Old Koreelah

My sentiments exactly - why does an aviation site have to be ruined by god-botherers and pointless discussions about politics by people pushing their way-out views?

As Geoff said. Polycarbonate/Lexan or something with similar qualities should be mandatory in front of aircrew. I'd hate to hit a bird with an acrylic/Perspex screen- it is great stuff for everywhere else: resists scratching and can be polished. It is also easy to smash your way thru after a prang.

Unfortunately polycarbonate is harder to form, unless you just want a simple curve. It's hygroscopic (absorbs moisture) and has to be cooked at (from memory) 60C for 24 hours to dry out the water before heat forming compound curves, which requires 130C or more. I learned that the hard way: while gently heating my screen it suddenly went milky and bubbly. Polycarbonate also scratches easily, but luckily it's cheap to replace. My screen cost $80 a decade ago; the new one cost $40.

Digging! not looking for buried Spitfires or trains are you?

But maybe you're onto something, DP: there are persistent reports of Spitfires being buried in mine shafts near Oakey RAAF base.

I'm lucky to be under the flight path for planes crossing the Liverpool Range between Narrabri-Moree and Scone. I often see interesting aircraft when outside digging, but I'd have to drop the pick, rush inside to find the SLR.

Of more interest is local aircraft; blokes from our Aero Club or BAE CT4s doing aeros.

Mine is unavailable, but my wife has a good camera. Must start being nice to her...

Mine cost about $120 and comes with a near-90 degree mirror, plus other tools.

Now that's a pretty big claim, PM. Sources?

Who can say whether malaria would have been beaten? Is this another case of man's astounding arrogance: we must wipe out all diseases that limit our species' population growth, no matter what damage we do to the natural world- on which we depend for our survival?

Coincides with RAA's AGM in Bundaberg. A great opportunity to participate.

Instructing isn't just about teaching a student the fundamentals. It's also teaching them to think about all of the variables involved with each flight. Eventually - they are off solo. Each and every solo is another stressful event for the caring and cautious instructor. It's not a lightly made decision.I feel empathy with every instructor whose current student suffers an accident. Our society is inclined to look for someone, or something, to blame for every aviation accident and incident. It begs the question though - why are we so much less concerned about the carnage on our roads? It's not as though the flying instructor doesn't already feel devastated. Many never instruct again. I hope in this case that the instructor is not crucified and is given full support.

Nice plane. Something like that flew south over us yesterday, crossing the Liverpool Range at about 8,000'.

Must keep a pair of binoculars handy for when exotic aircraft pass over.

Thanks for the replies! I had no idea of this research organisation. It's work is especially interesting because some of my early training was in remote sensing.

Looks ready to fly intercontinental.

Mentioned in the following:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-34171454

Most newer TVs have an HDMI slot, which will take a cable via an adaptor from your iPad.

Hi all. Is there a program that shows aviation maps on a PC desktop. I use Ozrunways to plan currently but would like to look at it on a larger scale. Especially when trying to plan longer journeys, like Brisbane to Mildura say. i find it a bit limiting on the ipad to get a good overall view.

...maybe if we all stayed in the ground for a few years CASA would go away...

Good to see someone not knocking the Zero because of it's cultural heritage.I try not to worry too much where a plane came from, just it's effectiveness as an aeroplane, and to that end, the Zero is a brilliant piece of design and construction work.

I've often looked at various warbirds with an aim of making scaled ultralight versions.

 

All the 'usual suspects' have been done, but the Zero seems missing, and would make a great counterpoint to the Titan 51, or Sullivan Spitfire.

 

Could be built light enough to be powered by the usual 912s, or be fitted with a Rotec radial...

A favourite of mine, Marty. A brilliant design that ran rings around the allied aircraft of its generation.

Saburo Sakae once flew his Zero for 12hours and 5 minutes till tanks were dry, then glided in to land in the Phillipines. American pilots who tested the Zero recommended it could be the basis of a popular sport plane after the war.

Alas, if all the excess warplanes had not been scrapped they would have cluttered up the place and stymied post-war manufacturing. Their destruction allowed lots of poor people to buy aluminium sausepans and cladding for their homes.

Nev maybe you meant CH4 and H2 rather than CO, which won't burn.

The Jodel's tapering wing is quite efficient but mine had a nasty wing drop last time I did stall tests. Hence the relocated VGs and fences. Next opportunity I'll do some experimenting with the location of Dafydd's stall strips, which he predicts (in addition to limiting how far the elevator pushes the tail down) should set up a reverse vortex strong enough to block the stall from propagating out along the wing.

Any coastal venue will be limited. It would probably be easier for most coastal people to cross the divide than dodge their way along the narrow coastal strip thru terrain and CTA choke points. Once you get west of the range it's usually a clear run.

Just trying to get the lowest possible safe landing speed. (Jodel purists would not approve: all my mods added weight and increased stall speed.)

...What, therefore, is coke oven gas? Large amounts of this gas, whichrepresentsahigh-qualityandlow-costfuelinpurifiedor partiallypurifiedform,resultfromgasificationofcoalorasa by-product of coal degassing at coking plants. It consists of 50 % hydrogen and approx. 25 % methane...

From

http://www.saacke.com/fileadmin/Media/Documents/pdfs/EN/Brochures/Coke-Oven-Gas.pdf

Jeez, she looks a picture. If I patted her on the nose, would she follow me home?

The gas producer ran on Coke which produces CO that burns to CO2...

I had an idea the method was used during the war to make some type of fuel...

Australia's current government is making us more dependent on coal and is also on the nose internationally...

Can you see a trend here?