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Look Ma, no parachute or tether.....very impressive

Midair repair...by a woman 1924

Hard to believe that stunts such as these used to be accomplished frequently. Does anyone recall the air-to-air re-fueling of one biplane to another using a long hose? Those people had to be either fearless or just plain crazy!

This woman has more guts than a sausage factory.

Take a look at this film. Fabulous footage , although grainy due to time and bad equipment in those days compared to today, but what nerve this gal had.

Gladys Ingles was a member of a barnstorming troupe called the 13 Black Cats in the 1920's. Ingles was a wing walker; in this film, she shows her fearlessness in classic barnstorming fashion to save an airplane that has lost one of its main landing gear wheels.

Ingles is shown with a replacement wheel being strapped to her back and then off she goes as "Up She Goes," a duet from the era, provides the soundtrack. In the film, Ingles transfers herself

from the rescue plane to the one missing the main landing gear tire.

She then expertly works herself down to the undercarriage only a few feet from a spinning

propeller. It's certainly a feat many mechanics wouldn't even try on the ground with the engine

running. She died at age 82. Click on the link below.......http://www.flixxy.com/mid-air-airplane-repair.htm

Thats terrific!

Well done mate, hopefully i'll see you soon outside the Winstow Shoping Centre with your bucket in hand at the traffic lights, so I can throw in a couple of bucks towards your cross-countries.

Or, if you see an old bloke in Klemm Street showing a bit of leg and thumbing a lift?

For Christ sake stop Stop, and give me a lift to the training area:tongue in cheek:

Kind Regards

Planey

Welcome chris498, you did well getting your certificate in 5 wks. Congratulations!

Chezza may have to rock up at your place so you can go flying together, and discuss the culinary merits of Bangers & Mash, while looking out for Roman Walls and Norman Churches as way-points, because they they may not show up on the GPS.

Good luck to you both.

Alan (The original Womble)

Good luck, and tail winds most of the way back to Oz

If I ever fly away for a short break, My Princess always gets done over., (it's almost guaranteed)

I tell her, as sweet as she may look, you just can't trust older ladies

And Planey crawls back into his shell and learns to duck.

Yea Phil, like most journo's, just full of hot air.

That drunk must have been me, as I said exactly that 45yrs ago on my bucks night, even though I did toss a fiver in the tin.

However, some time later I had to eventually pay penance for my sins, the home for my wife that I giveth, was later taken away

Sometimes he acts in a way that I don't understand.

It isn't going to happen soon, there's too much money to be made corrupting officials and it's so easy. I live in the middle of a patch in Melbourne and have had to deal with it for20 years. After living in another part of the suburb for years I had no idea of what was going on but very quickly learned the principle of developers actually employing staff to seek out an edge - a piece of land close to industrial or residential zoned land, which could be bought for about 10% of the cost of Residential/Industrial Zoned land by quietly working away to have the zoning changed. In many cases the developer signs a secret purchase agreement with the land holder to pay a small deposit and complete the deal subject to rezoning, so he doesn't even pay the pittance until after he collects. This is a form of insider trading which is a crime, and occasionally we score when someone opens his mouth once too often. Mostly though its a very hard slog watching the trends, watching innocent Council Announcements, the worst being along the lines of "Council has decided to protect xxxx by yyyy" and you usually find a clause buried somewhere ready to be used once the population has bought the dummy.

Law of Logical Argument-Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

Are they serious where the grey roof house is about 50m from the old piano keys?? Braver than me to live in that house, I like watching the planes fly over my area but they about 2000ft not 200ft

I love a bit of light aircraft noise too.

But I would have a few concerns if I had to open the front door and the screen door at the back when an aircraft is coming in to land.

I would suggest Richmond Council General Manager Mr Walker moves into the home closest to the strip, if he feels it was a good decision to develop the area in that way.

Really Mr Walker, if you should in some roundabout way get to read this post, which I sincerely hope you do, you were no doubt elected by the local populus to make good decisions for the common good of the local community who pay your wages, but judging by your remarks in the ABC report, your decision making expertise lacks commonsense like many other sad cases in local government who should never be in that job.

Get real please, so you can hold your head high, or do we have to report the matter to WorkCover, CASA, ICAC, or the Ministry of Plain & Simple Common Sense?

Bankstown is not much better since it was privatised.

An industrial development now stands where there were a couple of vacant paddocks not far from the end of 29L & 29C.

One would have thought it would have been prudent to leave any such vacant land clear, in case of emergencies.

The development could easily have fitted in a vacant area around the corner, where the old Schofields Flying Club building sits unused ,or, several other areas not in line with the runways.

Talking airports, this is all that's left of Sydney's Hoxton Park Aerodrome, swallowed up by big bussiness and displacing around 50 planes.Interesting to note that Google Earth still (07-07-13) shows the airport.

The 'Bing Maps' (http://www.bing.com/maps/) still has the name...

 

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If that land was given approval to be developed without "oiling a few palms" i'd be surprised, as it could not have been properly asessed from the safety aspects in the first place.

Someone should be accountable for that crazy decision.

The Goodle Earth view, shows just how crazy it is.

Your talking about the pilot skills and knowledge ,a plane is a plane , there should not be RA or ga planes there just planes.w

If one is used to flying in a sparsley populated area, the stickers on the side don't make it perform differently to the same type you may have already been trained on. We realise that.

However, like it or not, whenever rules are made, invariabley someone on the fringe of what they were written for, could be a bit put out and want something slightly different, and flying that same aircraft into controlled airspace is a certainly a different ball game, and the training has to reflect this.

A line has to be drawn somewhere.

There is lot more skills a pilot need to learn, other than basically being able to fly a particular type safely.

Having said that, i'm sure there'd be a few owners of VH reg J230's and the like, that would have to accept that they can't jump straight into a RA reg version of the same aircraft.

I would say, simply enjoy the privelages you have, and like everyone else, accept that rules are rules.

I think even CASA & RAAus realise "You can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time"

My God, aviation must definately be a disease,

I just jumped the fence again to retrieve my helli from the water, armed with a garden rake, like a no hoper.

I knew it would have been stuffed anyway, but just wanted it back, so I could pull it to bits so I could find out why it went AWOL.

"Planey, you are a "Richard Cranium", but there are others like me. (Some Turbo powered) who will understand!

At our age, there's no substitute for a good set of bi-focal's

May take a tune or two on the snake charmers flute, before the real damage is revealed Alan.

My question is: were you only wearing socks?

My tracksuit looked like i'd played in the State of Origin, and bleeding like a half slaughtered pig, came to the conclusion that some of us silly old farts never grow up.

Just hosed the pathway down this morning, as it looked like a grisly murder scene from the night before.

I sypothised with Turbo's loss though.

Aviation tragics like Planey have to have their aviation toys.

Tonight after flying my rc helicopter around the house, I ventured outside with it.

Flying quietly, so as not to disturb others in the retirement village, I took off from runway whatever ,and climbed smoothly in an easterly direction to an altitude of about 30ft, before it went dead-stick, and came down the other side of the fence.

Stuff that! I though ,that bloody thing cost me 20 bucks delivered from my pension money off of Ebay.

So just wearing just a pair of sock on my feet, I scaled the 7ft fence into to next property which is a building site, and came down on a sharp star picket ripping my sock and putting a gash in my foot that eventally required 8 stiches.

But where's the bloody helli I thought? They're building a swimming pool here and alongside the basic formwork is this water about a metre and a half or so deep after the rain we've had. Armed with a garden rake and a torch, I start raking the bottom of this water to retreive my prized possesion without any luck, then o sh*t, I think that was my nice Guess watch my son gave me, that went in too.

After almost half an hour of fruitless raking, i've come to the conclusion that silly old b's like me, should not have toys and try to jump fences like one's still in their teens.

Despite the injuries, I do not expect an accident investigation from either RAAus, or CASA, but hopefully i'll get my watch back.

Good luck Tomo, i'm sure you'll be giving us all the thumbs up after your BFR:spot on:

Kind Regards

Planey

Sorry Doug, was hoping that we could fly together in formation to collect out pensions, or, maybe others might possibly have been interested.

If the thing turned up on it's own, maybe it was possesed, or being re-possesed:whisper:

Not quite what many of the Never Ending Story devaites think is normal, this could have a few of them peddle in in another direction. NOT MANY, but maybe just a few.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/114063537/paravelo-the-worlds-first-flying-bicycle

Great looking aircraft, but Gee'z! there's been a fair few similar incidents now with the Cirrus, and I couldn't believe that the prop was so bent.

It was obviously still turning at the time of impact, but good to know that the BRS did what it was designed to do, and the PIC was OK.

I seem to have heard more reports of the chute saving it's occupants with the Cirrus, than all the other general ultralights or LSA's where they are fitted.

Maybe, Head in the Clouds is somewhere close to the truth with regards to pushing the limit's, or it giving a false sense of security.