Day: April 23, 2011

Completely different kettle of fish compared to Day 1! I hadn’t heard from Ken by late morning whether the X’air’s permit had arrived so I decided to get a flight in in MYRO. With the forecast weather being a bit unpredictable it made sense to stick to a local bimble, so I decided to do a circuit of Maidstone in an anti-clockwise direction and in fact ended up going as far south as Paddock Wood. While I was flying, the sky, which had started off this morning totally clear, began to look more and more evil and there began to be more and more updraughts, signalling the development of Cbs (cumulo-nimbus) storm clouds. My timing was just right, because as I turned final to land on runway 11, my screen started to be hit by huge dollops of rain. So I got MYRO back to its parking spot as soon as I could after landing, emptied all my kit out and began to put its covers on with the accompaniment of growling thunder in the background. But I was too late – as I was covering the wings, down came the rain. I was pretty soaked in quite a short time and with just the wings partially covered, I retreated to the car where I sat for about twenty minutes until the storm shower had passed. Then I leathered the uncovered bits of MYRO off and finished putting its covers on before leaving for home feeling a bit damp

By the way, while I was typing this, Ken came round a bit earlier with the X’air’s permit paperwork. It did arrive this morning after all, so the X’air can now start to be flown. That’s the best news of the day – possibly Peter will want to fly tomorrow but Ken wants to anyway on Monday. So let’s hope the weather holds up through to Day 4! 😆