I’ve now finished the video I mentioned in my earlier post and put it up in the Videos section of My Trike. To save time, you can see it if you wish, by clicking on the above link or the following image.
Cavarc airfield is in the Lot and Garonne region some 40 or 50 kilometres south-west of where I live in the Dordogne. After take off, the video shows how flat the land is around the airfield and the early stages of the flight show mainly villages and small towns surrounded by open fields and woodlands. However, as the flight progresses, the scenery gradually changes and you can see how the glaciers, originally, and subsequently the rivers Dordogne and Vézère have carved their way through the hills of the region we now call the Dordogne creating rocky hillsides and cliffs and broad areas of flat river plain where the towns of the region became established and grew to become what they are today.
Following the dismal news contained in my last post, I’m pleased to report that 56NE has now been repaired and, subject to my giving it a really thorough inspection to make sure that nothing else was interfered with, is now ready to go again. Victor unfortunately missed his tour of the area this time, but they’ll be other opportunities in the future. I reported the incident at the local Gendarmerie this morning and now intend to put the incident behind me because if I don’t, it’ll give some kind of victory to whoever caused the damage. However, I will be extremely vigilant with my pre-flight inspections in the future and I also intend to make a new, bigger engine cover that hides all the wiring etc from sight. But if there should be some kind of repeat in the future, I will regrettably have no choice other than to relocate 56NE elsewhere as I can’t afford to build a closed hangar for it at the moment. But what a sad day that would be if it actually came to pass 🙁