old man emu

SNCAN Stampe SV.4B with a winter enclosed tandem cockpit.

Found this picture whilst trawling through old PIX magazines ( The popular tabloid Pix magazine now online! )

What is so sad going through these old magazines is that the hot bods in the pictures are now wrinkly old dears in old people's homes.

I remember FNS coming over from WA to Camden where it was hangered at Airborne Aviation and worked on by Dent Aviation. Had a real lot of trouble trying to get the brakes to work. It was a really beautiful aircraft with a great, round-engine sound.

{Piper Pawnee X Pilatus PC-6} X Volksplane VP-1

X X =

I was brought up on a dairy farm with no power, only Aladdin kerosene lamps for light, and only a wood stove to cook on.

I'm curious about this plane. The photo is said to have been taken in Africa in 1942, and the bike and rider are Yanks. But I can't think of an American fighter with such a narrow undercarriage. The only other clue might be the 'ring and bead' gunsight. Could the plane be a Curtiss Tomahawk?

Anyone got a spare caravan they are not using. I'd like to get ot so I could apply for this dream job

AIRFIELD CARETAKER REQUIRED.

I've recently watch a doco on the Tempest, and I think that I recall the old pilots pooh-poohing the story that V1's were tipped over with aircraft wing tips. The usual go was to shoot them down as this account tells.

http://www.lamberhurstvillage.co.uk/usr/DHwartimeinKentnew_j5yw.pdf

A feisty Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay - Wikipedia

I remember the Stringbag as one for the first 1/72 scale Airfix kits I put together.

I always have wondered why it had a three-man crew, when most other aircraft for similar tasks only had a pilot and gunner.

OME, I think that should be "transporter".

It is an ironic coincidence that we should mention the 'hyperlink' train ( Elon Musk claims approval for 30-minute Hyperloop between New York and Washington DC ) the day after a similar ultra-high-speed transported was an element in the Murdoch detective mystery "F.L.A.S.H.!" ("Murdoch Mysteries" F.L.A.S.H.! (TV Episode 2018) - IMDb ) was broadcast on Foxtel.

In the TV show the transported operates on electromagnetic repulsion, but calculations show that electromagnetic flux would set up oscillations in the levitation system that would throw the transporter off its path. An operational transported was hoped to go from Toronto, Canada to London, through a seabed tunnel of pipe, in 4 hours (3560 miles/4 = 890 mph; 3093 NM/4 = 770 kts) Speed of sound between 0 and 20C at MSL is between 740 and 765 mph. 890 mph/750 mph ~ 1.2 Mach.

I love the way you blokes pun, but do you realy have to faucet?

This is a very famous one in Katoomba. History of the Paragon Cafe, Katoomba

NO. The curry-munchers have moved into the Service Stations.

Long gone are the days of the Counter Lunch, and no more is there a Nick the Greek's Paragon or Niagra serving farmer's wives on their day in town.

Many technological advances are accidents. The microwave oven wouldn't have existed if Percy Spencer hadn't been farting around with a radar magnetron and melted a chocolate bar in his pants.

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly ......

This diagram is interesting as it shows the distribution of "throwing stick" types. I wonder if the distribution indicates several waves of migraton.

Boomerang and kylie

Boomerang not made

Yellow bit: Kylie only

It seems that the returning boomerang is used in a number of ways. For hunting purposes it is used to startle resting birds so that they flew into nets across the flight path. It can also be used to knock birds out of an airborne flock. On days off, it isa recreational toy. Finally, a pair of returning boomerangs make a percussion musical instrument.

There is another hooked-shaped throwing stick which does not return, but has a straight trajectory and greater range than a spear. Such a throwing stick is called a 'kylie'.

There is another reference to Kiley: ON KILEY'S RUN by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson (1864 - 1941) but that name is of Irish origin from the area of the Munster counties of Waterford, Limerick and Cork.

The school of course was there before the airport,

Parents rushed in fear to Bexley Public School on reports of an out of control QANTAS jet heading towards the school. Bexley Public School is a long established educational facility providing for the growth and development of children from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. Established over 125 years ago, the school lies beneath the flight path to Sydney International Airport's East/West runway.

Local resident and parent of children at Bexley PS, Mahatma Kote, deplored the danger the airport poses to his children.

"We are refugees from a war-torn land where the sound of jet fighters and missiles drowned out the bird song every day. My wife and I live in fear that one day the jet leaving the airport will fall from the sky onto the school."

Bloody QANTAS late on departure again. Was supposed to leave at 11:00 am, but didn't start until 2:15pm.

Just imaging it today. A nineteen year-old flying a high performance, twin-engined aircraft, with a passenger, at crop-dusting heights over unfamiliar territory.

The explosion at CASA would make Krakatoa seem like a lark's fart.

Sidney Cotton: The Last Plane Out Of Berlin by Jeff Watson

A documentary was made The Last Plane Out of Berlin (TV Movie 2000) - IMDb about Cotton. Scenes representing Templehoff Airport were filmed at Camden Airport.

Dent Aviation looked after the airplane used. You can see the "Templehoff" sign on the back wall of Dent's hangar.