Jack

Jackson Eugene Arnold - The Crew's Flight Engineer

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Jackson Eugene Arnold

Our Flight Engineer Jack shares the same birthday as Mr. O, 26 October 1992. Jack is a talented fellow with varied interests. He is currently a senior in high school. He works at our office two days a week. Jack is the head Acolyte at our little church as well as being the Deputy Beadle, Epistle Reader and Scribe of the Vestry. Jack is an advanced guitar student studying with Father Ironhand. Jack studies Taekwando under Master Instructor Scott Berry at the Purple Belt level. He is an excellent shot with a rifle, pistol and shotgun. His favorite pieces are a M1911 and a CAR-15. His favorite shooting pastime is pumpkin rolling. He has also been participating in a local Shakespearean company, The Pine Valley Players. Jack recently played the part of Malvolio in the Twelfth Night and Joseph in Christmas through the Ages. Jack is a qualified tactical military vehicle operator up to 1 1/4 tons. His current car is a 1973 VW Thing, Mr. K.

Jack loves flying and will be taking formal lessons from a real instructor as soon as N150SH is flyable.

In the meantime, Jack has taken up horse riding and we have a horse. With a great grandfather who was in the Seventh Cavalry and a grandfather who learned to ride there, Jack was ready to ride! He started Western and has begun "Eastern" or "English" style riding at Horse of the Sun in Pine Valley just up the hill. Perhaps inspired by our friends the Langstaffs, he bought an Australian saddle, which he thinks is a combination of East and West, kind of like a modern version of a cavalry saddle. Then, he got a M1936 Phillips Cavalry Saddle. Sadly he does not know how it rides, the horses are larger now. Who is not? Take a look!

Back to the guitar! Jack's real passion, outside of being a "phone geek", is playing the guitar. He is working on putting together a band - Superfluity. The name comes from the General Epistle of Saint James, the First Chapter, beginning at the Seventeenth Verse, "…lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls."

Superfluity is a Christian Rock Band, sometimes heavy metal, sometimes classic hymns. Always unpredictable and entertaining, always to the Glory of God.