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Exciting News at Blue Thunder Air Racing!

June 2009

The high point of the month was June 16-20 during the FAST training and the PRS.  George put on a spectacular show, we learned a lot about Thunder Mustangs, and how they respond to various techniques on the racecourse.  Fuel pressure is still a wonderment, but George, with “Rapid Travel” is working through this question and will be a major contender in Super Sport this year.

Our Blue Crew member Jim Adams recruited Jared and Greg from Exotic Auto Body of Vacaville, CA to do the painting of “Blue II”.  It was clear from the moment these gentlemen stepped on the property that they knew what they were doing.  And a darn nice job they did.

Blue II sat outside for a couple of days sucking up the UV rays to cure the paint.  This picture was taken when Blue II was being moved from the paint shop to the AAR race headquarters. Back in the shop and during the PRS, we were still able to get some electrical and assembly work done.  Pictures of wire bundles are not very impressive, so we will keep them in the photo record. 6/30/2009 The prop arrived yesterday, and we did not waste a minute taking it out of the box and installing it.

I was truly in the hopes of showing a better picture of Blue II out on the ramp with all the graphics on. Unfortunately there is so much to do, that we can not waste a minute, even on PR photos.

Next month will be dedicated to completing the instrumentation wiring and flight readiness inspections. We hope to take some photos with our FAA maintenance inspector issuing the air worthiness certificate. There will be a slight lull in operations in July while we are in Oshkosh, WI July 27- 31st. The OSH objective will be to meet with our vendors, fans, supporters and to preview some of these pictures with our sponsors. I will be spending some time in the vendor booths with our sponsors, so please stop by to say hello.

Once again the Blue Crew Thanks you.

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