Singing the Billing Blues
Back home to Mumbai and Kamshet but our thoughts keep going back to Bir Billing. We miss the daily flying fix, the friends we made, the general excitement and more. Doc and Piku are…
Our last flying day at Billing
Then the last flying day dawned and after two days of staying within familiar surroundings I was focused and ready to head out again but this time keeping the rules of the game in the…
A spate of good weather
The next 5 days went off like clock work – breakfast at 9, head out to the site by 10, wait for the vultures and the wind dummies to takeoff, launch, milk the house…
A dramatic change in the weather
I woke up at 6 am and rushed up to the terrace to find big clouds gathering fast over the east. The sun peeped out for a short while only to be enveloped by…
Bad Weather Plans
Hiren and Dwane arrive and our world becomes ‘Animal Planet’ Hiren and Dwane arrived in Bir last evening. They will stay on with me for the next 11 days but Ravi and the rest of…