I’ve just found an old picture of the larger area. Meet Empakai Crater and its salt lake. The rim towers at 11.000 feet. The airstrip, Engoveroni, lies on the lower left corner…yes that little green strip.
once in a while I take a walk while the clinic goes on and this what we see from the next ridge. As said before, at a slope of 1 to 11, the Vertical Speed Indicator will show 600 ft down on take off. I just love this challenging airstrip, with a lot of respect too.
so now our garden starts to look like an open abstract art gallery.
here is the propeller. Any idea to reuse that except for a lower glass table? Our mechanic wants to make tyre levers out the blades. Maybe we should call our friend Wieke, an art designer in Arusha, and see what she’d do about this.
we had had second thoughts whether to bring the engine back…looking at this crushed assembly…
but with a bit of stripping and cleaning , we went from this to that!
so with a few parts to change, we hope the factory will accept an exchange.
in the meantime another piece of art hanging in the garden. There are some crashed wings a bit further and the latest propeller cone below.
even the table survived the crash and is to be straightened out. The thing was located in the external belly pod that had been ripped off on impact.
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