Articles tagged with 'fuel'

Halfway to Fiji from New Zealand, in the middle of the South Pacific, we became becalmed for 2 days. For those not familiar with the term, it means 'stuck in one spot with no wind'. In days of old, this would be a common occurrence as no boat had an engine and when the winds stopped blowing, forward movement did too (unless you had lots of crew who could row!).

Most of the group will have to stop in Gibraltar on Saturday to refuel and will have some lunch while they are there. It's an 880 nm flight from Paris so it is at the safe maximum range of most of the airplanes we're traveling with. Having to stop means that it'll be about four extra hours on the ground between paperwork, landing fees, refueling, taxis to lunch as well as staggered...