Yes everyone the time has come, we are going to fly the newly completed Europa to Portugal and stay at our Quinta for 3 - 4 days, weather dependant, then fly back next week YESSS!!
This is what we have been waiting for, the build took Rik almost 5 years and a lot of stress but we now have a beautiful little plane to be proud of and we are so close to realising our dream of flying ourselves to Portugal.
G-CEIW passed all is flight testing with flying colours, we have already done quite a lot of time in her, we flew up to Suffolk a couple of weeks ago to have lunch with Riks Mum which was lovely. A car journey would have taken us over 6 hours but we did it in an hour and forty minutes!
Above with Riks Mum in Suffolk ready for take off back to Devon
This trip is the biggie. We will take off from Dunkeswell in East Devon and fly over the channel to the Cherbourg peninsula. We then make for the west coast of France and fly down to Le Touquet where we will land, stretch our legs an clear customs. Then on to Spain touching down again at San Sebastian to re-fuel. The last leg is the longest from Spain to Viseu in Portugal, a high and often windy airfield 2000 ft above sea level. Our lovely friends will come and pick us up and we should be home in our Quinta in an hour! How great is that? I will be reporting back with a couple of photos I promise. This is all dependent on weather however, so please pray for good clear skies on Thursday.................Thanks
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