planedriver

Do kyou need a reason to get heaps more money?

Moderators perks, claiming they don't work for any unions, so have to grab whatever they can.

A man goes to a phsychiatrist because of his total obsession

with sex.

The phychiatrist sits him down and starts showing him

pictures of ink blots.

Every time the man sees an ink blot picture, he tells the

phsychiatrist that he can see a naked woman.

"This is incredible," says the phychiatrist.

"Whatever test I give you, you see a naked woman. You really

do have a problem."

"I have a problem?" replies the man. "Your the one showing

me all the dirty pictures!".

Surely, if God had meant man to fly, he would have given him heaps more money.

Two aliens land in western Sydney, and they happen to land next to a 7/11 gas station.

So, the aliens waddle out of their ship and look around. The first thing they see that resembles a human being is the gas pump. The two aliens approach and the first one says "Earthling, take me to your leader!" Of course he gets no response...

The first alien looks at his buddy then addresses the pump again. "Earthling, I said take me to your leader!" Of course, still no response... The alien then turns to his buddy and says "If this Earthling doesn't show me some respect and at least acknowledge me, I'm going to blast him!"

At that the second alien replies, "OK. I'm just going to stand down on the next block."

The first Alien looks a little puzzled, but waits for the other to waddle to the next block. He then addresses the pump a third time. "Earthling take me to your leader!" Still nothing.

So the alien then pulls out his ray gun and vaporizes the pump...

The gas station goes up in a huge explosion, blowing the alien all the way down the block to his buddy. He gets up, dusts himself off, and turns to the second Alien. "If you knew that was going to happen why didn't you warn me!?"

The second replies "Well, I didn't know exactly *what* was going to happen. But there's no way I'm gonna' mess with a guy whose penis hangs to the ground, wraps around his body twice, and is still long enough to stick in his left ear!"

Jake the inventor is struggling through the air terminal with two huge and obviously heavy suitcases when a stranger walks up to him and ask "Have you got the time?"

Jake sighs, puts down the suitcases and glances at his wrist. "Its a quarter to six" he says.

Hay, that's a pretty fancy watch" exclaimes the stranger. Jake brightens a little. "Yeah, it's not bad. I've been working on it for months - Check this out" - and he shows him the time zone display, not just for every time zone in the world, but for the 86 largest cities in the world. He hits a few buttons and from somewhere on the watch a voice says "the time is eleven till six" in a Cape Cod accent. A few more buttons and the same voice says something in Spanish then Japanese. Jake continues "Ive also put in regiona accents for each city". The dislplay is unbelievably high quality and the voice is simply astounding.

The stranger is struck dumb with admiration. "Thats not all" says Jake. He pushes a few more buttons and a tiny but very high-resolution map of New York City appears on the display. " The flashing dot shows our location by satellite positioning" explains Jake. "View recede ten", Jake says, and the dispaly changes to show eastern New York State. "I want to buy this watch" Says the stranger.

"Oh,no, its not ready for sale yet; I'm still working out the bugs." "But look at this", and he proceeds to demonstrate that the watch is also a very creditable little FM radio receiver with a digital tuner, a sonar device that can mesure distances up to 125 meters, a pager with thermal paper printout, and most impressive of all, the capacity for voice recording of up to 300 standard-sized books. "though I only have 32 of my most favorites in there so far" says Jake.

"I've got to have that watch" says the stranger.

"No, you don't understand; its not ready"

"I'll give you $1,000 for it".

"Oh, no, I've already spent more than that--"

"I'll give you $5,000 for it!"

"But its just not-"

"I'll give you $15,000 for it!" And the stranger pulls out a checkbook' Jake stops to think. He's only put about $8,500 into materials and development, and with $15,000 he can make another one and have it ready for merchandising in only six months. The stranger frantically finishes writing the check and waves it in front of him. "Here it is, ready to hand to you right here and now. $15,000. Take it or leave it."

Jake abruptly makes his decision. "OK", he says, and peels off the watch.

They make the exchange and the stranger starts happily away. "Hay, wait a minute", calls Jake to the stranger, who turns around warily. Jakes points to the two suitcases he'd been trying to werstle through the terminal.

"Don't forget your hard drive and batteries".

Three Italian nuns die and go to heaven where they are met by St. Peter at the pearly gates.

St. Peter says "Ladies, you all led such wonderful lives, that I'm granting you six months to go back to Earth and be anyone you want".

The first nun says, "I want to be Sophia Loren" and POOF she's gone.

The second says, "I want to be Madonna" and POOF she's gone.

The third says, "I want to be Sara Pipalini".

St. Peter looks perplexed. "Who?" he says.

"Sara Pipalini" replies the nun.

St. Peter shakes his head and says, "I'm sorry, that name just doesn't ring a bell." The nun then takes a newspaper out of her habit and hands it to St. Peter. He reads the paper and starts laughing. "No Sister, he laughs, this says 'Sahara Pipeline, laid by 500 men in 7 days'!"

If visiting Bankstown before filming finishes, don't set your altimeter going by whats written under the Faro Airport sign, or you might stuff-up what was otherwise a really good day:ah oh:

Maybe H.H., when your'e an old fart like me, you remember the things from the Mk1 of everything!

Surely you jest Planedriver? The Aztec is a great aircraft, what other aircraft can carry six people, enough fuel for about 7 hours and get airborne from runways well under 600M?Aztecs ROCK!!

 

Footnote: I have just realised the age of many of the contributees on this forum, when I said "Aztecs ROCK", I didn't mean the band led by Billy Thorpe, although they were OK.

There must have been good reason why they upgraded the 125hp engines to 150hp, then 160hp, then 235hp and finally 250hp each.

I flew with him a few times in the early days, but as a kid, I wouldn't have known whether the engines were calibrated in horsepower, or chookpower, to me it was just a buzz to go flying in an airybuzzer.

I can imagine, that it they doubled the grunt powering the fans, it would have made a hell of a difference.

Just found out that it was 2nd spin off, to do with the Hugh Jackman movie "The Wolverine"

Apparently it's only likely to have about a 30 second airtime despite all the the work and countless dozens of people that are involved.

Just goes to show, that the movie business involves real big bucks.

Last week at Bankstown Airport, prior to the cold snap, I witnessed some unusual sights including snow on the ground.

The area near the terminal building, was chock a block with film crew, and a large corporate jet with American rego, was parked out on the tarmac.

The hanger behind the old Illawarra Flying School had fake snow on the ground, an old Beech 18, or Lockheed Electra just inside it's open doors, and a sign claiming it to be Faro Airport.

The terminal building signage was just being changed to "Welcome to Faro Airport".

Around on the western side of the airport near Sydney Sky Divers, was an old DC3/C47 sporting a gleaming new US Airforce paint job, but minus it's engines, which presumeably, also had something to do with the movie being made.

Maybe someone who works at the airport can throw some more light on the activity (I don't mean the lighting crew)

You old romantic, you! Aztecs ....<sigh>Kaz

This post is real interesting Maj. I, like many others keep looking at the "for sale" ads, and wondering whether it would be wise to invest my limited dollars in something that my heart would love. However, when you see an aircraft for sale with only a couple of hundred hours on it TTIS and it has had a major o/h by the manufacturer, it does not inspire a lot of confidence for a prospective buyer.

That having been said, there are many others who have done many hundreds of hours with their treasured posessions, whether it be 2 stroke, or 4 stroke without any problems.

Having been the same as many on here, who have read just so many reports of through-bolt failures, broken valves, etc; I sometimes get get very hesitant before making an offer for an aircraft that deep down I'd dearly love to own.

Maybe I need a visit to a hypnotherapist to convince me otherwise. or, the whierd looking woman at the local markets who reads your future? and ask's what your name is? If she is as good as she claims, shurely she'd already know!

Hi dman8, welcome to our forums.

Where do you fit into our scene? Are you in in training? or, what do you fly?

We'd love to hear more from you, don't be shy, we all have the same interests and learn a lot (espesially me) from this wonderful site.

Kind Regards Planey

Very cool but as with all RC, looks harder to fly than the real thing!

That video looked great.

Must get around to starting the jig-saw puzzle I was left with from years ago

Back in the mid 1970s I used to fly 3 Peter Powell stunt kites at the same time, however, they were stacked one behind the other.

Looked very pretty in the air with their red, white and blue colours with long streaming tails. It was quite easy to do all sorts of manouvers as they simply followed the kite closest to me. It used to almost rip your arms off at times if the wind was strong, so the big fellah I saw once at Epsom Downs racecourse in the UK flying 6 stacked in formation, not only had big bicepts, but also the weight to help him stay on the ground.

From memory, Peter Powell was a carpenter by trade, and started off making kites for his sons. They were so good, that they went into production, sold millions wordwide, and the money just rolled in, from something simple that started off in the garded shed.

They were all the rage at the time.

A genuine one, is now almost a collectors item.

At one time, I had a little brownie camera fitted to one, which I operated from a third string, but most of the photos turned out crappy.

What the guy in this clip does is brilliant, and theres no way I could ever have done what he does, without ending in a hopeless tangled mess.

Thanks for posting it DP

I hope the new owners hire an editor that actually Edits the magazine. I stopped buying it because it was mostly articles from the US and the rest was so full of spelling and grammatical mistakes that it was painful to read.

I found the same, and stopped buying it for the same reason.

However, to be positive, hopefully, the new buyer will put things right, and prosper for the benefit of all who would like to it.

Just love those photo's.

The first one looks as though it's coming in for serious business, but the second is just so beautiful to keep looking at, you can almost hear the Merlin engine.

With all that power, and that prop which looks enormous, I reckon it would take a boot full of rudder to keep it straight on initial take-off

Oooooh, you are a thaditht Planey.......

where men will be men, and wives will be still be back home doing the dishes (hopefully), and the milkman offers the weekly knudge, knudge, wink-wink, special......

Spend and enjoy Kaz, maybe we'll neet along the same road somewhere?

PS thanks HH

Oh! for Photoshop!.

I reckon VH-PUK looks pretty either way.

Just gotta keep an eye on that Tomo, in case he substitutes the circle donk for an old Briggs and Stratton, or a John Deer motor he's got in the back shed.

He's sure to get it to work anyway:thumb up:

Had they carried modern communication systems with GPS fixes that would have certainly made an early fix on their position more readily available, that would have been great,. However, in this case, it would sadly have not made any differnce to the outcome.

I certainly wouldn't want to pay the bill for having a couple of turbo-prop twins in the air for 3 days and all those hours, plus up to 15 choppers.

The SAR people did a great job in what would have been like "finding a needle in a haystack" but anyone in the same position, would want them to do the same, regarless of of the cost involved.