old man emu

Does having a specific reason to lose weight ease the mental difficulty? I've got a big reunion coming up the middle of next year. I'd love to lose 40 kg before hand as I've seen some recent pictures of the kids I went to school with. I was the fatty, they were thin. I'd love to walk in to the function looking like a sapling rather than a mature Moreton Bay Fig.

I think our problem has been the explosion of food outlets who serve up larger than necessary portions, with high energy concentrations. My problem is eating too much store-bought food. I should be making a sandwich to take for lunch, or evening meal when I'm working. Remember your dad going to work with a couple of devon sandwiches in a brown paper bag? It was only the beer that put a gut on him. The unsung hero of the take-away food shop is the fruiterer. Plenty of pre-packaged nourishment which can be consumed in large amounts to fill the stomach. Throw in a boiled egg of two , or some cheese and you have a low energy, satisfying lunch.

Also, I'm getting bored by the taste of food that is not home cooked. It's amazing how satisfying meat and two veg is, compared to pizza, fried chicken, Asian, and even a pommy baked dinner*. Home-cooked is also easier on the hip pocket nerve. Take-away as a time saver? It takes me about 30 minutes from go to whoa to cook meat and two. That's about the same time, or less, than it takes me to go an pick up take-away.

How is it that I can extol all these arguments in favour of sensible food choices, but still can't practice what I preach?

* Pommy baked dinner = Fish 'n' Chips

It doesn't really matter when using materials whether you use stuff sold by metric or imperial size.

Just remember that 1/16" = 0.0625" = 1.5875 mm, or 1/16" = 1.5 mm. Then:

1/16" = 1.5 mm

1/8"  = 3 mm

1/4"  = 6 mm

1/2"  = 12 mm

3/4"  = 19 mm

1"     =  25 mm

These approximations are just a poofteenth out, but over a 10 ft length using 1" ~ 25 mm will have you 2% (60 mm) shorter than using 1 " ~ 25.4 mm (60 mm)

Since quality hardware used in aircraft of all types is mainly made in the USA, then get yourself some rulers marked in imperial units and learn the duodecimal system, and its  common lengths in divisions of 1/32"

I don't know if they let non-Hobbits stay in The Shire for very long.

Ha! That's if you get home from Sydney. Are you driving or taking the train?

comment would apply if doing a regular, payed (not share ) transport to work of a passenger in a RAA aircraft.

Hear that, Pauline?

One Nation plane was 'no donation', but James Ashby allowed to pilot it for campaign events

I'd say that the manufacturer does not recommend WD40 in aviation use for its usual role as a lubricant. However, the task here is to clean metal, and for such a use, WD40 is known to be useful. It is simply being used as a penetrant and surfactant. The manual cleaning process will remove it from the wires.

Actually, what we smell and call "alcohol on the breath" are the chemicals produced as a result of the action of stomach acids on the other constituents of a beverage containing alcohol. The more correct terms would be "beer breath", "whisky breath", or "wine breath"

As long as the GoPro does not interfere with the operation of flight controls, or cause erroneous readings from flight instruments, or reduce the pilot's range of vision, it would be OK to mount it temporarily inside the aircraft. If that is not a possibility, used a headband mount and then the camera will record that at which you are looking.

For his sake, he's done his career.

Let's get off the specific "no flight plan lodged" and look at the other example of lack of fact checking. "Aviation Australia"????? Who or what is that?

Should we drown the Editor in Chief with complaints of poor basic reporting? Unless we become the squeaky wheel, the meeja will continue to slur non-commercial aviation.

Not Channel 7 this time, but the "venerable" Sydney Morning Herald.

Reporting the double fatality at Wentworth on 31/10/18

Civil Aviation Safety Authority spokesman Peter Gibson said the Eurofox ultralight plane crashed 65km from Wentworth.

He said no flight plan was recorded for the ultralight and the governing body for ultralights, Aviation Australia, would assist police with the investigation and give CASA a final report.

I love the line: "and surly, bearded, tattooed and ostentatiously over-armed police strut through the terminal, "

I'm not buying a plane.all I want to know is how to calculate the cost per hour of owning an aircraft based on the video above?

There's no date on the video, so you can't estimate the comparison between $US and $AU. Some of his costs are extremely low, e.g. tie-down fee or hangarage. In some places, the amount he's quoting per week are nearly equal to per part day rates in Australia.

The results of an operating cost analysis will show you that cost/hour is proportional to hours flown/year.

Phil,

Go back to the start of this thread and you will see where the picture comes from.

I was implying that the meeja uses stock footage in their reports and often the images are completely irrelevant to the story.

In the past, Australian museums had a very poor standard of preserving (ie preventing decay) of the items they had. I wonder of The Old Bus was just put into that glass case and forgotten. If that is so, it is in danger of falling apart at the slightest touch. I wonder if the same conditions exist for the Smith Brother's Vickers Vimy bomber (G-EAOU) (the registration being whimsically said to stand for "God 'elp all of us") at Adelaide Airport.

I still think the Flettner rotor is less energy demanding, however an inherent safety concern is that if power to the rotating drums was lost—even if thrust was maintained—the aircraft would lose its ability to generate lift as the drum slowed down and it would not be able to sustain flight.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-weird-vintage-airplane-flies-with-cylinders-instea-1663010423?IR=T

And for the techno's https://oppositelock.kinja.com/the-magnus-effect-is-how-a-wing-with-backspin-can-fly-1718318501

Biography - Sir George Hubert Wilkins - Australian Dictionary of Biography

Wilkins' Detroiter after it crashed in Alaska. It was later sold to Charles Kingsford Smith and renamed "Southern Cross".

QF jet carrying the royals had to go around because there was another a/c on the “TARMAC” fine proof reading Channel 9 morning show.

On the commercial radio it was said that the reason was a truck being on the (place where planes land). That's old news! The story was mentioned in this very thread in Post#3

Cordless or not, using a drill or powered screwdriver to tighten screws can lead to irreparable damage to the head slot, or, worse still, de-heading the screw, creating an unnecessary job. The same things can arise occasionally whilst removing screws.

You call that 'open cockpit'?

THAT'S open cockpit.

What happened to 'see and be seen"? Those markings remind me of Dazzle camouflage - Wikipedia used on ships in WWl.

I reckon it would be off-putting during close-quarters maneuvering.

If a wing moving at an oblique angle to the relative movement of the longitudinal axis of the aircraft through the air results in a yaw,

how does this plane manage to fly straight and level?

AD-1 Oblique Wing

I'm glad it was so easy to get the Nav bar over to the left. Don't go into Labor about it. Just put the cross in the correct box

I've dodged pelicans, frigate birds and hit plenty of seagulls.. Nev

I counted 13 blokes standing around the plane. Why didn't they just pick the nose up and wheel the thing off the runway?

Oh! I forgot. Those blokes were from the Evidence Eradication Unit.