he was mortified that he was even there but something was upsetting him , hha had contacted him , telling him that the lady s was ready for collection - even before fred had started on her journey of discovery in the cockpit , john had arranged for a hercules to transport her lady s , not fred - to dorset , they had the specialists available there to repair her - but when he had informed teddy , and suggested that he send a crew to prepare it so that i could fly it back , he had been most emphatic that he was to do no such thing , it was the start of the workup to the new aerobatic season and he needed every mechanic to be available to work on his aircraft , that machine would just have to wait .