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'Lo all! A while back; I posted a challenge: a race in the lovely DeHavilland Comet from London-Cairo. This is my account of my journey thus far:


London Heathrow; 06:50

Well; it doesn't look too good a day to go flying; much less racing. Low clouds with intermittent rain and gusting winds - definitely not weather for breaking speed records in.
Well; too bad so sad - the plane is ready; my support crew is ready; I'm ready - let's go anyway!

Takeoff time is to be at 07:00 sharp; so after running the engines for a bit and getting clearance from the tower; I taxiied her out onto Rwy 27R for takeoff.

Ready for Takeoff!


The takeoff was...interesting.

Great! Cant wait for more!

Hey!  What about walking on the moon?!

And how did you get back so fast?



Just kidding!  Nice shots!

Conditions over southern England were - in a word - miserable.  

It's England,whaddaya expect?

I lost quite a bit of time in the mountains; in an effort to make it up - and have a lot of fun in the process - once the rocks were behind me I turned altitude into airspeed and surfed down the foothills towards Italy.

Sa-weet!  8)