First Arrivals.

'OUR GIRL' ON THE WAY. (At last).

Our first container has arrived and passed through Customs in Sydney. Containing the two engines, along with huge range of spare parts, it should arrive on location sometime through this coming week beginning 14th October for further work to begin.

The flat bed with the PBY tail assy., has run into a few problems with Quarantine. Quite a lot of leaf and other 'vegetable' matter was located in nooks & crannies by x-ray. None of these areas are accessible via removal of existing inspection panels and may mean that 'new' panels will have to be cut, or the assy. de-skinned! This tail assy. was infested with a huge colony of bees in San Juan, which were removed with some trouble, and this is possibly a remaining result of this. The tail of the PBY was also deeply entwined into the local shrubbery on the airport apron in San Juan, apparently for quite some time, so this is evidently the result of these situations.

Customs and Quarantine in Sydney have been more than helpful and sympathetic to the situation, and an attempt will be made within the next few days to extricate the mess to their satisfaction, without (hopefully) having to de-skin the tail.

Tail & rudder assy. removed in San Juan

Engines & rudder finally on the road to their new home.