The newly fabricated exhaust arrived late last week – Swiftair made a great job of it; building it from scratch ( need to get a photo up here of it ) so we’re now just waiting for our gangpressed engineer, Andy, to put it all back together and do the remaining testing for the permit renewal. It’s great we have Andy and he’s a busy chap, but I can’t help feeling frustrated and impatient to get JT back flying again and it’s somehow even more frustrating when that is in anothers hands. We need someone who knows what they’re doing, however, to complete the remaining items and fingers crossed, she’ll be flying again sometime this month ( he says with usual misguided optimism ) – she’s spent four months in the hangar now and she needs to get flying again.

A lot has been done though, in that time and between this and the last permit renwal, most major and many minor items have been sorted so from here, we’re all hoping that there will be plenty of trouble free flying ahead. Watch this space!