What a day!! We have had the most incredible support from everyone --- David and Juan at Stirling Aviation in Concord, CA, Frank at Certified Engines in Miami, and the other racers. The guys at Stirling Aviation worked miracles. David unexpectedly found an oil cooler on the field and installed it in N37TJ. Tamra and I turned into test pilots again today -- a role I never expected. The airplane flew well and after a few orbits over the airport, David and Juan checked the oil cooler and found no contaminants in it. Woohoo!!! He signed off an airworthy airplane. N37TJ is finally happy and so are it's pilots. We are ready to start the air race early tomorrow. We hope we are able to sleep tonight after all the excitement of the past few days,
The rest of the day included mandatory briefings, including presentations from members of Travis Air Force Base because we will be flying close to their airspace. We also received instructions about the flybys.
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