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For a long time I've admired the aircraft designs of Burt Rutan and have dreamt of flying one someday. My friend, Kurt, has owned a homebuilt design of Rutan's, a Vari-Eze, for several years and I've tried to go flying with him whenever I can, but that hasn't been very often. I'm thinking about getting more involved in aviation again, so when Kurt offered to let me help him with some repairs to his plane the last couple weekends I jumped at the chance.

This past Saturday I drove out to Kurt's hangar and hung around most of the day. He had the plane up on jacks in the hangar. Mostly I just hung around and offered opinions and encouragement regarding how to attempt improvements.

I think it looks pretty good without the main gear. It's hard to convince Kurt to make it retractable--seems to be a sore point for some reason.

I'm looking forward to hopefully helping Kurt out some more this summer if I can fit it into my schedule. Going to work is overrated, especially on the weekends, which I seem to be doing more of lately, so maybe that will have to go...