Hello folks
I've been busy lately and have just caught up with the always interesting posts, and I've something else in the pipeline. Meanwhile, to lower the tone again, there were times I would have been very happy to have an Elsan. Such as the flight from San Sebastien to Faro when we encountered a stronger headwind than forecast.
Fuel was no problem for the Arrow but it became one for me. It had been very hot, I had drunk plenty as recommended, and after three hours the situation had become as desperate as it had been in the Tiger Moth a decade before. Fortunately lunch had come in a plastic bag, and the Arrow has a small direct-vision opening window ... you get the picture.
With apologies to the good folk of a tiny village five miles west of Oviedo.
The rain in Spain falls mainly from the plane. 