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The Biathlon World Cup!! Yeah so the silence has been due to me being back on the World Cup waxing skis for the Czech team! It’s been an crazy cool ride! Started out by flying my plane to Czech for the World Cup there, then flying back with Zdeněk Vitek:-) cool trip, then worked hard in Östersund (and did some work For my real job JN Solar as well) and then finished off in Oslo at the World Cup final! Unfortunately I did get sick just before the weekend in Oslo so I came home early….. and that is where a really unfortunate turn happened where Darcie Morton (one of the athletes I was supporting) didn’t get her skis on time at the start line!!! Aarrrggghhhh really frustrating when u just can’t do anything about it:-( other then that, it was an interesting feeling after four years to fully return into that life for 3 world cups in a row! Marketa Davidova the athlete who invited me to come and join the team back up did a great job!! Skid fast but as it is in biathlon, she was nail bitingly close from a podium…. Basically by one shot almost every race!
Thank you to my family and work for supporting me to be able to do this on such short notice!! ... See MoreSee Less

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Wow 😮! 7hrs 6min Zdeněk Vítek (one of the Czech Biathlon team coach/ support staff and Freind since I was about 16yrs old:-) and I flew back from Nove Mesto World Cup to Östersund! It was a fair bit of work but with wonderful help from the Control towers as always. We got through Poland straight up to Sweden. My plane had to work extra hard to fight a massive head side wind and fly around some storms! But a beautiful experience flying really high -22C outside:-) Markus brought us gas and this time we really needed it to make it home:-) now we are on the last leg home about 2.5hrs again into a little headwind. For his first small plane flight he has done really great 👍
Again you can check out our track by looking in flight radar at my planes number OK-YUA75

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Life is interesting:-)
I was going to help the Australian biathlon team to wax there skis and coach for Darcie Morton for the Ostersund and Oslo World Cup:-) then this Monday I got a call from the Czech Biathlon Team asking if after 4 years I could join them for the last three world cups as Marketa Davidova’s personal tech and help in the wax truck Generally!!! Whaaaaa!!! well, after four yrs I do feel very honoured to be asked….. the hardest always is to leave my family! But they thought it was ok since I was going to be away anywho… so I find myself on Zidek Air flying now over Germany on the way to Czech for the weekend and then the last three world cups to help support both the Czechs and Darcie:-) I also feel like the TeZon is in pretty good shape so it can take a little break for a few weeks while I do this:-). It will be fun to catch up with all my Biathlon family friends….. well and yeah it’s a very good test of my refurbished autopilot….. 4hrs in, it’s just lovely 🥰 ... See MoreSee Less

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Fenders Done!
This went much better than I thought, finally something that went slightly faster than expected. But yes I have been re doing these so many times I can barely count it!! Well finally I am satisfied with the result (they have a good flow to both front and rear fender flares)so now I only have the back of the tailgate lady and exterior is Mostly ready for Piant!!!
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Lights, Camera, Action!!
I’m pumped at how these turned out, I had to sink them i by just over a 1cm and
I’m glad Anna Carin made me do that, now they look right:-) lots of puzzly little prices to build, drill tap and weld. But result is cool with full adjustability. Finally my welding and things to do before paint list is getting short. Finish fixing up front fenders and rear wing and exterior will be complete:-) Then take out interior and weld out a bunch of things in there:-)
Also, today I got some suuuuper exciting news!!!! Will share that in another post on the weekend:-) something to do with VV!
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Next step….. Lights! Sweden is dark, sooo I always wanted to build in extra lights into the face of the car. And with widening it so much this was just the perfect place to put som nice xenon extra lights:-) Anna Carin being my hardest critic did notice that they stick out a little much…… so I will countersink them a little more, but otherwise I think these look great…… and yes it’s very much like Volvo 164 models! But I thought of this before I realized that, so it’s a bit funny.
Now to weld out the outer trim and put on all the nice trim pieces.
After getting the lights done it’s still the rear wing and the final touches on the front fenders, and FINALLY, the outer welding will be done:-)
Yeah slowly but surely getting there! ... See MoreSee Less