nomadpete

That unfortunate pilot. Sitting out in the weather, navigating with a paper chart on his lap. And so far back that he must have landed by braille. The view whilst taxying... well there isn't one. Gotta admire the skill of those pilots!

Goes around the horizontal stab.... eventually.

A very sad outcome. Condolences to family and friends.

Here's one for you....

I am so glad there are 15 reasons! After all the girls could only find 10 reasons why a cucumber is better than a man.

Fire work takes a special skillset. Low level work (treetops), precision drops, localised crazy wind shifts.... must be exhausting work. Pic of heli work on a fireground I attended last summer. We were often looking down on the choppers! They could drop accurately within metres of us.

I was sailing past Margate, watching the flying circus. Very impressive piloting. There were times when four aircraft were skimming the water, loading on the run. Spray everywhere. Not sure but I heard that they drop about 1200kg at a time. The rate of climb was not looking impressive with a load.

There is still one of these remaining on the Darling Downs. Built in 1931 (?) And flown by several generations of the same family.

When I replaced my stator assembly, it was clearly labelled 'Ducati'. No idea which ducati, though.

The wiring loom was premade. It already has labels on the wires, but since it was premade for a different aircraft, mods must be made to suit a different layout, and some different items. It is messy at the moment, but eventually will be neat and secure.

Geoff, switchyard back EMF involves spikes several orders of magnitude greater than any tiddly little 12volt solenoids or starter motors. When a switchyard circuit breaker trips there may be 330,000 volts and thousands of amps at play. Nevertheless we should be protecting our fragile and personally expensive electronics on our aircraft. Especially when it is so simple to do.

PS Do they still fit a dkhead diode across the dc supply inside radios? In the old days of CB radio, they were common, and would at least suppress the negative going spikes.

Very nice CRO pics. Have you looked at the current associated with those spikes? Personally, although I love protection diodes or TVS, I would be tempted to wire a fusible link or fuse in series with it - although failures are rare, the consequence of a short suddenly occurring across your solenoid would be unpleasant. (Such addition would have to be monitored)

So that's why we can't get good wine here any more. We send it away for all youse foreigners to enjoy.