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  1. Student Pilot
    There's a mob now trying to sell the tooling, design and equipment to manufacture Callair's. I think it's for the bigger B9, originally built with 720 Lyc, also produced with 985 Pratt. There were lots of A9's in Oz most now used for Tugging. Doubt there is any still on AG. There were a couple of B9's in NZ on super, all wrecked now.
  2. Student Pilot
    Callair? A9 was the first Ag aircraft I worked, that has similarities.
  3. Student Pilot
    Kimberly Skyrider?
  4. Student Pilot
    Hopefully one of these days the internet will improve enough to watch a video.........................................
  5. Student Pilot
    Boing B23, eazy peazy
  6. Student Pilot
    Depends what radial and how you were taught, Bloke who gave me a rundown on R985 in a Beaver told me not to wind it over by hand but if you do be careful. He said using the blade gave it a lot of leverage, if you came up against some oil locking a cylinder it would cause damage if you leaned on it too much by bending a conrod. He said always wind it over on the starter 4 blades being not geared then turn on the mags. Nev, would anybody turn it by hand first? I worked quite a few radials and the only one I did pull through before start by hand was a Drom, very rarely it would blow some oil out the exhaust, it was very hard work compared to hand turning a Pratt. There's a lot of folklore with radials, most of it rubbish.
  7. Student Pilot
    What a pretty aircraft the Sabre is, I was lucky enough to be working out of LaTrobe when Jeff took his for a few laps.
  8. Student Pilot
    It's quite an experience having "Control issues", you don't know how you will handle it when things turn to poo. Trying to think clearly how to fix/overcome the problem/issue while also trying exclude all other thoughts is harder than you might think. SOK Turbo, just show's you human after all
  9. Student Pilot
    Twice to emfarsize (Emphasize) your point
  10. Student Pilot
    I'll go with my first instincts and say a Farman of some sort, not Longhorn or Shorthorn but F40. As usual a lot of Aircraft were copied by a few nations with minor variations. I have an old photo round somewhere with a Shorthorn in Melbourne I think. It is signed by Richard Graham Carey and titled "The oldest aircraft in Australia flown by the oldest pilot in Australia" Found this on Wiki
  11. Student Pilot
    I originally thought Shorthorn but this has a single fin. Look at the size of that prop!
  12. Student Pilot
    Many years ago there was an autogyro parked at Essendon, was there for years. I think it was a Mcculloch? Had stub wings, pusher engine and a powered rotorhead for windup I recon. There was an odd one used for mustering.
  13. Student Pilot
    My memory must be going, I remember full reporting being mandatory. Having a sartime was part of the plan and if you were at place with a flight service the likes of Coffs, Bankstown or Kununurra you submitted a plan for full reporting with a sartime, otherwise you had to ring a plan in.That was for a private flight as well as commercial. Full reporting was VHF if coverage or HF remote areas. Compared to normal life I wonder why aviation was so controlling. There weren't many accidents nor many fatalities compared to something like farming or even just driving generally in Australia. In 1969 the road toll was 3,500 and yet you could drive without plans or schedules. On country roads people have been running off the road and not been found for days. Why the difference with aviation?
  14. Student Pilot
    The pain was bad reception with HF, used to work fairly late and the HF used to go all squiggly. Back in the olden days full reporting was mandatory, changed in the early 80's to voluntary?
  15. Student Pilot
    Your kidding? What a pain it was, especially in remote areas with HF.
  16. Student Pilot
    You could take out the panel and mount something like an early Pacer one there, they have rounded edges and a lot lower. I doubt there'd be any paperwork needed because it was an earlier Piper panel, factory fit. Still enough room for ASI, ALT, T+B, Tacho and combination oil pressure/oil temp. Those along with a bouncy mag compass on the dash and your set. Colt is a very appealing aircraft, basic flying at it's best. We had a Tri, was a lovely little machine.
  17. Student Pilot
    Before GPS days I never used whiz wheels much, used to do a ground speed check if things didn't look quite right. Maps, either an out of date WAC of NRMA road map were good. The only time it got hard is bad weather.
  18. Student Pilot
    Just what Australia needs, another billion dollar defence project. Just imagine if half of the joint strike fighter and the sub contracts was spent on public health and education, what it would do for Australia as a nation.
  19. Student Pilot
    When are they talking passing privacy legislation with this app?
  20. Student Pilot
    :puzzled::puzzled: Where do you look? Hooly dooly that's busy.
  21. Student Pilot
    People would have to use maps instead of GPS, the trauma
  22. Student Pilot
    If fitted I used to do the same, you could usually get an ABC channel Never used for navigation
  23. Student Pilot
    David came into AG when Beavers were established as Ag machines, his early flying was in Callair's at Kununurra on cotton when it was tried first up there. While David is a very experienced pilot he might be the highest time Australian Beaver pilot still alive The likes of Doc Lynch/Kenny Beardon/Peter wood (Peter still going as far as I know) were flying well before David started flying Beavers. I forgot he has a Tiger Moth as well to add to the list.
  24. Student Pilot
    Working in AG I have only had maybe 3 permanent jobs in 40 years flying, they don't last long due to vagaries of weather and commodity prices. The last 10 years have been regular summer work on fires. I have friends that flew airlines and are now out of work, they are stressed. I usually go through that twice a year, once after fire season then after whatever (If I get work) work I can get in the winter here or Northern hemisphere summer.
  25. Student Pilot
    A long trail https://www.thoughtco.com/donald-trump-business-bankruptcies-4152019
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