old man emu

This germ paranoia is fed by the likes of Johnson & Johnson, Lever & Kitchen just to sell disinfectants.

Until these companies started to push "germ-free" we seemed to be able to handle the bacteria, moulds and fungi that had existed with us for millennia. It's true that there were a few bad eggs amongst the general microbial population, but when was the last time typhoid, dysentery-causing Shigella and Campylobacter ran riot on your kitchen benches?

I reckon that a whole lot of allergies our grandkids suffer from are due to over-cleanliness, and dumb mums.

We should all email the Board of REX and give them a hearty cheer and loud "Well Done!"

It would be no different from importing an aircraft from any other country. One of the things that has to be done if an aircraft had been registered in another country is to to have it removed from that country's register. An aircraft comes into Australia as a Stateless object.

You will face the usual problems (not insurmountable) relating to quarantine and a swag of taxes, plus freight handling.

If you built it, then getting it through registration here should not be any problem.

I think that sleep-related collisions in long distance heavy vehicle drivers is a result more from mind-numbing boredom and probably sleep deprivation than sleep apnoea.

You try stopping yourself from nodding off while you are sitting in one position, doing very little physical activity (power steering, automatic gearing and powerful engines that can pull massive loads without drivers having to work the gears all the time), on a road with many straights and gentle curves.

Agree but Jabiru props are safer than most, Might cause complacency for other types?

There's some value in beginning to instill safety in a tyro pilot before they leave the flight hut.

They are entering a new environment where there are dangers that have not been pointed out to them. Things like - don't lean on a propeller; always attach an earth strap to the plane before refuelling; watch out for things hanging under the wings (pitot tubes), and stop if your hear "Clear Prop".

From Germany it could be D-HODN, but that's nusse to me.

Here is a record of the first time a Zurabatic Cartwheel was done in publi.

Highlights Of Farnborough 1951

The pilot was Janusz Żurakowski - Wikipedia

The day a dream crashed to earth

The Avro Canada Arrow was probably the first new generation military aircraft development that was killed off by government ignorance

Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow - Wikipedia

The RAAus Board met on Friday 31 August 2018 and Saturday 1 September 2018. The purpose of the meeting was three-fold.Firstly, the RAAus Board has engaged a specialist consultant to undertake a full performance evaluation of directors and the board as a whole with a view to assuring members that the Board operates at an optimum level.

 

Secondly the Board and senior management met to discuss the future strategic plan of RAAus. Using feedback from the member’s survey, statistical data and the input of staff and managers, the Board has developed RAAus’ 2019-2023 draft Strategic Plan. The plan will be further reviewed in November and a draft plan presented to members at our AGM.

As soon as the honeymoon with incredibly low interest rates comes to an end, there'll be tumbleweed in the streets of southwest Sydney and the buzzards will circle overhead.

$94,000 per acre !!?? That's as cheap as chips. Undeveloped land in southwest Sydney is selling for over $1,000,000 per acre.

Springfield Road, Catherine Field looking southeast towards Camden Valley Way.

The flag indicates Springfield Road

I was thinking that one of these would be good on a farm strip where it could be erected where there were trees or other buildings to act as a windbreak.

I know that plastic sheeting would have to be replaced every couple of years due to UV damage, but this might be a cheap alternative.

Looking at the displacement of objects that were on the ground before the impact, and the resting place of the aircraft debris, would you suggest that the aircraft was in an inverted spin, with low forward speed when it hit something out of frame to the top right of the picture?

I saw this picture in the article about the sale of Pennfield at Sunbury, and was wondering if those green, domed structures are good hangars.

If anyone would like the frame of something similar, I could make enquiries with the owner of something similar I know of on a 5-acre property near me.

OME

Have you ever tried to get a toilet bowl through a security scanner?

Pull it off. Clean off the rust and look for ID markings on the head.

The stats might be telling porkies again. How many aircraft are on the register, but can't be flown?

Once an aircraft is on the CASA register, does it ever come off? Just because it is on the register does not mean that it is flying. I was at Bankstown yesterday and saw PBY-Catalina VH-CAT. It has been sitting in the same position for the past ten years I know of, but is not airworthy. But it is on the register. Look at its entry in the register:

Aircraft register search

And as a result of that fatal crash, Camden Airport passed into the hands of the Government at no cost; later to be tacquired by anti-aviation land developers who are seeking to exterminate General and Recreational aviation in Australia.

Edward Macarthur-Onlsow had handed over the Macarthur-Onlsow land "for the duration", to be returned afterwards. The hand-over was a gentlemen's agreement between Macarthur-Onlsow and Fairburn. With the death of Fairburn, the particulars of the unwritten agreement went to the grave.

The third pic I can only assume is the face of God,

What a beautiful thin a cirrus cloud is (top left).

Ice crystals in cirrus clouds mostly form by condensing on seed particles rather than freezing straight from the water vapour. It also seems that cirrus are fussy – not just any particle will do. The majority of crystals, 61 per cent on average, form around two types of seed that account for less than 1 per cent of the particles found at the altitudes where cirrus form. These are the fine mineral dust from sources such as deserts, and tiny specks of metals including lead, zinc, tin, copper and silver. Very few cirrus ice crystals condense around the sulphates and soot that are more abundant at that altitude and are common seeds for clouds at lower elevations. The water vapour is more likely to stick to and freeze on minerals and metals than the sulphates and carbon particles that are also floating around. This could be because their crystalline structures are full of small cracks where ice crystals form easily.

Beautiful as they are in macro-form, and full of metal in micro-form, cirrus clouds have a sinister side. Cirrus clouds trap heat, so they play a role in global warming.

The only instruments that need to be altered are:

1: Change from inches Hg to millibars on the sub-scale

2: Readjust the magnetic compass for Southern Hemishpere declension.

Neither are big jobs, if you can find a CASA approved instrument maker.

Yes, its feasible, and quite commonly done.

Don't forget that you will pay GST on the plane, the transport, the insurance etc, etc.

It cannot be stressed enough that before you hand over a brass razoo, you have the plane thoroughly inspected by a qualified Australian aircraft engineer who has a lot of experience with either the exact model of plane you are buying, or with the construction type - all metal; rag and bone, composite. It will cost you around $5000 to send an Aussie engineer to the States to do the inspection, but if you do that , you won't be buying a pig in a poke. There's many a person who has not had that inspection done by an Aussie and now has a very expensive piece of aviation artwork.

OME

Thankfully it wasn't the schveigle valve in the prop arc controller.

Thanks for the reminder that we are all humans, not Aussies and others. Mass behaviour will always look like a herd of wilderbeast.

Transport = Road, Rail and Sea.

Infrastructure = Roads, Railways and Harbours.

It's a myth that Man can fly.