A further run on Thursday revealed modifications required to the steering for the high-speed desert environment. Parts from the UK have arrived and are being fitted.
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Although untouched by a severe overnight thunderstorm which brought heavy rain to the Al Jafr airbase and surrounding area, yesterday morning the team found advancing flood-water approaching the access track and Desert Pits at a rate of a foot a second. The entire desert site has been evacuated as a precaution until the desert has absorbed the water.
Tracks 17, 16 (part) and 15 have been used so far.
Due to the flooding, the Desert Pits is currently evacuated.
(0800hrs) Today started gloomy, but is now brightening up.
(1700hrs) After a bright day, thunderstorms are now approaching Al Jafr again.
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