| Good News from Little Rock. Bill has been looking for a job for quite sometime now. This business of poppin' rivets all day is getting old. I guess it would, he's been doing it ever since he retired from the Air Force in 1996. On Monday, June 9, he will start his new job as Systems Engineer at Air Transport International LLC -- ATI for short. His job will be to examine the problem with the plane and tell the A & P people what sort of fix they need to put on the plane. His office will be downtown. He will have some travel involved also, sometimes to Peru!! Another bonus is I might get to go with him! Having never been out of the states (Tijuana, Mexico at age 8 or 9 doesn't count) I think it would be thrilling to go! I copied this from the ATI web site: ATI combination passenger/cargo "combi" aircraft are specially designed to accommodate not only important cargo, but also the most valuable payload of all - passengers. With the only DC-8-62/72 "combi" fleet in the world, ATI has the ability to simultaneously transport 32 passengers and 10 pallet positions of freight on the main deck, but in distinctly separate areas of the aircraft. There is also below-deck capacity for baggage or additional cargo. These aircraft are truly exceptional because they are the only DC-8's in the world that are FAA approved to operate in this configuration. If you are interested, you can go to the ATI web site and peek at it. Air Transport International |