Day: June 4, 2011

And don’t I need it, just. I recently had a small knee op and wasn’t able to do much that involved lifting or excessive movement last week-end, so I couldn’t wait to get back down to MYRO today. The job was to get MYRO’s engine off, ready to take for shock-load checking, with the advantage that I’d then be able to see whether the fuselage main tube had been damaged in the accident.

The engine came off very easily after I’d tagged all the wires ready for when I reconnect them and the fantastic news is that the main tube looks perfectly OK. This means that it’s ‘game on’ and MYRO can be repaired. I made a phone call late this afternoon and tomorrow I plan to pick up some of the tubes I will need together with a pod. This really is great as I’m now beginning to see some movement out of the terrible disaster that befell me last month. If all goes well, I’ll be nipping across to Mitcham, near Croydon, tomorrow morning and then up to Bedford Microlights at Sandy in the afternoon where some long tubes that I have to pick up have been stored for the last few months.

So it’s fingers crossed and hoping that from now on it’ll be plain sailing and that I don’t find any nasties along the way once I get stuck into the repair work. Who knows, it might even be possible to get it all done in a few weeks, before all the Summer weather has gone. Mind you, if today’s high winds are anything to go by, we shouldn’t hold our breath for too long waiting for it to just to start 😕