Hi! David/Sue.
Congratulations. On completion of the building ordeal now start to enjoy the
flying. David, if you have 3kg aft ballast you could invest in my tail plane
torque tube drive clamp mod. instead! I'm given to understand the PFA will
soon clear it subject to weight and balance verification on any specific
aircraft it is fitted.
Just back from Bryan Allsops Tour de France! Deauville,(a spare local trip
to Jersey (EGJJ) also, La Rochelle, to Carcassonne with Ryanair for company!
(the only leg with good WX!),continuing to Montpellier where the rest of the
group felt it best to return the way we had arrived. We then spent two days
to get up the Rhone Valley (Not above 1500 ft !!! where a transit van passed
us with 125kts on the AIS and only 65 on the GPS !!!)A power station near
Montellimar pumps lots of steam out of it's cooling towers to add to the WX
via the "Mistralle wind" down the valley, which is designed to hide all the
cable crossings and masts ! Just for interested parties, there is a Notam
out for a "No FLY ZONE" over Lyon since Sept 11th. Which necessitates being
"on frequency and requesting permision " to overfly the Airfield and to the
East of the valley. Then a further two nights grounded due to WX before exit
to the north from the valley. Great Restauraunt de L'Aerodrome at
Chalon-sur-Saone (LFLH) (Harvey's , Kangaroo and home made chips and two
fried eggs on top for evening meal after a three course lunch, didn't do the
MTOW much good !!!! they really are "switched on " for presentation and
hospitality, but their web page is http://www.harveys-chalon-aerodrome.com )
B&B Motel 5 minute walk over the motorway bridge.)
Then taking off to "see how the WX looked to the North" and just sneeking
over the top via Dijon to Le Touquet dropping Ivor off at Biggin and back to
Wickenby for 1900 hours with not a bloody cloud in sight from Stanstead ATZ
to Wickenby!
Many thanks to Bryan for being the instigator of the trip and also for
Ivor's invaluable input
to make my continental flights achievable.
Best regards.
Bob Harrison G-PTAG
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From: forum-owner@europaclub.org.uk
Subject: Fw: First flight G-XSDJ, kit 402
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From: david joyce
Subject: First flight G-XSDJ, kit 402
Delta Juliet took to the skies yesterday between storms at Kemble in the
incomparable hands of Peter Jeffers, with all systems go and an enormous
grin on the face of the observer in the second flight.It really does make
all the hard work with the sanding seem a trivial matter! APS weight 839 lbs
( which included 3lbs lead in tail to give desired C of G posn of 59"), 914
engine, battery in engine compartment and Woodcomp/Kremen Constant speed
prop.
My thanks to Peter, to the Europa team, to Roger Targett for
sympathetic inspecting and expert gel coating, and to the support team of my
wife Su and Paddy Clarke. David Joyce
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