Old Koreelah

That’s pretty much what I do, except for running it dry of fuel. I almost never turn off my fuel and don’t have a problem with AvGas in the bowl for months. 
I presume you let the engine cool down before you turn it with the prop. I’m always wary of a hot glowing bit of AvGas deposit causing it to fire.

58 minutes ago, Jase T said:

... My father was seconded to the RAF from the RAAF down there when they were letting off the big ones. He has so many stories about life in the camp down there. About the "Australian ingenuity" that went into making it liveable within the "Very British" regulations they had to follow.  I want to fly down, have a good look around form the air, land and go over what's still there from the camp...

At risk of thread drift, how many of us are drawn to retrace the journeys of our fathers? I know next to nothing about what mine did in the 40s. A couple of place names are all I ever got out of him.

4 hours ago, M61A1 said:

Did you sling the Avon over your back for 20 000 K? 😁

No way; the Roadrunner gave mobs better mileage than the Best of British: Dunlop K-81s (AKA as TT-100s).

In Peter Steven’s Shop I closely inspected the very Avon Roadrunner that won the 1975 Castrol 6-Hr Race. It had enough tread left for someone to ride the race bike back to Melbourne.

7 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

OK you should know that admitting to committing a felony that is not as bad as others is no defence - you should have claimed undue persecution, in being singled out from a crowd ie why weren't all the other noise makers charged? (hinting that he police officer involved in your case had something against you personally)

You should have told me this sooner, Skip! Actually after I pointed out several inconsistencies in the Copper’s testimony (to give him some leeway, the case was heard months after the event) the Magistrate gave me the minimum fine. Probably a bargain for over an hour of education in court procedure.

6 hours ago, M61A1 said:

Probably wasn't the exhaust noise they were worried about....Most likely the screeching rear tyre and smoke  while OK was doing donuts out the front of the cop station🤣

I protest my innocence!

As a paid-up Greenie my conscience would never allow me to waste rubber and petrol!

(Except on the Bruxner and Oxley Highways, Putty Road and Oran Park Raceway, where I could still get 20,000km out of an Avon Roadrunner.)

On 30/10/2020 at 6:32 AM, turboplanner said:

... I've never seen a cop show the slightest interest in stopping a Harley for excessive noise, or even taking action against Harley dealers for fitting the illegal pipes.

Spot on, Turbs! That’s been my experience for forty years, yet I was was booked for noise in 1974 on my bran new Ducati.

I lost the case in court because it was “undue noise”, even though I told the magistrate that even at full throttle, my stock standard 72 dB Silentiums made less noise than the many Harleys idling thru around town-with impunity-with mufflers removed.

On 13/05/2020 at 3:12 PM, M61A1 said:

This used to be on the back of the main door at 482 SQN Field Training Flight at Amberley in the eighties.

It has stuck with me all those years.

My brother was there too and passed that poem on to me.

On 16/10/2020 at 6:22 AM, pmccarthy said:

I think the facts are in the report. Professions Australia is a reputable lobby group.

“...a reputable lobby group”

Is that not a contradiction in terms? 

1 hour ago, Flying Binghi said:

If you want to flow the ever changing ‘entity’ of old china to now I’d suggest it is now called Taiwan. From the old china of despots to the free Democracy of today. 

I doubt the Beijing government would agree; they insist that all territory (including a vast swathe of seabed) that was once part of their empire is now Chinese territory. 

1 hour ago, Flying Binghi said:

The terror state that is now called china thinks its own citizens are to stupid to live in a free democracy. So much for the communist ‘ideals’...

We agree on that, FB. Despite all the cheerful CCP rhetoric about respecting and protecting the many ethnic minorities across China, they are doing nasty things to any group that presents any possible challenge to the dominance of the Party- or of the Han majority.

“Tremble and Obey”, the attitude in Imperial times may still apply.

5 hours ago, RFguy said:

... check how easy it to tip the plane on its mains, -  by pulling down on the tail tiedown point , nose wheel off the ground ?

ahh tailwheel - hmm dunno.  maybe check how heavy the tail is by same way - pick up the tail ?

It amazes me that some bright spark hasn’t produced a reliable cockpit aid that uses pressure on undercarriage to compute actual CoG. 

1 hour ago, cscotthendry said:

Quoting Breitbart ..... hmmm
The only thing that would damage a posting's credibility more would be quoting Qanon
Kind of like quoting The Betoota Advocate

Unkind to that fine SW Queensland newspaper!

12 hours ago, Flying Binghi said:

...I think what is overlooked here is that the ‘china’ of today is not the china of century’s past. The current ‘entity’ that is called china has only existed for 70 odd years...

China as an entity has existed for thousands of years-many times longer than Western nations. Who governs The Middle Kingdom has changed several times; the current Emperor doesn’t seem to be repeating the isolationist policies of his predecessors, which resulted in China being bypassed by progress.

2 hours ago, Flying Binghi said:

 

Why then, if china invented certain things, were it the West that advanced with these ‘Chinese’ technologies ? 

Whole books have been written on this subject, but my understanding is that China was technologically and economically far ahead of Europe until the 16th century, when many Chinese innovations were adopted in the west, leading to revolutions in the arts, science, then industry.

When the king of England possessed half a dozen books (that he probably couldn’t read) in Beijing and other great cities, a thriving intelligentsia had 600 novels in print. 

As the west advanced, China entered a period of stagnation (not unlike what seems to be happening in Europe today). The ensuing political chaos allowed aggressive European nations like Britain to forcibly set up trading enclaves in China- a humiliation the Chinese will not easily forget.

11 minutes ago, cscotthendry said:

The thing that really troubles me is how most of the Republican party have become a Trump cult...

The party of Abraham Lincoln has totally lost its moral compass.

Hopefully the voter will punish their breathtaking hypocracy and pursuit of power at any cost.

17 hours ago, onetrack said:

... the Chinese have blatantly stolen every Western technological patent, idea, or product, refusing to recognise patents and registered designs and trademarks...

Very true OT, but the Chinese might say that, in the broad sweep of history, this is justified. Many of the inventions and technologies that allowed the West to rapidly advance were stolen or borrowed from China.

17 hours ago, onetrack said:

As to Trumps claims for major economic success... any steps the U.S. President takes to encourage economic directions or benefits, usually don't appear for a considerable period after his decisions are made (up to a couple of years) due to the lags in implementation, manufacturing lags, and slow and conservative decision-making, in corporate boardrooms.

Quite true; politicians like to take the credit for progress due to their predecessors.

17 hours ago, onetrack said:

 

1 hour ago, pmccarthy said:

...I would like to get a re-weigh any weigh 🙂 as it hasnt been done for 30 or 40 years.

Something we should all do; aeroplanes rarely get lighter over time.

3 minutes ago, Flying Binghi said:

 

Hmmm... Then how do you explain all the incredibly wealthy people in China ?

 

 

 

 

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Their wealth has been built on rapidly-expanding manufacturing which is based on education, services and administration infrastructure built and paid for by government.

Show me ANY place that propers without sufficient government-provided services- all of which depend on taxation.

1 hour ago, old man emu said:

...but what we forget is that the Americans have a different mindset when it comes to social security matters. That mindset is that the USA is the land of opportunity, and if you don't strive to make the most of your opportunities, your poor life is your own fault. While the Americans applaud philanthropy at all levels, they don't want to be required to make regular payments from their own pockets to support a social security system similar to ours or many other countries. To them, that smacks of Socialism, or worse, Communism...

What those people fail to realize is that their “land of opportunity” was built on government services paid for by taxes.

The super rich needed the underfunded public education system to provide employees and a mass market for their products, the roads, pipelines, water supplies and drains their comfy lifestyle depends on. Taxes pay for the legal system that protect the rich from America’s increasing numbers of dispossessed and desperate poor.

Across America and across the world, wherever people aren’t paying taxes you find run-down services, decay and poverty.
Kerry Packer and the rest of the tax-dodging class would be in real trouble if the rest of stopped paying our taxes.

5 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

... could his inaction had cost more lives? He withdrew troops from Syria and that has since escalated with a higher rate of civvie losses than before. It was also seen as a betrayal of the Kurds - assumed to be supported by the US to be left alone against a far mightier foe...

Good point, Jerry. A bit like the little old lady driver who can claim she has never had an accident- but has caused plenty.

The long term effects of any President’s actions won’t be clear for years. Who knows what massive conflict Obama may have forestalled?  Who knows what future war will result from Trump’s withdrawal from the Middle East and betrayal of the Kurds. We are already seeing smaller powers moving into the vacuum left by departing US forces. Turkish involvement in Libya and the Horn of Africa is just one result of Trump signaling that the US is no longer interested.

Trump’s recent peace deals with Israel sound too much like Neville Chamberlain’s “peace with honor” deal with Hitler which sold out the Czechs but did nothing to stop the expansion of Nazi Germany. 
This time it’s the long-suffering Palestinians who got sold out. I doubt that will make real peace any more likely.

49 minutes ago, Flying Binghi said:

Oh, Dear. Poor old Trump. Quiet the villain apparently. Not sure just what he has actually done, though he’s a villain...🙂

 

Meanwhile, the son of Biden has been doing some cocaine and a little well paid wheeling and dealing under the auspicious of the seal of the then Vice President and it has all come out now... except, apparently facebook and twitter dont want yer to know about it...

FB I don’t know it these allegations are true, but this pales beside the monumental corruption of the Trump family.

it is on the public record that Trump and his family are milking the US taxpayer for everything they can- while avoiding paying tax themselves.

Donald Trump has told over 20,000 lies so why would you believe anything he says?

(No it ain’t Fake News, cos if it was, the thin-skinned baby would have sued the Washington Post and many other respected news sources.)

Left the wheel chocks attached to the U/C?

2 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

Really? The LNP gave away Cohuna?

The feds gave airports to local government; we’ve all seen how much they valued them.

2 hours ago, facthunter said:

Never ending attacks on rural airfields. Essential to have in emergencies and an asset for any town that's a bit away from major centres...

Years ago our Federal government gave away control of these vital community assets.

Another monumental blunder by the Liberal National Party coalition.

9 hours ago, facthunter said:

... that's why you see ignition timings of around 35 degrees before TDC common and 28 on aviation motors with dual ignition. You retard these for starting or the engines will kick back. Nev

Having no retard mechanism, Jabs need to spin over 270 rpm to fire (unless you have the Cold Start kit fitted).

So what exactly is happening when they get detonation?

On 28/09/2020 at 9:26 PM, Marty_d said:

Borrow a Mk9 Spitfire (after appropriate training, of course!) and depart from Duxford at Cambridge.

 

Track down the M11 to London, buzz Westminster and Buckingham Palace, fly under the Tower Bridge, then head east down the Thames to Margate.  Turn south, do a pass of the white cliffs of Dover, then east again over the channel to Dunkirk.  A pass over the long beach there, then down to Calais-Dunkerque airport.

 

That'd do me...

Marty you’d then have a few years to enjoy the memory: behind bars!