Thanks Charlie. I'm slowly catching up with your FB posts!
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ATW Retro-blog: 1997-05-30 (Day#11)
Sheremetyevo (RU) – Kazan (UWKD – RU)
415nm; 3h50; Purchase (833) / Cowan (962)
Kazan (RU) – Kazan-2 (uncoded – RU) – Kazan (RU)
26nm; 0h20; Cowan (962) / Hughes (833)
Usual admin delays at Sheremetyevo, plus negotiation of a US$2,000 charge for spilling Avjet on the tarmac! Reduced to US$80 after a strong rebuttal by Bill Purchase, blaming it on inefficient fueling facilities.
Once on their way, 120kts GS indicated on the very capable GNS 250 [still works to this day!] as the flight traversed a land of fertile cultivated fields. On arrival Kazan, no sign of the promised Avgas, but it was available at Kazan-2, just 13 nm away, so a round-trip was made to uplift fuel.
Only a Mars bar for lunch, so by the end of the day a dinner of salad and chicken, once checked in to the hotel, was welcome.
Dave Gill, Tony Cowan and Ced Hughes (rightmost, overseeing) put ‘Lada Juice’ into 833’s aux tank.
An inquisitive crowd at Kazan
Day 11: UUEE-UKWD-Kazan 2-UKWD 441 nm, 4.17 hrs, GS 106 kts. Cumulative 2212 nm, 23.67 hrs, Average GS 93 kts
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