On Saturday Geoff Sim departed for Wollongong in his Lancair, and I was just loading up the Jabiru to go to Cowra when I discovered I had a flat tyre. I inflated the tyre, and it seemed to be staying up OK, but I decided not to fly as I had some other maintenance jobs to do on the Jabiru. I normal aviation fashion, nothing went according to plan, and it was Sunday night before I had finished and had the aircraft ready to fly again.
The weather at the weekend was very ordinary. A few souls came out on Saturday but only Ray Tilley flew (along with Garry in the tug). Todd Clark gave me some lessons in extracting corroded in bolts. The contractors departed after finishing their part of erecting the new hangars. Now we are waiting for another lot to arrive to fit the doors. The new hangars certainly are BIG. On Sunday John Hoye helped me fit the new bushes to the nose leg of the Jabiru - as with everything they needed modification. It started raining about mid afternoon, and proceeded to pour all afternoon and evening, and most of the night.
However the day dawned blue and sunny again on Monday morning, and by lunchtime the cumulus looked good, but inclined to overdevelop. I took the Jabiru for a test fly circuit. Some gliding friends called in and I showed them around and gave them lunch - hot bread.
We are hoping to get the Callair back from Inverell this week, but then it has to go to PG Aviation in Cowra - hopefully not for too long - to have the paperwork for the electrical system properly sorted out.
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