Old Koreelah

You have my attention... Why is a stealth jet mounted upside down outside a big hangar on a pylon?

36 years, Tomo. I got lucky and found the one woman who could put up with me (although she might dispute that).

Eventually, during life's tumbles, we knock corners and edges off each other. Makes life a little easier.

All the best.

Sorry OK - I saw this on another site and got all excited about it, didn't think to search for it on this one!Moderator... please remove this thread.

My Ducati had no head gaskets. Compression relied on a good overlap fit between head and barrel. Some of the sealing technology developed for Wankel rotaries might have been adapted to this engine.

...These people are those who don't believe a word they hear or read in the media, . . .but if they smell someone who they think ( wrongly in this case of course ) is in any way closely involved with the subject,. . .

It is our shame that one of our countrymen was a major cause of this decline.

Why do we have two threads on this engine?

http://www.recreationalflying.com/threads/the-duke-axial-engine.115231/

Good post, KG. A perspex model of this engine was demonstrated at Temora a few years back. Those innovative Kiwis again. Several axial engines were tried in the distant past, but advances in materials- particularly seals- might make this an idea whose time has come.

...When flying into the sun you will see bugger all. Nev.

Anything that gives us even a subconscious sense of protection is a danger.

Even calling on CTAF is no guarantee you have been heard by traffic. You can't beat good old see and avoid.

Your smartphone ap is still a great idea, Nick; another danger to aircraft which is crying out for some smart ap is power lines.

This mystery just keeps getting deeper:

http://www.news.com.au/world/maldives-reports-sighting-of-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-as-search-effort-criticised/story-fndir2ev-1226858579129

...perhaps it was on it's way to Diego Garcia.

... shhhh l am turning 50...

Just read thru your entire thread, Bruce, Very impressed with your workmanship and innovations. I too have spent years stuck in the shed building and learned that it's easy to neglect the most important component of all: your flying skills. Are you keeping your hours up, especially in a similar aircraft?

... a semi-trailer - one of those ones with an expanding side arrangement such as the motor-racing fraternity use - that is equipped with both some 'office space' so that RAA can conduct member business on-site at various airfield-related events, and that also carries the infrastructure for holding things like RAA seminars, on-line conferences etc. . This gets trundled around to not just the Natfly event but to regional fly-ins organised by State RAA members. Adds a bit of pizzaz to regional fly-ins AND encourages members to fly-in and become more familiar (for those, such as me, who would like a bit of a learning-curve before heading off to Natfly for the first time) with a busier sky situation. and the locals who come out for a gander at all the little airplanes get to see a 'professional' level of administration etc., which can't do RAA any harm at all.Once upon a time, whole orchestras would go on tour around a region, bringing 'culture' to those unable to get to the capital city. Very popular. Art shows go on tour to regional galleries. And with a great big, nicely-painted up trailer with RAA emblazoned on it, a lot more advertising bang-for-the-buck than just one building on one airfield perpetually.

Thank you Oscar for developing this idea. The "movable feast" going on the road is possibly the best way to save and grow our association- by involving many members who always felt distanced from the RAA-whether physical or otherwise.

I discovered it's not really meant to be a hand-held still camera. It's a good video cam but the picture is very wide-angle. I want to be able to review all instrument readings while testing and haven't quite got the settings right yet or found the best mounting point.

The longest the battery has lasted is about 100 minutes. They said it could be charged while recording (which some others can't). What they didn't tell me was you have to remove the tiny little flimsy-looking camera from its robust housing to plug in a charging cable. Apparently "skeleton" cases are available to allow this.

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Awesome photos! After my trip to Qld for the Clifton Fly-In the previous weekend, last Saturday was a 35-minute hop over the Liverpool Range for morning tea at Middlebrook Station. The strip is north-south in the lee of a ridge off the main range. Mild northerly caused what the locals would call minor turbulence, but it was rough enough to cause me a bounce and go-around. (Flying mainly in the flat open country west of the range has made me a bit soft.) Met some very experienced aviators with plenty of stories to tell. Among the aircraft was a super cub with insanely large tyres. Sorry didn't take any pix.

I crossed the Liverpool Range twice at the weekend. Gentle uplift from the northerly airstream created a layer of small cu's which abruptly stopped at the crest of the range. I was wary of rotor effects from air pouring over the top, but turbulence was pretty mild on Saturday. I have met a couple of older blokes who have been rolled sideways in that rotor; their main problem was deciding whether to fight it or continue with the roll until right-side up.

So true, Dafydd. Most old met. texts were northern hemisphere-based with much irrelevant stuff like warm fronts and occluded fronts. No wonder most of us switched off.

A beautiful spectacle of nature; until the blighters roost in their millions next to your house!

"Ask and you will be answered". Despite being an Apple Disciple (those of us who stuck with Apple products thru the lean times) I must grudgingly agree with much of the criticism. Apple still has the edge in quality, but they have lost their moral compass.

Apple once stood for innovation and design excellence. Now it's just about obscene profits.

They have become all that we despised in Bill Gates' Microsoft. Had Steve Job lived a few more years beyond seeing his little company become the world's richest, maybe he too would have mellowed and done something worthwhile with his fortune.

... The forecasts are not always reliable either... Nev

Yep Nev, I was familiar with all that. I just hadn't ever noticed the anomalies mentioned. The implications for little aeroplanes are that when planning a flight we shouldn't extrapolate local conditions across a region. Setting a cruise height clear of clouds locally may take you into them an hour later.

Sure sounds like a hijacking. However, I wonder whether anybody has estimated the odds of an airliner being hit by a meteorite. One the size of a golf ball might well disable the electronics of everything aboard, I would imagine, considering the possible electrical charge of something passing through the ionosphere at meteorite velocity . . . Has to happen sooner or later . . .

Actually, the longer this goes on, the more like the Stinson mystery it becomes. Lack of info brings out lots of rumours and wild leads which distract authorities.

Perhaps one or more of the pilots got an offer too good to refuse from Kim Jong Un, disabled all tracking devices and headed to the workers' paradise north of the 39th parallel.

Can't find a special category for this thread, so here goes. I flew to Clifton last weekend and thought I knew a bit about clouds.

I found a cumulus cloud forming almost 1,000 feet below the local cloud base. First time I've seen that.

On the way home on Sunday, cloud base west of YWCK was about 7,000'. Half an hour further south near YIVL it was over 8,500.

I also learned that trying to climb over an apparently thin layer of scattered cu's is a good way to waste a lot of fuel. With the sun behind you, the depth of clouds up ahead is not apparent and they often extend way beyond 10.

I also learned that later in the day, after cu's have completed most of their vertical development, they shade the earth and flying under them can be pretty smooth.

We're ... - being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century - but I have an aversion to Apple so would prefer a Samsung or similar.

Just happened on this unique record of a night-bombing raid. Understated British commentary and lots of technical details. Gripping and sober, the mood wasn't spoiled by a brief sighting of an Eric Idle look-alike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-cVw7Xb6Nk