{"id":8200,"date":"2019-06-10T13:26:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T13:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/?p=8200"},"modified":"2023-04-06T16:54:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:54:51","slug":"round-the-world-atlantic-day-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katamarino.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/06\/10\/round-the-world-atlantic-day-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Round the World – Atlantic Day 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Laddingford, England to Rotterdam, Netherlands<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The time for returning to work was drawing painfully near. Before parking up the airplane for a month, it was important to take care of some routine maintenance. I organised, through the very helpful Liz of the Flyer Forum, to take the aircraft the 8 miles over to Headcorn and meet “Big Jon”, who had very kindly volunteered to give up a few hours of his holiday weekend to help me out. I had all the tools and materials I needed to change the oil and filter, as well as service the spark plugs, with the exception of a sand-blaster for cleaning the plugs. Not very practical to carry one of those with me! <\/p>\n\n\n

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At Headcorn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The flight from Laddingford was, of course, over very quickly. Headcorn is a beautiful grass airfield that’s very welcoming to the public; on a sunny holiday like today, the grass parking area was full of families picnicking and watching airplanes come and go. The radio operator had been forewarned of my arrival and gave me directions straight to the maintenance hangar; I parked on the grass outside and Jon met me as I shut down the engine. We jumped straight in and soon had the cowls off, the oil drained, and the spark plugs pulled. Everything looked great, so we took care of the work, ran up the engine to double check everything, and then got the cowls back in place. <\/p>\n\n\n