Well after yesterday's test flight to Farnborough, been delayed a bit.
My flight Engineer "Oily" Ollie Van Der Merwe spent a while digging around hangers there looking for better lamps for our landing lights. Some techno babble about the one's fitted not being DX10/DX11 specification. He managed to find some "Shock-something" lamps, and they are really good. Should light things up around us if needed.
Then when we got back to EGUN, Lady Jane Goldrich (daughter of my sponsor Sir Nicholas Goldrich), and Oily were being rather secretive about something, off in a huddle whispering, and smiling silently if I approached them. Eventually they came out with it. Seems Lady Jane, who is along for the ride as part of the deal with her father, to make a motion-picture documentary (I suspect more to keep her father in the loop on how his money is being spent), had convinced Oily to fit a camera to the belly of the DC-3. Now on my pre-flight yesterday I did not notice any bulky movie camera hanging out there, but threw a fit about the added weight and drag of those "things". Lady Jane muttered something about me being "stuck in the past", and pointed back to the belly of the plane. Some little nifty device called a "Go something Professional" all wired in with an electronic Gimbal and all. Futuristic lass this - looks like she's set for a bright future! So should get some nice "film" of the trip, unless her "recorders" interfere with the radios and cause me to start stuttering and muttering.
So all set to go now, and should be off within the hour, to LIRU, (that is as soon as Lady Jane and her father have finished their BBC interviews).
Rob
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