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  1. Old Koreelah
    You’d better be quick Bruce; they’re a dying breed… https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/how-the-mysterious-deaths-of-23-elite-russians-sparked-a-global-murder-mystery-20221230-p5c9gb.html https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/russian-tycoon-pavel-antov-dies-putin-ukraine/672601/ https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/chilling-clues-that-seven-russian-oligarchs-were-murdered-by-putin/news-story/f43a9907df4b58d20cf7ea3c7e2f3de3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_elites_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine_2022–2023
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    Trying not to join a pointless debate between valued members of this forum, but it occurs to me that too many flyers have died due to too much faith in their engine, such as the fatals resulting from Rotax failures. I fly behind an early hydraulic Jab 2.2 which is approaching the statistical “danger zone” of 300 hours. I accept that it is more likely to stop than a 912- but less likely than a 2 stroke or a dak dak- and fly accordingly. I’ve happily flown in lots of aeroplanes, including those with a Jab engine, but getting into a gyro or helicopter is outside my comfort zone.
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    Excellent point, Glen. Those of us with a less than perfect screen will be affected.
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    Very nice!
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    Emergency services have long tried to standardise which Lat/Long system to use, so that we’re all singing from the same songsheet. In the end, we discovered it’s not a biggie, because rescue helicopters can also swap systems. Degrees and decimals might seem attractive and simple, but DMS is easily converted to actual ground measurements: A Degree of latitude is 60NM, so a Minute is one NM and a second, as OME says, is about 30 metres. One fact that always fascinates me is that the ancients divided the circle into 360 degrees; the French decreed the earth’s circumference to be 40,000km. Divide 40,000 by 360 and you get 111.1111111 This is useful when converting latitude marks on a map into kilometres.
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    ...with a rear gun turret like a Lancaster? I saw it recently on some forum.
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    I enjoy watching Dark Docs, but the film images are often totally unrelated to the commentary.
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    We easily overlook the need for training aircraft, which is what this one morphed into. During WWII American navy pilots needed a realistic aircraft carrier to train on. Instead of diverting precious warships for the purpose, a couple of old coal-driven paddle wheel passenger ships were quickly converted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sable_(IX-81)
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    Here on the bountiful Liverpool Plains the temperature has been varying between early spring 5 degree nights and 33 summer days- with a violent storm every couple of weeks. Our farmers have counted 8 floods this year, some covering whole crops, but just enough dry in between for a good harvest. More rain in a year or so than the previous decade. Flying? If the noise stops, it’s mostly been a choice between a rice padi and chest-high grass.
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    Kawasaki P-1

    Old Koreelah commented on red750's aircraft in Military

    The control links being optical, I suspect it’s meant to be able to survive the EMP of a nuclear explosion.
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    How do they know which accidents, when investigated, will yield useful insights? What super wisdom or experience do they possess that allows them to decide that one crash is unworthy of their talents but another is? Seems they’d need to decide, without investigating, what the most likely cause was. That’s a bit like pure science v applied. Much of the innovation that built our modern world is the result of pure science: dedicated people following lines of enquiry that interested them, rather than projects designed to boost the profits of their sponsors.
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    Good idea, but a hose that wide is probably overkill. I use a 25mm hose to duct air to each coil. The flow is probably reduced by a few curves and the friction inside that small scat hose, but it should be enough. Does your big coil cooling air supply affect air flow to the hot bits of the engine?
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    For a time there, despite the limitations around working with the Coroner, RAA was pretty good at passing on safety lessons to us.
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    Emergency personnel are officially directed not to post pix of accident scenes- presumably their organisation’s disciplinary processes apply. How to stop members if the public from doing so? We try to cover up the gory stuff and keep them away. I have been traumatised at an accident scene by the frantic arrival of the deceased’s sobbing hubby, who had been told about her prang by a well-meaning passer-by. Sure makes it harder for first responders. Even worse is the wrong people being told their loved one has been in an accident. This can happen if a driver was using someone else’s ID. A case of this caused a family member, as a police person, years of agro when he did a death knock at the wrong household.
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    That bluddy high instrument panel would undo any visibility advantage of the relatively short, sloping nose.
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    OME you perhaps should add that those pix and footage should be strictly kept off social media. I bet you’ve seen too often how family members have heard about an accident the wrong way. I sure have.
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    Spot on test, Mike! My car has superior suspension and larger diameter wheels, so should give a smoother ride than my plane at 70km/m landing speed. I have only been able to test a couple of potential landing grounds with my car, but the ride has been ruff-as-gutz! Smooth-looking paddocks might knock hell out of your plane.
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    I was actually more interested in what happened in ‘09. Regarding this recent tragedy, you seem to be on the money. I’ve seen more thorough safety briefings before an amateur road race. I suspect this event will lead to a tightening of the rules. It could have been far worse: although they seem to be strict about not overflying the crowd, much of their flight path is over suburbia.
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    Captain it’s good to see you back on the forum. I’ll defer to your greater experience of Americans. Maybe you could comment on what you think is behind the amazing behaviour described by Dan Gryder.
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    PM, just watching that hairy Greek bloke on Auntie: Gardening Oz is showing the Kyneton Dafodil Festival. Were you one of those blokes in costume?
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    Amazing that things could get so out of hand, but we have to realise the complexity of American jurisdictions and the prejudiced approach so often taken by their officials. Another depressing aspect is the apalling level of ignorance among many Americans given a gun and a badge. I believe 54% of Canadians have a Uni degree but a similar proportion of Americans can barely read at a primary school level.
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    My only experience in a Warrior was getting a lift in one that followed a group of Jodels on a tour in NZ. The pilot impressed me by getting into some very short, rough strips.
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    You mean the Stuka siren? Maybe we need to fit those.
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    Lucky to not collect a golfer. An aircraft gliding in may not be noticed by unsuspecting people on the ground. Some have been killed by beach landings. I believe every aircraft should carry some sort of horn/siren to clear people or wildlife out of their way.
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    Mine does. We built in the early 80’s, applying simple design ideas widely promoted in that post-energy crisis era. The result is a passive solar house that uses a tiny fraction as much energy as our neighbours. I’ve spent forty years and quite a bit of money promoting these simple design ideas to people who plan on building…with absolutely ZERO SUCCESS! It’s utterly frustrating how many visitors have admired our solar home and been impressed by it’s performance…and then mortgaged their life to have a standard, suburban brick veneerial plonked down on their block, facing the street, no matter where the bluddy sun tracks! Much later, some complain that the searing summer sun comes into their house. Old-fashioned thinking; not long ago critics claimed steam trains could never go faster than a horse. Wind-powered craft Can be faster! https://www.autoevolution.com/news/sailing-champion-to-break-the-wind-powered-land-speed-record-of-126-mph-with-a-new-craft-182227.html
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