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Single surface wings (hang gliders)

Now it's temperatures rising, global warming. Alarmist bs?

I pulled into the crowded parking lot at the local shopping centre and rolled down the car windows to make sure my Labrador Retriever pup had fresh air. She was stretched full-out on the back seat and I wanted to impress upon her that she must remain there. I walked to the kerb backward, pointing my finger at the car and saying emphatically, "Now you stay. Do you hear me?" "Stay! Stay!"

The driver of a nearby car, a pretty young blonde, gave me a strange look and said, "Why don't you just put the handbrake on ?"

The pilot also a keen stunt motorcyclist was just practicing some of his moves for the next show!

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Looks like the iphone 6 has finally caught up with the best android offerings. The technology seesaw will keep on rocking. Be interesting to see if the iwatch is a flash in the pan or not. It really is a battle of proprietary vs Open.

Personally I see the open scene becoming more innovative in the long run. Android continues to dominate market share with more than 60% & rising. In China Android is huge with the thousands of cheap devices appealing to the masses that do 95% of what an Apple device does for 10% of the cost.

be good if Ozrunways is available on android... I had it on ipad but work related requirements dictated that I had to look at Samsung or similar.. Also be aware that if you are going to use a EFB, CASA has a screen size requirement..

OzRunways is more functional with a 3G connection and 32GB RAM. You could probably get away with 16GB if it was to do nothing other than OzRunways.

The Nexus has reputedly a better hi res screen than the iPad but it would be hard to tell for most users. Android 5 reported to be called Lemon Meringue Pie is supposedly being released by the end of the year and the Nexus range may be being replaced by something un-named to date but with code names like Flounder & Shamu. Moores Law sill rules.

I bought a cheap 7" Android Tablet for $14o for the purposes of backup & to see if it was any good. It has a dual core 1.5 Ghz CPU, 1 Gb of DDR3 RAM, 8Gb storage, 16 Gb SD card, WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet & an independent GPS, multipoint IPS screen with 1064x768 resolution & it came with a keyboard/case, car & mains chargers, ethernet, OTG, USB & HDMI cables. It runs Android 4.2 Jellybean.

I have installed Quickoffice so I can create word, excel & ppt & pdf documents, google drive & photos for backups & a heap of other apps including navigation all free. To date it has been faultless & I am going to give either Ozrunways or EasyVFR a go when I get my aircraft in the air. 7" is about as big as you can go if you want the screen in front of you & able to fit on the panel. My panel has a central position & the tablet fits perfectly there in portrait orientation.

The Aldi one looks good & if the quality is like most other Aldi stuff it a should be OK.

Make sure that whatever you get has an independent GPS & not A-GPS which relies to a large extent on triangualtion of cell towers to provide accurate position data.

Drill sharpeners are pretty much a waste of time in my experience but it does take a lot of practice to get right. All you need is a bench grinder with a fine grit stone wheel and 2 hex nuts. Get a bunch of old drills to practice with. The angle between the 2 nuts when placed together on the bench is the correct angle for most drill bits when putting the drill tip between the 2 nuts. Once you have perfected this angle then the angle of the cutting edge relative to the drill twist groove is how much cut you will get. Too little and it wont cut & too much will blunt it quickly especially if the material is hard steel.

There is an old bloke I know, a retired fitter/turner who can just about sharpen them blindfold and to perfection. I sharpen my own but if I want them perfect I give them to him.

On Sunday the 31st Grafton Aero Club held the second annual Wings and Wheels open day at South Grafton Aerodrome, this time with support from Clarence Valley Council. After the wild weather on Tuesday and Wednesday with 90mm of rain we ended up with perfect weather, sunny, light winds and 25 degrees.

The cars began arriving from about 8:30am with aircraft constantly coming and going throughout the day.

Statistics from the day

Approximately 1000 people in attendance throughout the day

300 morning teas were supplied.

400 sausages & 100 steaks sold plus 100 ham rolls & countless cold drinks

Aircraft 36 both GA & RA

Gyros 4

Model Aircraft (about 20)

Motorbikes 11

Vintage cars 24

Classic, sports and touring cars 28

Stationary engines 6

Race cars 5

Vintage caravan 1

Vintage boat 1

Vintage tractor 1

A few photos follow

Funny, that was obvious this morning but last night I could not work out what the word should have been even though O is next to P on the qwerty keyboard. Too many beers or too many years or both probably.

They generally won't turn up if there is NO grass. i.e all bitumen or hard clay. Mowing close is an attractant as they like the new growth. It is tender and sweet. We have tried all sorts of things but keeping a good lookout & making lots of noise, buzzing the strip & having a large area either side of the strip clear so they can be detected are all good things to do. Fences don't seem to work unless they are huge and you have huge deep pockets. If all that fails go to NZ or Antarctica. There are none there.

Steo? Short Term Energy Outlook? Student Transport of Eastern Ontario? Services for Tertiary Education Organisations?

Anyway whatever, it is an interesting concept.

My wife found out that our dog (a Schnauzer) could hardly hear, so she took it to the veterinarian. The vet found that the problem was hair in the dog's ears. He cleaned both ears, and the dog could then hear fine. The vet then proceeded to tell Andrea that, if she wanted to keep this from recurring, she should go to the store and get some "Nair" hair remover and rub it in the dog's ears once a month.

Andrea went to the store and bought some "Nair" hair remover. At the register, the pharmacist told her, "If you're going to use this under your arms, don't use deodorant for a few days."

Andrea said, "I'm not using it under my arms."

The pharmacist said, "If you're using it on your legs, don't use body lotion for a couple of days."

Andrea replied, "I'm not using it on my legs either. If you must know, I'm using it on my Schnauzer."

The pharmacist says, "Well, stay off your bicycle for about a week."

A police officer pulls over a speeding car. The officer says, ' I clocked you at 120 km/h, sir.'

The driver says,'Geez, officer I had it on cruise control at 100, perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating.'

Not looking up from her knitting the wife says: 'Now don't be silly dear, you know that this car doesn't have cruise control.'

As the officer writes out the ticket, the driver looks over at his wife and growls, 'Can't you please keep your mouth shut for once?'

The wife smiles demurely and says, 'You should be thankful your radar detector went off when it did.' As the officer makes out the second ticket for the illegal radar detector unit, the man glowers at his wife and says through clenched teeth, 'F...k it woman, can't you keep your mouth shut?'

The officer frowns and says, 'And I notice that you're not wearing your seat belt, sir. That's an automatic $75 fine.'

The driver says, 'Yeah, well, you see officer, I had it on, but took it off when you pulled me over so that I could get my license out of my back pocket.'

The wife says, 'Now, dear, you know very well that you didn't have your seat belt on. You never wear your seat belt when you're driving.'

And as the police officer is writing out the third ticket the driver turns to his wife and barks, 'WHY DON'T You shut the f..k up?

The officer looks over at the woman and asks, 'Does your husband always talk to you this way, Ma'am?'

'Only when he's pissed.'

Superbly edited, Oblivion soundtrack -great music.

This should cover it

"I like pleasure spiked with pain and music is my aeroplane, is my aeroplane." (Red Hot Chillie Peppers)

"Give me a ticket for an aeroplane, ain't got time to take a fast train" (Jefferson Airplane)

Aeroplane sounds so much better than Airplane as you can see. Even the band with airplane as part of their name figured that one out. Both are American. Now work that out!

We must get away from the postcode qualification for Board membership. The current system doesn't always deliver duds but it does narrow choices and can allow people to be elected (returned unopposed) on very few votes out the 10,000 strong membership. Bit like what's going on in the Senate .I wouldn't care less if all Board Members were from WA. Aviation laws and CASA's reach are independent of parochial region boundaries. Ther is nothing that a WA dominated Board could do to advantage WA and disadvantage, say, NQ. Geography is simply irrelevant - skills, qualifications and experience are what we will get value from. A Board member for NSW that lives in say Coffs Harbour is not going to be able to make drop in visits to people in Broken Hill. He/She are going to have to rely on modern means of comms - email, phones, etc.

 

We need fewer Board Members and lets be grown up enough to not get our flaps in a knot if we don't have one from our region.

That's correct Don, we do indeed have a huge amount of experience out there to draw upon. Yes a few years back it appeared that being a CFI was the minimum qualification to become a board member, which was of course plain wrong and which I believe supported the feeling that it was an 'old boys' club.Although I don't hold any formal academic qualifications, I am highly qualified and trained in the engineering field in many different areas at a formal level, and I have spent a lifetime in aviation and recreational sports.

I have already found this to be a distinct advantage as a board member in dealing with both Ops, Tech areas, and also with the regulator.

 

It does help to be able to 'talk the talk' so to speak, and I feel have already been quite helpfull to some in those areas.........Maj.......

Congratulations for your re-appointment and also to Andy (my local rep & resident at our airfield) & to Michael.

One thing I know is that the Twister has been where no Ra-Aus aircraft has ever been allowed to go or will ever be allowed to go unless Red Bull has something to do with it.

I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards.

Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.

For starters, researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a month, leaving us more than 280,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry.' We are bad-tempered and impatient, and maybe letting us kill some ass hole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while..

An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 am. Old guys always get up early to pee, so what the hell. Besides, like I said, I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical son-of-a-bitch.

If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.

Boot camp would be easier for old guys.. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.

They could lighten up on the obstacle course however... I've been in combat and never saw a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.

Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too... I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.

These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.

Let us old guys track down those terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple million pissed off old farts with bad attitudes and automatic weapons, who know that their best years are already behind them.

HEY!! How about recruiting Women over 50...in menopause!!! You think MEN have attitudes??

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my God!!! If nothing else, put them on border patrol. They'll have it secured the first night!

Where is the spell checker on this site?I am not new to the site but I don't got no spell checker and no emoticons neither!

 

I am wondering if they went the way of the alert buttons and the top of page button when the "You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.

 

You should upgrade or use an alternative browser." started appearing at the top of my page, thanks to Vista 64 no satisfactory update is available! Throw-away society is apparently becoming compulsory.

 

Funny thing is the buttons still work if you know where to point your mouse ( and click)

Politicians and the like love to put "de" in front of nouns to turn them into a negative. They have found this in correct English and extrapolated it to cover almost anything as in deactivate (correct) to deinfiltrate (Huh).

But Turbo you do care about this otherwise you would not have been concerned at the excitement. I once re-wrote a post from a forum member in English as it was almost indecipherable with poor spelling and grammar & almost entirely devoid of punctuation. I headed it "Interpretation". I got a couple of "Likes" but no comment at all from the poster who continues the same way he has always posted. Another member actually pleaded with him to post in readable English, use the spell checker etc and this was also ignored. Maybe there should be a "Grrr" or "Sic" button.