Driving and flying.

 
I used the bag that the ashes were delivered in.
It was tied to a string just long enough to reach the leading edge of the tailplane.
The other end was tied to the seat frame so that I could retrieve the remains of the bag.
 The bag itself was rigged to burst as the string and a few catches would tear the bag apart.

Compton Abbas

I had an invite to the Pooley's open day Fly-In.

With no aeroplane to fly we had to drive there in Paul's Jaguar.
Two aeroplanes did arrive, one from Popham, but they had to leave when the weather began to deteriorate.

The lunch was very good, I had a fully packed chicken wrap.

Vintage Aircraft Club Fly-In at Popham



Weather on the Sunday was much better and so Pooley's had a better day at Compton Abbas.
I drove to Popham to attend the Fly-In there.
Even when there is not a Fly-In scheduled, you'd believe there was one on every good weather day at Popham.
This weekend there was a STOL competition at Popham, but I did not attend as I drove to southwest Wales.

France

Le Touquet in France is only just over an hour's flight from Blackbushe, and so we flew the Cardinal there in brilliant weather.
I was along for my expertise!
I paid the landing fee, and we rented bicycles for 15 Euros each.
Lunch was at the Paris Plage restaurant.

Test Flight

Richard F worked on this aeroplane to put it in the air; it was bought from the USA.
So I went to Brimpton to give it a go, plus three barrel rolls of course.

Wales.

I left eary Saturday morning for the three and a half hour drive to Llanelli.
The object was to fly with Rich W in his Mascaret.
We flew from Pembrey across the Brecon Beacons to Shobden and back.

The weather on Sunday was showers in a strong wind and so we went to a model engineering show.
In the afternoon I drove the three and a half hours back to Guildford.

This afternoon I flew with Richard F again in the Acrosport 2.
We explored turns, stalls, slow flight, and a PFL.
Now he has regained his enthusiasm to fly and will renew his PPL in a Cherokee.

It's a busy time, let's see if I can accomplish all my tasks this week...

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