Robert heads up the Jet Guys shop with overall supervision as to the days events and how to accomplish each task to his high standards. This really comes naturally to Robert as he was the Director of Maintenance for a large turbine airplane operations.

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Because of Robert's experience in the building, modification, repair and maintenance of Canard aircraft he knows exactly when and how projects need to be completed.  Robert makes the aircraft safe inside the budget established at the beginning. Because of his 30 years experience with Canard aircraft he also knows how much what you want done will cost.

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The shop has different sections and everybody going and doing different things at the same time. Robert insures the completion of the tasks come together to move airframes along in their progress to completion and flight.

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An example of what happens in the shop during an aircraft modification would be... Steve in in the engine shop getting an engine ready for installation while Mike is cutting and welding the tubing for the engine mount to mount it on the airframe. Robert was deep in the back seat of the airplane running wires because the owner wanted dual touch screen EFIS with ADSB in and out installed. And everyone pitches in to help each other where needed.

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If a situation arises where we want a snarky metal piece over here to hold a micro switch hidden but attached to the fuselage side, Mike can go back to the milling machine and produce one from raw stock metal. In the meantime we have an avionics guy who is pulling wires and setting things up for the ADSB system.

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When the project is ready for flight we all go into "flight test mode". Through Robert's vast experience we all know exactly what the airplane should be doing. However if it doesn't do as we expected, whether it's systems, engine heat or flying characteristics, we also have the experience to rectify the problem and end flight tests with a safe, properly flying and functioning airplane.