pmccarthy

When the 727 arrived in Oz there was a plastic model issued very cheaply as a promotion and I bought one. Less than half the price of an air fix model and very good. 1964 I believe.

I am forced to have a placard on the panel that says “this aircraft is not built to blah blah blah standards” because it is RAAus reg, yet the identical aircraft can be reg GA. So it was built to the same standards. Go figure.

It’s 2.4 amps. It maintains a full charge with the SE operating if I start from a full charge at home. But if I am lazy and run the SE off battery for a couple of local flights, it will not return to full charge on aircraft power.

I charge mine when flying on a 2.4 outlet. While it is on.

Just got the latest RAAus email news and I offer the following edits: "RAAus is proud to announce"...naaa, "pleased to announce" is better. Save pride for important things. "in a Super Petrol amphibian"...naaa, it's Petrel. The newsletter is fine, these are very minor niggles, but why wouldn't a communication like this get a final edit? Or am I too picky?

It’s a fair question. When did these codes come in? I only became aware of them about 15 years ago.

Most of my friends have had good experiences with the JPI.

Nokia is an amazing story. It was a timber and sawmilling town in Finland and the timber was running out. They looked for a new industry and decided to make mobile phones. They built up the world’s leading business at the time. Like most people, I thought it was an Asian company until I went there and they told me the story.

I have been to Nokia, it is a town in Finland.

My friend who had a Bristell says that the transponder came on automatically at a certain airspeed. So if it did not come on, it must be a deliberate switch off or an electrical failure. Perhaps a master switch or isolator bumped off during preflight checks?

I am very sorry I will not make Lockhart due to family commitment. Those folks deserve support and it is a great new location.

A lot of powerlines in Britain are run underground.

Had a lovely flight from Kyneton to Condoblin and back last Sunday, nearly six hours. Picture shows new power pylons creeping across the plain at Bundure.

Between 1946 and 1958 the United States tested 66 nuclear weapons on or near Bikini and Enewetak atolls, which had previously been evacuated. NCI investigators concluded, based on extensive analyses described in their publications, that populations living on any of the other atolls in the Marshall Islands archipelago were exposed to measurable radioactive fallout from 20 of those tests. In this carefully considered analysis, National Cancer Institute (NCI) experts estimate that as much as 1.6% of all cancers among those residents of the Marshall Islands alive between 1948 and 1970 might be attributable to radiation exposures resulting from nuclear testing fallout. Due to uncertainly inherent to these analyses, the authors calculated a 90% confidence interval of 0.4% to 3.6%. Marshall Islands Research Project and Findings - NCI