Jason has had many opportunities to do various projects in the hangar, such as: tire changes, riveting, structural repairs on King Airs, fabricating parts out of sheet metal, electrical work, painting, fabric covering, fiberglass work and aircraft inspections.
This is a picture of rivets that are used to hold airplanes together. The majority of the sheetmetal work Jason does involves riveting.
Jason will be overhauling one of these engines in the engine shop soon.
These are a few parts that are made at JAARS (minus the crankshaft, for those of you who know what that is) :)
Here is a portion of the engine shop.
This is Jason's co-intern, David.
The sheetmetal shop where Jason fabricates parts for the airplanes.
This is a Helio Courier rudder that was shipped from Sentani, Indonesia to the JAARS Center to have damage repaired. Jason took it completely apart and is currently rebuilding it.
There used to be two patches that were riveted right onto the outside of this plane. Jason drilled out those old rivets and made new patches that are flush with the rest of the plane.IN THE KITCHEN:
Keri spends four mornings a week in the kitchen helping to prepare the noon meal. She has made some really sweet friends. A typical day starts with preparing the salad bar (restocking items and putting them in new clean containers), then making the daily side salad to go with the hot meal, then helping the baker (make rolls, pie crusts, cut desserts, etc.). She leaves just before noon to pick up Patrick from "school" then they come back together to have lunch at the cafeteria and usually meet new people who sit at the table with them.
This is the baking area...Carol is one of the volunteer bakers.
Here is the soup area with Elsa, Sarah (Keri's "boss") and Dee. The green containers on the bottom right are the salad bar containers that get filled/changed out each morning.
The counter against the back wall in this picture is Keri's "work station."
AT THE "MK STATION"
Patrick spends four mornings a week at "school," as we call it. He absolutely loves it there! He has two regular teachers--Ms. Beth and Ms. Ila--but also has other volunteer teachers come in from time to time. Some days he is the only one in his class and other times there are a couple other children there--but he gets a lot of one on one attention. They go for walks, play outside, do crafts, sing songs, read books, eat snack and have lots of free play time.
On day 2, after two full days of exploring and camping, Patrick finally had had enough. We didn't think it could be done, but Jason we exhausted the little guy! Of course, by Tuesday he was back up to speed--it's taken us all week to recover!
An exact replica of the Wright Flyer--with Patrick, of course
