Savage BARN FIND IN UGANDA Part 2
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by :
C raig L ang
and
T yron G ibbs
After my first journey to Uganda to examine the long neglected Savage Classic in mid-November 2019, Tyron and I boarded a Kenya Airways flight via Nairobi to Entebbe, from where we planned to fly the plane that had been sitting in an open hangar for nearly five years, back to SA.
THE FLIGHT HOME - BY: CRAIG LANG
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E had to charm our way past the security people at OR Tambo airport, as we had a large box with two new tyres, tubes, a fire extinguisher, tools and a whole bunch of other small spare parts for the aircraft, including two 20L fuel bladders (water bottles!). The fire extinguisher was confiscated, but we managed to convince the folks at the Kenya Airways counter to allow us to take the tyres through, as they were not inflated, and therefore not a risk. Soon we were comfortably settled in the Dreamliner, and en-route to Entebbe. The 787 Kenya Airways flight via Nairobi to Entebbe took us 5 hours. The trip back would take 30! In our hand luggage we carried a Meglin sabre propeller and hub, and were asked on a few occasions when the prop went through the scanners if these were machetes we were carrying….patience and smiles eventually allowed us to charm our way through, and we arrived that evening at Entebbe, Uganda, where we were met by the hotel’s taxi driver. He took us via back roads to the hotel, rather than take the brand-new freeway, where apparently highway robbery at night is a common occurrence. This made us feel quite at home! The Mak-Queen hotel is a stone’s throw from the Kajjansi airfield, and we had an early start, working our way to the airfield between dozens of scooters and Uganda’s famous Ankole cattle with their massive horns. First on the agenda was to replace the tyres and the propeller, as I was not happy with either. Tyron set about the tyres, while I removed the old prop, and assembled the new Meglin two-blade. The guys at
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Our routing from Uganda to Eva’s Field.
