Friday, August 23, 2013

Refueling Bush Aircraft




Brenda and I wanted to see the Kalahari desert, so naturally we contacted our Botswana expert missionary friends.  

“We’re taking a load of aviation fuel to Kang tomorrow, want to go?”   They asked.

“Do we?, Of course!”

It took a little while to get 385 gallons (2500 lbs) of Avgas picked up it and loaded, so we were a bit late getting started.  This is slightly more serious than it sounds,  The problem is that it can be dangerous to drive at night in Botswana.  Animals are dangerous. Not elephants, cape buffalo, and lions, leopards and hyenas, but horses, donkeys, cattle and goats.

At any rate, we made it to Kang without major mishap.   The next morning we wrestled the barrels off the trailer and into the shed.  We took a short break and came back to find the aircraft ready for fueling.



There was a pilot, a photographer, a survey guy, and a Botswana official there.  Among the 6 of us we figured out how to get the gasoline out of the barrels and into the plane.  That was fortuitous in that they had a 1400 -1700 mission to fly that afternoon.

Everybody needs fuel.  We try to fuel up on materialism, on knowledge, on fame.  Nothing fuels us.  We need G^d indwelling us to fill that void.  Only that is truly filling.



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