old man emu

Finding the correct answer is just something to occupy the minds of the pedantics. It is confusing to try to put a finger on it.

Consider a baby born on the 1st of January. We describe its age for the first year by stating the number of completed months since its birth - 3 months-old; 6 months-old; 9 months-old; 12 months-old. Then we celebrate its first birthday.

Likewise, if we marry on the 14th February, we celebrate our First Wedding Anniversary on 14th February twelve months later.

However, we determine a centenary by mathematical calculation: 2015 - 1915 = 100.

So the two words have different meanings, and

Centenary: Of, pertaining to, or completing a period of 100 years. A one hundredth anniversary

I asked "Would you like the negatives?" "Yes please," he said sheepishly. I said, "Ok then. Your wife's got saggy t**s, a fat a**e and she should seriously think about giving herself a good trim!!..

OME

Are we 12 months early in commemorating the anniversary of ANZAC?

I reckon we are 12 months too early to be celebrating the anniversary of ANZAC.

An anniversary is a day that commemorates or celebrates a past event that occurred on the same date of the year as the initial event. For example, the first event is the initial occurrence or, if planned, the inaugural of the event. One year later would be the first anniversary of that event.

Centenary: Of, pertaining to, or completing a period of 100 years. A one hundredth anniversary

So, 2015 is actually the 99th anniversary of ANZAC, but 100 years since it happened.

OME

Remember the section in the Readers Digest entitled "It pays to increase your wordpower'"? Here's a good reference:

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5402/pg5402.html

OME

You may have seen an ad on TV for a fold-down anti-glare visor being sold by someone like Danoz-Direct? I saw them in a cheap shop in Penrith yesterday, but didn't check the price.

OME

Strike this incident off the "Why I hate Jabiru engines" list. Put it down to wingnut failure.

OME

From the MSDS for Avtur:

11. TOXICOLOGICAL INFORMATION Basis for Assessment : Information given is based on product data, a knowledge of the components and the toxicology of similar products.

Acute Oral Toxicity : Low toxicity:LD50 >2000 mg/kg, Rat Aspiration into the lungs when swallowed or vomited may cause chemical pneumonitis which can be fatal.

Acute Dermal Toxicity : Low toxicity:LD50 >2000 mg/kg, Rabbit

Acute Inhalation Toxicity : Low toxicity: LC50 >5 mg/l / 4 h, Rat High concentrations may cause central nervous system depression resulting in headaches, dizziness and nausea; continued inhalation may result in unconsciousness and/or death.

Skin Irritation : Irritating to skin.

Eye Irritation : Slightly irritating.

Respiratory Irritation : Slightly irritating.

Sensitisation : Not a skin sensitiser. Repeated Dose Toxicity : Kidney: caused kidney effects in male rats which are not considered relevant to humans

Mutagenicity : Not considered a mutagenic hazard.

Carcinogenicity : Not classified as a carcinogen. Repeated skin contact has resulted in irritation and skin cancer in animals.

Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity : Not expected to be a developmental toxicant.

F-34 / AVTUR/FSII Version 1.2 Effective Date 08.04.2010 Material Safety Data Sheet 8/10 Print Date 08.04.2010

OME

The effort that these "reporters" put into checking the background facts of their stories makes one wonder if one should even trust the date printed in the banner.

I suppose one should be pleased that this "glider" didn't plummet into the ground as most airplanes do in a crash. I wonder if these reporters during their first lecture in Journalism 101 at an institute of higher learning are given a list of buzz words and cliches to commit to memory for use in various disaster reports.

I had another thought ... maybe the engine had stopped. That would make the airplane a glider, wouldn't it?

OME

Phil,

At the risk of sounding like a wine slob, did you know that ALDI in Australia entered several of its under $AU10.00 wines in a wine and food competition and this was the result:

http://www.goodfood.com.au/good-food/drink/a-corker-for-aldi-as-its-wines-shine-at-2014-sydney-international-wine-competition-20141126-11u3wc.html

Perhaps you should divert past Waitrose and touch down in your local ALDI. You'll probably have to badger the Manager to stock some good wine.

OME

On today's exchange rate,

130000 GBP - VAT @ 20% = 104,000 GBP

$AU 1 = 0.52145 GBP

104,000 GPB = $AU 249,230

$249,230 + GST = $274,162

Plus Freight, Insurance and registration, and I don't see a lot of change out of about $320,000. I suppose that you could reduce the cost a smidge by arranging to have the engine installed here to save the costs of sending it to England for fitting during assembly.

At the price quoted for the gyro, it's definitely a rich enthusiast's prospect.

I notice that the designer did not propose a cruising speed. He only suggested that with the wider chord rotors it would not have the top speed of its competitors. So what cruise speed do they have?

Also, what are the fuel consumption figures for the Rotec 9 cylinder?

OME

I was at Gilgandra on ANZAC Day. One of the town's sons is an F18 jockey, so he was given the honour of doing the fly-past. I'm told that the operational orders called had him doing two passes, however, being a jet jockey, he swung around and did a third run along the main street, followed by a vertical departure - magnificent !

A highlight of the fly-past was the sound of the engine road setting off the burglar alarm in one of the shops.

The RAAF also provided a cataflque party from Richmond. The Herc squadron there did a bus run around NSW, dropping off airmen in various towns for the ANZAC Day March. It arrived in Gilgandra to pick up the cataflaque but had an avionics failure (FADEC). Made worse by the fact that the Air Movements Commander, an Air Commodore, was one of the passengers. They had to fly another Herc up from Richmond to transport the passengers. They had to hold the broken Herc on the ground util today when they could fly up a replacement part.

The crew gave the locals who had come out to watch the take-off a good tour of the aircraft. Did you know that the only mechanical flight instruments on the pilot's panel are the AH, ASI and Altimeter? They looked so lonely sitting amongst all the knobs and lights.

OME

When I was with QED Hardware, I always specified delivery by UP PS Global priority. For "stock on hand" I would get it in 10 days.

A really big problem I had was that the picker/packers didn't give a sh|t what size box they put stuff into. I'd get a box the size of a 24-can Coke carton and in it would be something the size of a packet of biscuits.

I suggest that you get on the phone and contact Monica Maze at the Corona, California facility. She's really helpful. If you phone her before 9:00am Sydney time you'll get her before she knocks off work on the previous day.

http://localtimes.info/North_America/United_States/California/Corona/

OME

Did he take your BP with a new fangled electronic BP meter or a good old mercury filled sphygmomanometer? One of the GPs I go to for skin cancers is of the old school - Edinburgh and uses the mercury one. When he takes my blood pressure, it is always lower than when taken by a doctor using an electronic one. The old school doctor reckons the new ones always over read. As a matter of fact, I went to a cardiologist for a stress test and my blood pressure was taken with a mercury sphyg. It gave the same low reading as my GP's one.

OME

Tried by various means to contact EPM tech in Derby which,. . .as one of you worthies has pointed out, is just up T' road from where I live Sorry. . . .

OME

I'd say that if a company had gone to the expense of building an example of the obvious high quality finish of this product, and going to the expense of building a manufacturing facility (with financial support from a Derbyshire business promotion organisation, they have done their homework.

Here is a report which goes into slightly more detail about the design http://www.bydanjohnson.com/

We should detail Phil Perry to nip up to Derby and make a detailed study of the airplane and then submit a full report. Go on, Phil. It's only 36 miles up the A38.

OME

Don't you think that underneath those fairings over the boom there would be some sort of boom, possibly somewhat pyrimidoidal in shape but with curved longitudinal members joined by short straight connectors. Since it is a two seater, with a 125kg engine, would you guess its MTOW at something in the 600 - 750 kg range? If so, then the rotor boom would probably be engineered to handle loads of 1500 - 2000 kg. I think an internally braced boom could do that.

From a report in AERO magazine:

However, the Bulldog’s rotor is mounted on a cantilever boom that also serves as fin and incorporates the rudder. As this sets the rotor hub well away from the engine, the run-up system has been made hydraulic.

The same article says that the autogyro is due to fly later this year.

Apparently, the price suggested comes in under the expected price of a well equipped autogyro. Apparently the company's manufacturing facility has not been completed as of mid-April 2015. Rumour has it that four have been ordered. Probably a niche market, but I'd love to nick into it!

OME

OMU The reason you state that residential housing can't be built on the i believe the now unused range is exactly why the area would make a great airport.

There is a very large landfill waste disposal site on the opposite side of Heathcote Road from the firing range. That landfill has been used for years and just look how small it is in comparison to an airport site.

There might be lots of rivers out West with a river, but the amount of water in the rivers is not great enough, nor reliable enough to supply a large city.

OME

Do my eyes deceive? That ASI looks like it has a green band to at least 140 Kts.

It is indeed a thing of beauty to the eye.

OME

There are a couple of reasons why the Army cannot move out of Holdsworthy, and why the land they occupy cannot be turned over to housing.

Holdsworthy has become a major warehousing and transport hub for the Army. In the past few years, a motza has been spent on upgrading their warehouse facilities along Moorebank Avenue. Currently there appears to be a very large warehousing complex being built on Heathcote Road, just south of the East Hills railway line. The Army also has a number of schools for specialist training spread about this complex.

The Holdsworthy Live-Firing Range, which represents the majority of the land held by the army between Holdsworthy and Woronora River towards Heathcote is a heavily dissected sandstone plateau. If you were to spread a blanket over the area, it would pass over more voids than solid ground. The civil engineering costs to make the area suitable for civilian use would be astronomical.

Further, who knows how many items of unexploded ordnance are on the range, and where each one is? One Hundred years later, ordnance is still being unearthed on the Western Front.

The simple answer to the question "Why not move west of the Ranges? " is one word - WATER. Where is the water to come from to supply a new small city which, along with the members of the Army itself, would have to support all the ancilliary services required by a modern city - retail, financial, educational, maintenance and recreational services?

[Putting the NSW Parliament at Cobar? Once again, a bit short on water. Now, Wilcannia sits right on the Darling River!]

OME

Looking at the size of the rudder, I bet that the tail wags the dog.

OME

Gee! Perhaps the problem might have been with the wing-nut on the control column.

OME

Dave has been just as " unlucky" with his jabs as most other operators. He runs as tight a ship as you could find anywhere, and uses highly reputable engineers ,

For those of you who don't have the more recent versions of Word, here is the waiver document in a format that can be read by earlier versions of Word.

OME

acknowledgement_acceptance_risk_form (1).doc

acknowledgement_acceptance_risk_form (1).doc

acknowledgement_acceptance_risk_form (1).doc

I think I'll jump onto my soap box and deliver my opinions of the Jabiru.

1. The Jabiru airframe is well designed and equal to the majority of other airframes in its class.

2. The Jabiru engine is, on the drawing board, well designed and equal to the majority of engines in its class.

3. The Jabiru engine is, in its metallurgical composition, questionable in some components.

4. The Jabiru Company appears to lack adequate quality control standards in its component acceptance and engine assembly procedures.

5. The Jabiru Company management appears to be adverse to listening to the advice of those in the aviation maintenance industry whose knowledge and experience permits them to give expert opinions.

6. The Jabiru Company management appears to have backed itself into a position where it seems that, on the advice of its Liability lawyers, it would be ruinous to engage in discussions with maintenance industry experts.

I lament the fact that an Australian company which has designed and built a class equaling airplane has, by an apparent stubborn attitude, given its product a bad name.

Am I a fan of the Jabiru? Yes.

Am I proud of the Jabiru? As a representation of Australian's ability to produce a product equal to any other country's product in the same class - Yes.

Would I fly a Jabiru? Yes

Would I own a Jabiru? Airframe - Yes, but I'd be constantly worried about the on-going costs of making the modifications required to what is, in reality, an experimental engine.

I hope that you see my opinion as a balanced appraisal of the Jabiru airplane. I think I have made it clear that, in my opinion, it is Jabiru Management that is letting this airplane down.

Old Man Emu

One of Dave's is sitting in the usual maintenance hangar waiting for a new engine. The Chief Engineer told me the other day that he's had a gut full of the Jabiru company and their apparent avoidance of any meaningful discussion of the problems their engines are exhibiting.

The Jab that did the George of the Jungle act the other week has been heli-lifted out of the bush and is sitting in the back of another hangar at Camden.

The good thing about learning to fly in a Jabiru is that you become very proficient in your recovery from engine failure technique. It's a bit like the old chestnut - there are two groups of pilots of airplanes with retractable undercarriages. Those who have had a gear up landing and those who are going to.

OME