Great
news: John Nestor has broken the six week
drought of Friday flying.
Not
so great news: it took him only fifteen minutes to
do it. Which also partly explains why it was just
a one flight Friday, and could so easily have been
the continuation of a seven week drought.
The
partly bit of the explanation is due to the fact
that so many of the regular Friday crew are
currently missing from action because of being
somewhere else. With Barry McCarthy, Ken Mitchell,
Bob Hainsworth and Charles Hoch far away, Arthur
Mailey nursing injuries at home, Bob Turner
otherwise engaged and Steve Bowtell, Shane Tuck
and Karl Bodi busy at work, it would never have
been a big day anyway.
And
then, just to seal it, came the overcast.
Turning
a month and a half of lemons into lemonade, the
members present took advantage of the dull morning
to work away the effects of almost the whole year
so far of rain and flood and high winds.
With
great help from aero club committee man Kevin
O’Brien and one of the airfield tractors, Tony
Sorensen, Judith Smith, John Knox and Garrett
Russell supervised the filling of pot holes to
provide a much more stable parking spot for the
Pie Cart and its tow vehicle.
Meanwhile
Lindsay Mitchell and John Nestor consulted with
Speedy Gonsalves and Bert Persson on the IS-30
work in progress, with the result that John is now
in charge of a totally new wiring loom (and anyone
proposing to fly it will be required to undertake
a BBC announcer course in order to maintain a
suitably high standard of radio transmissions).
And
because it was still overcast and the cloud base
looked so low, we then mowed six weeks worth of
rain and flood-fuelled grass away from the tie
down area.
Sharp-eyed
readers will notice a member on the mower who has
not been mentioned yet.
Mike
Grady arrived to assume his brand new role and
relieve Knoxy for the afternoon tug shift, and
became a willing member of the mowing team
instead.
And
then, after lunch, Mike launched John Nestor for
his fifteen minutes of fame in the Club Libelle.
The
weekend weather looks much better and today sees a
Women in Aviation event at YCAB which may result
in a few extra visitors to the flight line and
will definitely see several engine runs on the
DC-3. So who’s coming out?
