Brazil Summer '08?

I realize this is very late in the game to really be pursuing this, but I could use your prayers about serving an internship on the Amazon River in Brazil this upcoming summer. If this is in God's will and I can get things in order, I would be going down there for eight or nine weeks with Asas de Socorro, a fully Brazilian missionary flight organization. Among other things, they fly missionaries and Christian professionals into the Amazon interior.

Basically, I'm asking God for wisdom as to whether this is His will for this summer. If He lays it on your heart, please remember me in your prayers.

Grand Canyon, AZ.

Well, I don't really have time to update on all that's been going on in the past couple of months, so I'll just let the pictures from the road trip do the talking:

Grand Canyon, AZ


Road trip comrades. From left: Bryan Dueck, Jonathan de Jongh, Luke Eckhoff, and me. Zion National Park, UT.


AZ Mining and Mineral Museum, Phoenix, AZ.


Too bad I can't afford the book...


Apache Junction, AZ. We figured we needed to get pictures of cacti in their natural habitat.


An Arizona sunset. Taken in my car in Glendale.


Hugging a palm tree at ASU. Oh how I miss it!

It's not Rocket Science...

...but it is Rocket Engineering. Some of you might be wondering what I'm doing with my life right now, besides school. Right now, I'm blessed to be employed at a place called Rocket Engineering, where I get to help "soup up" airplanes! We take Beechcraft Dukes and Bonanzas, as well as Piper Malibus (all piston-engined aircraft) and convert them to turboprops! For example, the Beechcraft Duke starts with two 380 hp piston engines. We remove them, and fit the aircraft with a pair of Pratt & Whitney PT-6 engines, each generating 550 hp. The aircraft's performance jumps through the roof! Our converted plane is then called a Royal Turbine.

Beechcraft Duke before conversion, with dual 380 hp piston engines still mounted.


Beechcraft Duke (now a Royal Turbine) after conversion to dual 550 hp engines. Everything from the firewall forward is converted.