Day 22 Tuesday Aug.4th.2009

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=180 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="1811d9c00egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="98" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 161 WIDTH="92"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="161" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="92" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=100 BGCOLOR="#33CC00" TEXT="#080000" background="04248493.png"> <div> <B>Day 22                                                Tuesday Aug.4th.2009</B></div> <div> <A HREF="alaska.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alaska Adventure"><U><B>Home Page</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id609.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Day 21 Monday Aug"><U><B>Back a Day        </B></U></A><B>                                                                                                                                                               </B><A HREF="id625.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Day 23 "><U><B> Next Day</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=380 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> Plan TBD</div> <div> <B>TUE Aug 4 - OPEN (Four people signed up for bear-watching trip) Anchorage</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Back at the motel now at 4:30 pm local time.  Worked on the plane and borrowed a set of jacks, now have it all working and tested.</div> <div> Thought we had it done yeasterday but when I took it for a test flight this morning the gear stayed down.  </div> <div> The people at the airport are all really great and help each other.  A mechanic lent us a set of jacks and let us use his tools. We got the plane on the</div> <div> jacks to see where is was blowing another breaker.  Quick to fix with the right tools and swung the landing gear a dozen time to really check it out.</div> <div> Now we are ready for the morning when we all fly down to Ketchikan AK via Yakatuk.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Tom</B></div> <div> <B>Not alot to write today. Just sat back in the hotel room having fixed the plane up and now the landing gear will go up and we can fly with the group tomorrow for the last time. We got up early and went to the airport thinking the landing gear was all fixed and ready to go. So ken took her up for a test flight and tryed putting the landing gear up but didnt manage to. He came down and we were all gutted so we took the plane down to the repair hanger and jacked it up and tryed to work out the problem. Ken thort he might have put the wired back the wrong way from wen he first had a look and he was right so we changed them ken tested it on the jacks and it was all working fine. We fueled up and moved the plane back with all the others and and tied down and came back to the hotel. Iv bin to the gym and sauna and steam room for abit and ben is fast asleep catching up on his beauty sleep. Last flight with the group tommoro down to ketchcan then its time to head home.</B></div> <div> <B>Tom </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ben </B></div> <div> <B>Not much to write about today. We started the day with an early start planning on heading to Bettles for the day, but as Ken did a test flight we realised the landing gear was still not fixed. From here we took the plane to a Mecanic where we put the plane on Jacks and tested the Landing gear. After quite a few hours Ken managed to get the gear fixed, The problem was that we had reversed polarity on a soleroid. Once this was all fixed and ready we headed back to the hotel at around half four. Once we where back i got to sleep for a couple of hours as i felt i needed to catch up on some sleep. As i woke up i found Tom also asleep on the other bed. Now we are all just preparing for our final flight as a group tomorow to Ketchican. Overall not done a great deal today, but looking forward to tomorow.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Bringing up the landing gear on Jack Stands</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="19c3e89f0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="671" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>b<IMG SRC="19c4e89f0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="671" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="19c6e89f0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="671" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="19c7e89f0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="671" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="19c8e89f0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="671" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="19c9e89f0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="671" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Up and locked,  so now down again.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="19cbe89f0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="671" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="19cce89f0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="671" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="19cde89f0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="671" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="19cee89f0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="671" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="19cfe89f0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="671" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Down and Locked,   we did this a dozen times.</B></div> <div> <I><B>Action photos by Tom</B></I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>