{"id":49,"date":"2005-02-08T08:46:04","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T08:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=49"},"modified":"2005-02-08T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T08:46:04","slug":"the-practice-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"The practice kit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than order a $1500 box of frustration, I decided to order the practice kit from Van&#8217;s aircraft.  This is  a piece of control surface designed to get you familiar with the basics of stressed-skin aluminum construction.  I figure that if this process totally sucks, I&#8217;m out $35 and I got some bitchin&#8217; new tools to make avant-garde aluminum ornaments for the wife&#8217;s garden.  But for now, armed with the new tools, I&#8217;m planning on going forward with it as soon as time allows (crunch time production sucks).<br \/>\nBut first, here are a couple of tools I forgot.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/Laptop.JPG\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" align=\"bottom\" title=\"Craptop\" longdesc=\"Craptop\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the laptop, or as I like to call it, the craptop.  it&#8217;s an old Dell Inspiron 8100, good enough in its prime to finish Return to Castle Wolfenstein and run such wonderful music apps as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propellerheads.se\/\/products\/reason\/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaymain\" title=\"Reason\" target=\"_blank\">Reason<\/a> and Cubase SX, but now relegated to be the logging\/blogging machine with occasional duties as a Serato Scratch Live platform.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/ClecosNPliers-tbn.JPG\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" align=\"top\" title=\"clecos\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is a fuzzy, low light picture of some clecos and cleco pliers that are part of the ever growing collection.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/PracticeKit3.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" align=\"top\" title=\"practice kit\" \/><br \/>\nAnd this is the practice kit itself, with plans and parts inventory.  Parts inventoried, kit ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than order a $1500 box of frustration, I decided to order the practice kit from Van&#8217;s aircraft. This is a piece of control surface designed to get you familiar with the basics of stressed-skin aluminum construction. I figure that if this process totally sucks, I&#8217;m out $35 and I got some bitchin&#8217; new tools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}