Why I probably won’t be flying for a while.

Clue: It is not for any fear of catching COVID-19

No-one can have missed the obvious immediate effects on the Aerospace industry throughout most of the world, due to necessary COVID-19 response measures.

The first glimpse of this for us on the UK South Coast, was the demise of Flybe, the main company flying between Scotland and the South Coast, for the past few years.

As soon as coronavirus measures were first mentioned, they put their hands up in the air, instead of their planes, and went bust.

For me, this came as quite a shock, as only months earlier, I was commuting via Flybe, weekly to my Scottish homeland, to do my usual work, as a consulting Engineer, for a major Aerospace company.

With the collapse of Flybe came the realisation that commuting to Scotland was no longer a possibility for me.

Subsequently, a very large proportion of all commercial aircraft have been grounded, almost worldwide, for months.

This week, I undertook the task of putting my car back on the road again, after it too was garaged indoors, unmoving, for around two months.

Cars, especially the more complex examples, don’t take kindly to being neglected. It came as no surprise that I had to remove and recharge the battery, refitting the next day, also re-inflating all of the tyres, before I could drive it off.