8KQ Challenges Liberty Students

This weekend we took 8KQ to Medley, West Virginia where we participated in the Liberty University mission aviation retreat. The venue was Heaven's Landing Retreat, the home and brainchild of Mitch and Teresa Pennington. They were gracious hosts to about 30 Liberty students (most of whom are Aviation majors), and representatives from several mission aviaton groups.

Great fellowship, great challenges from the Bible, and great opportunity to share our experiences as mission aviators. Of course, 8KQ was a hit with the students, and though the weather was pretty wet and miserable, it didn't keep them from exploring every nook of the new airplane.

8KQ Hits the Road

It's been a while since an update. Mostly the time has been spent in training Mark, as well as taking the JAARS Kodiak out and seeing what it can do. We've also designed a simple flight demonstration to show folks its capabilities. The JAARS publicity people have also taken the Kodiak on the road to thank donors and supporters that made possible the purchase of N498KQ and the others that follow. Last week we were in Atlanta and Orlando.

We're getting to know this airplane, and developing our operating philosophy as well as our training curriculum for future JAARS pilots of Kodiaks. It's a beautiful, capable airplane - but like I tell everyone who asks about it, "it's only an airplane."

I promise to post some pics about some of our recent flying.