From early morning it was raining, the forecast was for the rain to increase, the news was full of flood warnings. Here we go again too wet to fly.
I arrived a little later at the airfield than normal to find that Rick Wiles and Ged Nevisky were already deeply entrenched in the removal of the Guslaunch winch engine. Ged had collected the replacement engine using a large lorry fitted with a hiab crane and the idea was to to remove the old engine while they had the crane available.
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| Rick and Ged stripping out the winch engine in the rain. |
This work continued throughout the day during which they were joined by Dave Bourchier and Martin Smith and kept well supplied with tea by Vic. Is Vic the most experienced tea boy in the country? By the end of the day, both engines were in place in the hanger, the clutch had been removed from the “new engine” ready to be replaced by the fluid flywheel which has been removed from the “old” engine. Great work chaps.
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| Victor, the country's most experienced tea boy. |
Meanwhile CFI Don was preparing his course materials for the evening lecture entitled “A appreciation of cloud flying”. An what did I do? I hear you ask. Well I got the best job really flying the various cloud flying exercises in the simulator and setting it up for the evening demonstrations.
The day finished with the “Cloud Flying” lecture and demonstrations being delivered by Don to a very attentive group of 10 pilots after they were all fed by Pauline with what can only be described as “Gourmet” burgers.
Steve
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