1812 PREPARATIONS
An enormous amount of intensive preparation was carried out.
First at Teston:
Here, cut this off, would you?
.......and I'll join in up here ......somewhere... or should it be here? - or here?
Teston Bridge from the air
Another Aerial shot of Teston.
This was taken during one of our public rehearsals.
We invited a lot of people to come along so that we could rigorously evaluate the Audio System, Crowd Control and the Safety Arrangements.
Then in Roy's field :
(where, despite stringent security, some rumours got out)
All this seems neat enough - but should we consider a simpler version ?
No, it looks just right ... Gittish. Perfect.
This is the MK II Firing board, MK I was a complete failure.
The Gits went Off Prematurely
The Mark I Igniter proved to be 100% reliable.
That's more than can be said for the Maestro
Just got to put the balloons on now.
That Control Centre doesn't look rainproof somehow.
Superb aerial shot showing that we chose the better of the two fields for our practice