  They're from different parts of England, and even we tone-deaf "Yanks" can hear they speak with different accents.  They were working under the supervision of staff member, Ian Hengst.

Andy (left) records data as Mark measures parts with a micrometer.

In the afternoon, friends we knew in Bolivia (with Wycliffe Bible Translators) stopped by the hangar for a short visit.  Steve worked in the print shop and Betty taught in a missionary kids' school.  This was in Cochabamba, Bolivia in the late 1970s and early '80s.

Rena, Steve, Betty and me at the MMS outreach map in the conference room

It is GroundCrew Time

Late this afternoon we headed to Zanesville, OH (65 roundtrip) to the Franklin Printing Company.  The latest MMS GroundCrew newsletter was ready to be picked up.  This company does a great printing job and we are happy with the quality work they do. There will be a few more steps before you receive it in your mailbox. The MMS Ladies are busy sticking labels on envelopes and will have a final "push" just after Thanksgiving to get those envelopes stuffed (approx. 5,000).

We're pretty sure this company was not founded by Benjamin Franklin.



Dwight loads the last box



Mid-Air Repair

Our guys at MMS know how to change airplane tires, but none of them have ever done it like this!  Just for fun we thought you would enjoy this old video clip of Gladys Ingall installing a wheel during flight.

Gladys Ingles was a member of a barnstorming troupe called the 13 Black Cats in the 1920s. Ingles was a wing walker; in this film, she shows her fearlessness in a classic barnstorming fashion to save an airplane that has lost one of its main wheels. Ingles is shown with a replacement wheel being strapped to her back and then off she goes as "Up She Goes," a duet from the era, provides the soundtrack. In the video, Ingles transfers herself from the rescue plane to the one sans main gear tire. She then expertly works herself down to the undercarriage only a few feet from a spinning prop. It's certainly a feat many mechanics wouldn't even try on the ground with the engine running.

They Come and They Go!

Busy, describes the activities in the MMS hangars.  This past week a Piper Navajo flew in from Alaska needing some repair and modification. The complete list of work lined up is on the MMS Blog. This airplane is used by Arctic Barnabas Ministries in Alaska. They provide pastoral care to remote pastors and missionary families.


The Piper Navajo (Arctic Barnabas Ministries) arrives from Alaska

As you can see, our guys didn't waste any time getting down to work on the Navajo

At the same time, MMS was also putting the finishing touches on the Cessna Skymaster for LAMP, a North American Ministry to Indigenous Peoples in the US and Canada.This particular airplane is used in Canada. Below is the test flight video. The final departure was early Sunday morning.