| 12 September 2007 -
Escaping to the Island |
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| Having been disappointed at
not being able to go to neither Belle Vue on 8th nor Watchford Farm on 9th
and Martin spending quite some time on Monday 10th at the airfield mending
his door catch, we decided to play hookey and spend the day flying. |
| Arriving early at the
airfield we checked the door catch, along with the usual checks.
Thankfully all was well |
| We arrived on the Island
about lunchtime and took on fuel before securing AY in a parking slot |
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| We were interested to
see the Islander parked and were told it was due to take off. |
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| However tummies rumbling we
set off and walked down through the fields to Shanklin to our usual
lunchtime venue for some welcome food and drink. The airfield was
not available after 6pm because of work on the runway so we could not
complete our usual walk and returned back up the hill, looking quite
enviously at the road train, but discounted it and continued to walk. We
took off and saw an interesting sailing ship in the Solent. |
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| We had experienced a very
sunny day on the Island but the mainland was covered in cloud, so we were
quite glad to be heading for home. |
