Once again I am in the beautiful, busy city of Cambridge in England for a technical meeting with a whole raft of people working on the Silent Aircraft Initiative. I've never been much of a fan of traveling alone, and this is my first trip alone since the last time I was here back in June 2005.
The flight over was fun - it's always fun being pampered in business class - especially on the incomparable British Airways. This time around I had a rear facing window seat, which allowed me to snap a few pictures of Mt. Rainier to the south after we took off. Here's one:
Mt Rainier is that fuzzy dark grey blob to the left in the layer just under the pink.
Anyway, it was also the most perfect way to see the wing of the 747 do its thing.
An added bonus of this trip is that I get to meet Maggi Dawn again. If everything works out OK, we're having lunch today. Then this evening it's off to dinner at Magdalene College, followed by the all day meeting on Friday at, of all places, Robinson College, which is where Maggi hangs her professional hat.
I'm hoping to get to The Imperial War Museum at Duxford again, as their fantastic remodel of their old main hangar, "Airspace", is now open, although not totally complete. I may get there today or possibly Saturday on the way back to Heathrow.
