Very windy

We’ve had the most atrocious weather over the last day or so – lashing rain and very high winds with gusts up to 60 or 70 mph in places. This is something we don’t see that often and just my luck to have it come along just after I’ve put covers on MYRO for the first time. I hoped they would do their job but I was more worried about them being lifted and then damaged by the wind before I’ve had a chance to get the bungee cords set to the correct tension. So as we have yet more extreme weather on the way, I decided to nip down to Linton this lunch time to see how things were going.

Things were not half as bad as I’d feared because this was the sight that greeted me as I walked down the taxiway.

This may not be the sternest test that the covers will have to undergo, but so far they are doing pretty well. They are flapping around a bit at the tips of the wings which I want to modify as soon as I can in the same way that I did the tail horizontal stabiliser cover, so I hope that they will at least see this current blowy spell through without damage until I can do that work. Other than that they have stood up to the winds pretty well and apart from increasing the bungee cord tension, there’s not much else to do. Apart from make covers for the pod and windscreen and the tail fin that is.

I took these other shots before I left.

I’m glad I went down because with the wind gusting so much, all of the tie-down ropes had been loosened and I was able to put them all back under tension as well, to stop any movement in MYRO. Hopefully that will now see MYRO through. We have even more high winds to come, but with luck they will affect the north of the country more than the south. However, we’ll just have to wait and see and keep fingers crossed in the meantime until this spell of weather blows itself out.