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| Home | WOW! It's been two and a half years since I updated this page! Updated 10/27/2007 This is the page where I get to talk about myself. I won't go into to a lot of lifetime details, but I am now 30 years old, and two and a half years in to this project. I was born in Litchfield, IL in 1977 to Jeff and Kim Jensen (still married-33 years!!!!!). I have one sister who was born two years after me. Her name is Brenna, and she is married to Dakin-a high school buddy of mine. They are now expecting their first baby to make me an uncle again (Brit has a niece already). We moved to Florida when I was two, lived there through half a year of first grade, and I've been back here in Illinois ever since. I went through school in Lincoln, IL, eventually graduating from Illinois State University, in Normal, IL with a Bachelor of Science in Art (funny huh!!) This is now where we live. What a normal place Normal, IL is! While I was in college, I started working at the local FBO, Image Air as a line boy pumping fuel. I loved that job, and it helped me gain the knowledge I have today to do my current job. Back to that in a second. I worked the line for two and a half years before leaving the FBO for a brief stint (five months) working for a rental car company, so that I could be with my fiancé and her job. That got old quick (not my fiancé, the job!) and I went back to work for Image Air, driving an hour and a half each way, just to be back at the airport. We were married somewhere in this area...April 20th 2002 to be precise. YAY!! Now I was the Line Manager, which I did for two years. While entering my second year as the manager of that department, I went to talk to my boss (the owner) about working in the sales department. Well, he thought that was a great idea, and that I'd be good at it. Hmmm...did I make the right choice here?? Well, turns out I did and I have been the Aircraft Sales Manager for four and a half years, and I have had the chance to do a lot of flying in our company King Air 200 and Lear 35. Ok, now to the point of this part of our website. I am a pilot and ground instructor. I am a Commercial rated pilot carrying Instrument, and Multi Engine ratings and I currently have almost 1,000 hours of flight time. We have owned two airplanes, the first was a 1974 Piper Cherokee 140, which we owned with five partners for a little over a year. The second was a 1968 Piper Cherokee 180D, which we owned with three partners, again for a little over a year. We sold our share in that airplane so that we could start building our own. On to the RV-7. I have always wanted to build an airplane, and we are finally doing it! Enough dreaming! I thought that I had decided to go the route of composite construction and build a Velocity, but came to a decision that I live in an environment that would make it difficult to work with composites in the winter without some major modifications to the shop. So the choice was made to build a Van's RV. I have always liked these little airplanes, and I am very happy with my decision. Now, which one to build? I immediately chose the RV-8 for it's fighter canopy, and tandem seating. That idea was shot down really quick when I told Brittne about the seating arrangement. So, we compromised on the RV-7, and I couldn't be happier....well, maybe an -8... Things are progressing nicely on the 7. As you can see in the build log, I am well in to the final staged of the fuselage, and will be ordering the finish kit soon. Check out the next page for pics of our previous airplanes. |