Good Afternoon fellow followers from a very hot and stuffy Delhi in India. We’ve had a pretty relaxed journey since my last update in The Seychelles, and for the next large part of the trip until we get to Bangkok which means that our water rescue equipment and raft can now be off-hired, this does mean that we’ve got a little more space to move and to carry a few more supplies.

All our tech is working extremely well and the last visit from the 747-8F support aircraft at Karachi brought us new parts and tooling along with fresh consumables to last us until we get to Australia where we’ll hand the aircraft to the local engineers for an overhaul, during the support update we had the engines removed and flown back to the UK and the spares was brought to us when the 747 returned. The logistics is something that in the future I will have to look closer at – by deploying a number of engineering pods along the route. Back to the Aircraft the Shrike is still proving itself highly capable and efficient with flights over 4 hours and cruising around 15,000ft it has not put a single step wrong in any way.

I’m currently fending off a cold whilst my engineer spends time with his family and will fly out to meet us soon, the hotel is a quiet retreat located about 55min outside of Delhi meaning I’ve got a very interesting trip back to the airport, but India is an absolute culture shock if you’ve never been before.

Our next flight takes us eastward and out of India to the country of Nepal and into Kathmandu, in the foothills of the Himalayas.