37:27.6N 122:06.8W
With
regular contacts by telephone and
by e-mail
with David Johnston, I was constantly kept updated of all the
work in process. As per the master plan of this project, David informed me in early October that HB-PON
would be ready for the
10-hour engine break-in,
the second week of November.
Olivier,
my co-pilot and I returned back
to San
Francisco early in the second week of November and then headed
straight down to Tulare to take
delivery of my freshly
inspected and upgraded Comanche
with the shining overhauled
power plant and its new
"Titan"
cylinders.

Arriving At San Francisco International Airport, I discovered that
my Live Raft, which I had taken from home had been stolen from
my baggage.
What an unpleasant discovery!
With strict
instructions from David Johnston on how to
break-in the overhauled engine for the
next 10 hours,
Olivier and I spent the next few days racing up and down the
central valley
at low altitude and different
defined
power
settings, whenever the autumn fog
disappeared.
The journey back home
The flight back home
would be to take
the southern route. While repeatedly watching the
Weather channel and
CNN, it became more and more evident to us, that the
initially planned route
of our
return flight to
Europe between
Tulare
and straight to Florida was not at all feasible.
Deep winter conditions with heavy snowfall
everywhere had settled
in across New Mexico and the whole state of Texas,
ranging down as far as northern Mexico.
As we needed to
get going with our trip, there was no other solution other than
circumvent the bad weather under
all circumstances.
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