Captain Jebediah had just enough time after returning from a survival exercise over the weekend for a quick pattern flight before sunset to ensure the Civvie Prototype repairs were done properly
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today's scheduled Civvie flight is too distant for a local forecast, but airships plying the route between Sheltered Rock & Umbarg say Wx OK
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Bill snagged a nice departure photo as Jeb banked around to head west towards the grasslands where he will follow the shore north for a bit
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almost home, Jeb is 18km north of KSC descending nice & easy thru 1.5km. Flight has cleared him to enter the pattern on base leg for Rwy09
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Jeb is turning from base to final & his approach is looking as nice as the last one so far but faster since glideslope is steeper for Rwy09
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emergency vehicles are heading out - Jeb caught that same hill that took him out last time but this crash looks worse from what we can see
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okay Jeb has been extricated from the upside-down Civvie and appears to suffer mainly from a large cut to the forehead, is off to med center
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emergency crews are still inspecting the wreckage to ensure no fuel leaks or vapors are present. No smoke visible from launch control
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wreckage has been cleared & 1st impression is it doesn't look much worse than what Val did to it on the return of its maiden flight last yr
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Jeb has been released from the med center with his noggin wrapped up. No other injuries. Civvie is being brought back to HAB for inspection
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lots of sneezing going around lately - Simon says he has kerbs taking another look at materials used for the recent facilities repair work
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Civvie Production is rdy for more internal cabling work w/all ctrl surfaces attached & Prototype will begin airframe integrity testing
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this past week has reminded us all once again that our endeavor can be hard at times. More details in our bit.ly/OpsSummary1-30…
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there's been a rather large uptick in admissions to the MedCenter this past wk. Please follow proper hygiene protocols in public work spaces
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we now have 1/4 of our staff out sick, including Cheranne, who was already stressing about all the papers she still has left to review
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officials from the Disease Management Organization have arrived - it looks like the situation has become more serious. Meeting w/Drew now
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DMO agents are working through the campus, taking random surface swabs and air samples. All employees please cooperate with them as needed
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we will comply w/ DMO officials request to shut down KSC tmrw so all employees can be screened to see if any carriers exist among unaffected
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KSA/C7 operations are mostly suspended today while KSC is shut down to allow screening of all employees on campus for any disease carriers
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several of the DMO agents have fallen ill, some of whom had no prior contact to any KSC employee. They've now gone to full HAZMAT protocols
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KSC remains closed & under quarantine while the DMO continues w/ its investigation. We will share any news we receive from them immediately
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we've gathered all the info we can about the health situation here in our weekly ops sitrep. Everyone feel better! bit.ly/OpsSummary2-6-…
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the Disease Management Organization reports that KSC needs to be shut down & fully decontaminated. We're not happy, but health is important
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we hope to be back at KSC again by 2/27, in the meantime KSA ops will move to Umbarg. Full report available here: bit.ly/KSCShutdown
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good news to start off the day is that most of our staff that got sick first are finally showing improvement with continued treatment *phew*
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everyone is ready to begin heading out tomorrow to our temporary homes in Umbarg, where a quarantine zone has been setup for all KSC staff
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sunset from the tunnel access to Umbarg City, along which the remainder if KSC staff will be traveling today. So long for now, KSC!
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over half of our sick employees have made full recoveries so far, and the same is expected for the remainder over these next few days, yay!
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KSC decontamination is proceeding on schedule according to the latest report Drew has received from the DMO. All our staff are healthy again
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DMO says they have fallen behind schedule thanks to a major equipment malfunction. Looks like they won't have KSC cleaned up until Feb 28th
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the support village however was finished earlier this wk & we can still start moving staff back on Monday & be rdy for ops to resume 3/1
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today we start moving kerbs back to KSC, starting with any staff living in the support village, while DMO gets back to decontamination ops
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KSC as seen from the top of Building B in the support village on a lovely day, great to be back! Final staff/crew arriving this afternoon
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busy day for everyone to start getting caught up on work that was unable to be done while offsite, which wasn't as much as we feared
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Simon has reported that the VAB & HAB both had a good day of getting "spooled up" and ready to dive back into work tomorrow full speed ahead
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we've made the order for new parts to rebuild the Civvie Prototype. C7 hopes to have it back in the air by the end of the month
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we have our replacement parts for the Civvie Prototype, it will finish repairs over this week & part of next before being ready to fly again
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repairs to the Civvie Prototype are also progressing on schedule & Simon reports it will be flight capable once again by the end of next wk
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HAB has closed out repair work on the Civvie Prototype, ironically Jeb rotates back in the pilot seat. Flight tmrw scheduled for 3rd sunrise
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late start to the day at KSC after power was restored from an outage; our main power conduit from Umbarg was cut. Fried animal found, dead
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we're getting better cabling installed with a semi-conductive sheath to hopefully prevent tunneling animals from chewing through it again
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we were hoping weather would clear up but low-pressure system is stalled over the mountains, pulling air from the ocean & Rwy09 still closed
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astronauts are off on an excursion tomorrow, so Civvie Prototype flight checkout will have to wait now until the start of next week earliest
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astronauts have broken camp out in the Grasslands & will be making their way back the rest of today, hope to arrive before 4th sunset
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assuming they get back here in time, Jeb will take the Civvie Prototype up for a quick pattern flight to make sure repair work is all good
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astronauts have made it back, weather is still favorable so Jeb is heading straight to the ready room while HAB tows out Civvie Prototype
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after pre-flight checks Jeb has his taxi/takeoff clearance out to turf Rwy27, taking the slope down from the main runway with care
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Jeb is climbing out after a successful takeoff, will fly a normal departure of rwy hdg to 800m then turn right to begin landing pattern
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passing abeam Rwy27 4km to the north on his downwind leg Jeb is prepping for his turn to base then final, reports all handling is good
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coming in low on short final, Jeb says he forgot how much heavier this aircraft is. Flt ctrl reminded him of go-around but he says all good
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Jeb is taxiing back in after a bumpy but non-damaging landing. Bob set his camera on the runway & took some pics remotely as Civvie flew by
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C7 is happy their repairs to the Prototype are good & we have a craft now for any new contracts prior to Production model return to flight
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a bit of overtime today but we can confirm the Mk3 is ready to go! That & more from this past week in our bit.ly/OpsSummary4-3-…
