Time to fly

All the lessons we had learnt from the loch tests were incorporated into the other five WIMBOs, being built down in Sussex, so it was finally time to finish and crate them for loading onto the icebreaker in Seattle, courtesy of our colleagues at the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington. I loaded up the van and drove down to Heathfield with all the parts that had been Scottish-made, and gave everything a final check-over before we filled a cargo plane with 15 cubic metres of science stuff, yikes.