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Old 4th Jun 2016, 09:12
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Me, a Heron, a very rainy day. Surely, that can't be water in the bottom of my Horizon . . . can it?!?!?

Yes. But, the aircraft had just been washed with something bubbly. Within ten minutes, the foam had reached 15% of the glass. When would it touch the gyro, with all its little buckets spinning so furiously?

Wow! That's pretty.

What did I learn from all this?

The vacuum replacement air came though a filter just at the back of the Horizon. It was bronze and about as much use at keeping out water as Mary O'Riely's breast was in a fight.

I also learned that when the gyro toppled, the foam filled the glass in a nano-second. Oh,a and that I can fly reasonably well on an old turn and slip indicator.
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