But this allowed a trip to the field to put LC back in the hangar, and hopefully do some flying. There was a Mistrale blowing down the Rhone valley, so it would depend on how far across the southern French coast it had spread.
So we got to the field and unpacked LC from the trailer:
At 39* in the shade, it was hot work. Suzy did her bit by sorting out food and drink - any of you who used to come to Brack will remember her constant supply of burgers, tea etc!
It was blowing quite strongly - our French friends were all barbequeing and drinking Pastisse and Whisky (although not together of course), which didn't bode well for flying. None of them planned to fly again that day, but they said there might be a chance in the evening if the wind dropped.
I got Elsi ready as I could, but left the final rigging to see if the opportunity arose later. It didn't unfortumately. Conscious of having to get her into the hangar and de-rigged, at 7.30pm I decided it was crunch-point and derigged.
Nonetheless we had a lovely day - one of the nice things about this airfield is that it's not too crowded - see piccy below! Anyway, catch you next time.
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