Old Koreelah

I got extremely lucky and found a wonderful woman who not only puts up with me, but even improved me. It did take her 36 years. After all that effort she reckons she may as well stick with me.

...enough reason alone for John Cleese to be knighted

Don't mention Americans, with all due respect. First they change the spelling to suit themselves (centre to center, litre to liter, theatre to theater, gaol to jail, etc.), hold televised spelling competitions like sporting events, then mispronounce words (aluminium - alyou-miny-um as aloom-inum).

[ATTACH=full]31609[/ATTACH]Had a little get together with a few like minded individuals at YQDI today for a BBQ lunch. Wore out my copilot she fell asleep on our way home (we took half an hour to do the 3nm trip:wink: taking the scenic route. (Ok past the werris creek coal mine shouldn't get called the scenic route lol.)

This reminds me of a time when I was designing semi trailers which look simple but are quite complex when you are starting from a blank sheet.I would be drawing and working the scale rule and drawing, and the workshop foremen were coming in looking over my shoulder and writing down the dimensions as soon as I put them on the drawing, and giving them to the welders. There was no time for an Oh Sh$t moment, or redrawing. If I made a mistake I had to adapt the design, and I often had to move to a different part of the drawing for a foreman who wanted to order steel, or set up some components.....with him patiently looking over my shoulder - not a word, just patient waiting.

That was some pressure...

...a small australian produced engine which is still a major player in our RAA market despite the issues

...I also don't know what a "dangling participle" is, but it sounds painful.

Does it really matter ? If the first and last letter is correct anyone can still reed it

A brilliant bit of language from Stephen Fry- and I didn't see a single error in spelling or grammar.

I can think of better places to do those sort of manoeuvres than over the Blue Mountains!

...What's the next lesson Ok?

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The "Red Devil" was brought back by Captain Harry Butler after WW1. He ran an airmail service from Minalton to Adelaide. he crashed another plane in 1922 and later died from his injuries. The Red Devil was restored by Aviation Services at Parafield and now has its own display building on the edge of Minlaton (population 1000). It is on a road to nowhere so unless you go looking for it ( my grandfather came from Minlaton) you are unlikely to find it by accident.

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While we're stealing the thread...the least visited historic aeroplane in Australia must be the Sopwith monoplane at Minlaton on the Eyre Peninsular.[ATTACH=full]31572[/ATTACH]

For those who have a few moments to check what they have written before posting, but may be confused about the correct spelling:

Your aeroplane (ownership)

You're giving me the sh1ts! (Shortened version of "you are")

Yaw the aircraft to the left (turn with rudder)

There is the airfield (where)

Their new aeroplane (ownership, as in "heir")

They're flying too low (shortened version of "they are")

An Apostrophe is used for ownership (Jabiru's most popular model)

-but is not needed to make the plural of the word (Several Jabirus flew over...)

Quite a good little plane.

Quiet, keep the noise down.

Practice (like ice, is a noun)

Practise (the verb)

Buy some new tyres

If by some chance you should read this...

Braking to slow down the plane.

Breaking the speed limit

It's- a shortened version of "it is"

This plane lives in its own hangar. (Ownership)

There she sits, forgotten in a lonely glass case. Bypassed by expressways and never glimpsed by most travellers. Visited a few times per day by the faithful.

Why is this country's most famous aircraft not housed in the centre of Brisbane Airport, so that every traveller sees it?

It has been determined that it was a dodgy engine with dodgy maintainers and dodgy pilot and poor engine design.

I heard Ian Bent is working on cowl mods to keep it all much coolerStay tuned

Seriously, though, most cowls try to force cooling air out the bottom into a high pressure zone. Much easier if it exits into a low pressure area, like above the leading edge of the wing.

Victa, what a godawful looking aircraft, at least you can see where the design for the lawn mower came from..........................

Awesome, fm. Loved the music and the footwork, but it seems you were having too much fun to watch out for the Hun in the sun!

Can you still buy a car that doesn't have a working fuel gauge?

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Big drug driving blitz in Maitland on Wednesday. 40 tested 21 failed for weed and MDA.

Trouble there is, at the moment (as far as I know) what is being done is scanning the paper docs. Unless they're using a very sophisticated OCR programme to turn those into text (and in my experience, OCR is extremely haphazard at recognising text unless it's all in one font, which it won't be), that makes the records unsearchable...

But then again, this is Australia.

They fought for 50 years, 1895 to 1945 on and off.

Let's not turn the RAA into a make work project.

You may be onto something there, at the bottom of the WIKI link it says that the Japanese used them post WWI.