Gotcha!

What your looking at here is a "Gotcha" today its howling outside, and I am preparing my machine for the French trip, between now and then, a family holiday, work commitments mean that I wont be flying, this weekend is it. There is a short list of things to do, following a flight last night over USS George Bush (pictures to follow), the wing trim failed. While fixing it this morning we had to strip the whole machine down which meant I looked at the fuel filter from both sides otherwise I might have missed this crack.

From Thorney Island we are planning to take off and head south over 58 miles of water to Cherbourg, if the the glass in this filter had failed due to the vibration, there were two outcomes, wet feet and may be a fire. Hmm!

Farewell Tom!

Off to the Shadow Flight Centre at Old Sarum, Tom takes the "Dink" across to be looked at. Its packed away in its tin, the Shadow sets off from Thorney Island. Its been rested since dancing a dosie DOH! with an Oak tree...

Decision Not

At the fly in a friend clipped the gel coat of the wing on a bush as he passed, duck tape and "toyota white" to the rescue and we thought it was fixed. A careful preflight told another story, looking not at the damage, but at the result of the damage enabled us all too see a compression of the wing at the root. Thinking one layer deeper had a positive outcome even if that was a long ride home.