ATW Retro-blog: 1997-06-08 (Day#20)
A planned non-flying day – dealing with domestic chores and resting. The hotel had functioning showers, though the water was deep brown and smelly!
Yuri had got better knowledge of where fuel for the Chipmunks was likely to be available and this necessitated re-planning, taking a more Northerly course towards the Bering Strait.
Already at 62° N, the nights remained bright and the day-time temperature was now in the mid 30s C.
More TV interviews.
[Meanwhile, in real-time, off to the RAFM to do some aeronautical research with Paul Greenand Chris Fopp(and with WP962).]
A statue of Comrade Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, best known simply as ‘Lenin’, in the main square of Yakutsk.
A somewhat dilapidated log building, yet still characterful and even in part ornate, sits on the permafrost.
The route as re-planned, from Yakutsk (UEEE) to Providenya Bay (UHMD). Inset: the back-track to Magan for fuel.
