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<\/p>\nI was going to take Victor as passenger today in 56NE for a flight to view the local area and we met up at the airfield while I was removing the aircraft’s covers before doing a re-flight inspection. Next thing he drew my attention to something he’d found while I was just folding the last wing cover. I was stunned to see that since I’d parked the aircraft on Sunday, someone had come along with a knife and severed all of the four wires connected to the voltage regulator\/rectifier.<\/p>\n
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We didn’t go flying, of course, but I was stunned that someone could have done something like this, and to an aircraft of all things. Cutting the wires in this way would not have prevented the engine from starting but would have stopped it from charging the battery and would almost certainly have caused an engine failure during flight if we had not noticed and just taken off. On the way home, I dropped in to show Christian, the airfield’s owner, and he said that to his knowledge it was the first time anything like this had happened at the airfield. He also said that as it was so serious, I should inform the local police tomorrow, as today was a holiday here in France.<\/p>\n
I don’t know whether this was just a random act or was directed at me personally but I’ve just phoned Regis to warn him to check his aircraft carefully before he next flies it, just in case. I’m still absolutely gob-smacked while I type this \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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