The Postal Rule

It is an idiosyncratic but nonetheless well established concept in UK contract law that the contract is joined once the letter is posted.

I let the envelope slip into the letterbox this afternoon and the money for the deposit was transferred across the Internet soon after.

The broker (who I like) called me and told me that it had been received.  I was surprised to get his call but I guess from his point of view there is no deal until the money is in place.  The moment he saw those figures on his bank statement he knew it was now a goer. He must deal with a high percentage of dreamers.  I have been a dreamer for nearly 20 years.

Now Spaniel and I are custodians of GB-SUE II.  She is not called GB-SUE II but that's how I think of her.

She's not called Dignity either but isn't she pretty?

Back to The Beginning

This is what happens when you sell a serious aircraft to someone who doesn't understand what serious means...

We loved this lady.  She took us all over Europe - riding the airways at FL100 and keeping us safe on our journeys.

She took us over the Alps at 11,000ft, and down the French Riveria at 400ft.

She took us up into Courchevel, and down into LEAP. 

Five of us would throw our luggage into the back of her, fire up her 9-litre engine, and fly her at 130kts half across the continent to places we would not otherwise have gone and to which we have never returned.

(Only one of us was routinely sick.)

She was a Cessna 206 and we don't need to ask a Bush Pilot - we know she was a fantastic aircraft and we adored her...

The day came when we had to sell her.  The decision was made - the documents signed, and the cheque banked.  We had said our goodbyes to her, waved her off and left her in the safe hands of her new owner...

This was a rough and rude shock two weeks later. It was hard not to cry a little over a few chunks of alloy and steel.  No-one was injured, but she was never going to fly again.

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Two years later - and we were introduced today to a new GB-SUE:

Isn't she pretty?

Where will she take us?  (I guess the French Alps is probably out)