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You've probably noticed a

You've probably noticed a lack of photos here lately. Not sure whether that's due to a lack of time or a lack of good photo ops. At any rate, here's a couple.

They weighed HC-BMO this morning. MAF has been running planes here in Ecuador with larger main tires than the nose wheel. It looks like now they might be going back to the smaller mains, so they were weighing the plane to see how the CG (center of gravity) is affected with the larger tires. The pilots like the larger mains because they get better take-off speed on wet and soft s.

Besides wet and soft s, the pilots have to contend with grass s. Often the grass is long, and when the guys get back to Shell it's easy to see when they've 'mowed the grass' with the prop. You can't see it in this photo, but even the bottom of the struts were stained green.