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Today was taxi practice, and I got behind the yoke of an operational aircraft for the first time in eighteen years. Took the instructor and myself from the school hangar parking area to the fuel tank farm about two-thirds of the length of the runway away, so the plane could be refueled for all the other students in my class and their practice. And then I taxied us back to where we started after fill-up was done. Probably all of two or three tenths of a Hobbs meter hour.

This autumn has been the season of breakdowns at the school. Before break two weeks ago, the tug tractor got sidelined with contamination of the brake fluid and it's still being fixed. Meanwhile, the vehicle door to the hangar also malfunctioned, and so it had to be repaired today as well.

Tomorrow/thursday is the 101st ("tenthy-first"?) birthday of Evelyn "Mama Bird" Johnson, the founder/still-current CEO of the Morristown airport and a living legend in the world of aviation. The school hangar is hosting her birthday party, so in addition to all the fixing up and learning, we students had to do a lot of tidying of the hangar space nearest the taxiway/runway. We hid the broken tug behind a very large sign; since all four wheels had been removed it would have been impossible to put it anyplace else. Chairs and tables were brought in and moved, the floor soaked and squeegied, the trash cans emptied and re-bagged, loose pieces of aviation hardware relocated to locker rooms and closets. We'll finish the job early in the morning...

...And probably take a test on all the stuff we should have been learning this week. The scholastic life.

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