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China is sorting out their supply chain
turboplanner replied to danny_galaga's topic in Aircraft General Discussion
I can remember Bex - r- better saying much the same thing in his frustration with us, and it’s interesting that two giant Chinese retailers already have warehouses and retail outlets in most States of Australia, delivering our internet orders sometimes same day. I have two memories of their abilities. In one case a former boss of mine went to China and set up a plant to make panels which resulted in a very successful business. A Chinese official came to his factory a couple of years later and said “We’re building a free way through here, we’re going to move you there (about 20 km away), what design do you want for your new factory. In Australia this would lead to a digging in 5-year process, trifling compensation etc. They said they were paying for the new factory and all transfer costs, so he accepted the deal, got a newer, bigger, more productive factory and today is worth upwards of $20 million. The other case was when the South Korean cars started chewing into General Motors’ Holden sales in Australia. The Button plan ensured that local manufacturing couldn’t compete, so around 2004 the Director of Finance at Holden was sent to China to set up and build a Carline for Holdens to beat the South Koreans. By the time he had it part built, GM realised the new middle classes of Chinese business owners had started building McMansions to live in and China had become a Car country as against people in blue overalls and riding bikes, and took over the line to build Cadillacs in much bigger volumes than Australia could sell Holdens. This is one of the early promotional activities in Shanghai in 2011 Cadillac Stunt Drivers Shanghai - link GM went into a joint venture with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) They build a factory with 160,000 capacity per year. Cost was $122 billion. It’s the only plant in China to achieve 100% automated welding. It has one line for steel bodies and another line for all-aluminium bodies (with laser brazing). SAIC – GM produced 673,007 Chevrolet/Buick/Cadillac in China in 2024. Since 2017 China has been Cadillac’s biggest market -
......spending a happy happy hour with various Mongol chicks who slavishly follow the hairstyles and dress codes of Melbourne in the sixties. Not many people know that Harry was sent by the Australian government to Mongolia to stop the Domino effect which would have seen Australia a communist country; it was that important. Of course it also stopped the trouble-making, sniping and chick marauding in Canberra too. When the sub landed at Khalkhin the Dominos had reached the town and were being fought off by descendants of Ghenghis Khan and two CIA operratives, Cappy and Turbo, the two leaders shown in the background of the photo. The Dominoes were just about to break through when................
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.......go through the warm-up checks with .....The Right Horourable throttle set, etc. followed by ......
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China is sorting out their supply chain
turboplanner replied to danny_galaga's topic in Aircraft General Discussion
Electic motors are ideal for producing very high speeds. In the 1960s we raced insanely fast slot cars; Pylon RC Aircraft racing has been popular for many years. It's based on the Torque x rpm = horsepower relationship; spin the motor faster and exponential brake horselpower is generated. However there are two militations; one is heat and the other is the rule exponentially more power demanded = exponentially shorter battery. 1/4 mile Drag Racing is an application where we are starting to see some battery powered cars. -
......ensured there were no Pbreacks required on the journey, or Cappy whine "How far is it to the next stop all day. The only problem was the drop tank's lugs which were prone to sticking and would let the drop tank go .......
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..........trust he had built up with Cappy. During a prawning trip he'd met up with an Indonesian trawler Captain, Solly Wesi who ran, as a sideline an "import/export business" Solly pointed out to bull the benefits of buying on the high seas, where there were no taxes and selling on high seas near Australia where there were no duties. I f the products were assisted to get on the Indonesian boat, rather than bought and even paid to do so there was a big wad of cash to be shared by the two trawler skippers. Knowing deals like this could turn nasty, bull hired Cappy for security. Cappy knew the normal military rifles were inaccurate on small vessels due to the constant rolling, so he took his gold plated Under and Over skeet gun and a case of SGs. All went well for three months and they were rolling in money, but the Australian Coastguard had picked up from a gossiping poster on WF that "some" people were about to buy themselves new, top of the range LSA aircraft from Romania. Weipa was the go to port smugglers went to and also the base of Sergeant Shane Track, Commonwealth Police, who was embedded there as a beachcomber but didn't seem to be very successful. He drank everyone under the table and went home every night with a diffferent chick. Owing a Drifter, his ears pricked up at the latest WFgossip, and he was fishing on the wharf when bull's trawler came in. He noticed the smell of a particular stinky cigar wafting from the boat. A week later it was his stint on the Coastgard boat out of Darwin, and they accosted various Torres Strait Islanders, inspecting their fish catch and fining them for any under-length. Oddly none of their boats carried the Australian Torres Island flag. This flag shows the back end of a bull (not our bull), so people should have been aware the flag was a joke. And every one of them swore they were not Austrasians, had never been there, and living 400 metres off PNG, were never likely to go there because PNG paid a lot more. They argued they were not under Australian jurisdiction. Just then, a trawler appeared over the horizon, and bull deployed his nets quickly. As the Coastguard boat "Harold Holt" drew near, the Captain hailed bull and asked how the fishing was going. "the xxxxx all seem to have gone out into the xxxxxxx indian ocean" replied bull, trying to appear innocent. Everything looked OK and the Coastguard boat was pulling away. "WAIT!" yelled the Sergeant. He could smell that stinky cigar smoke wafting across from the old gentleman who looked to be a tourist, but who was watching him with the intent of a .......................
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.....fill out the need for dirty jobs like Park Rangers, Meter Maids, CASA FoIs, and lifetime University students. Then they all started fighting among themselves and as a Nation we had to plead with all the former workers, to come back to work and stand round the Coffee machine, or play politics so the other oldies would give up working at home and come back to join in.
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..........at this time of the year Darraweit Guim grew grass which was used to feed the stock, but it attracted all the bunnies from the poorer districts and slums like Daylesford and Kyneton and it was quicker to do the 600 second tap than try to herd them up and transport them to a wildlife shelter. The only downside was the terrible smell, but it wasn't much different to that side of the city and CT could get away with it every year. Keen architects will notice that the outbuildings were designed by Sir Percy Cook, with his artistict flair that not one building lines up with another, not one road is straight, and the road from the living quarters to the church has a long rectangular shape to allow walkers plenty of time to think up plausable excuses in their confessions. Clearly immigrants have infiltrated the area based on that dirt short cut. The Church still shows signs of the 1930s Depression when it was converted to a four-stand shearing shed, when wool was ..........
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.......the most posts on how to fly when you're ................... Willie came to Melbourne and the concert before interval was what we were expecting, but the concert after interval clearly belonged to the group talking to themselves, trying to play guitars and making odd noises.
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........up the Khyber as they advanced. This sustained exercise and the Chinese herbs fixed the problem although not without extreme pain. Turbine Aviation later sold this as an accessory for Thruster pilots with the tag line .......land like a feather; you have to! It wasn't the first time Chinese medicines had been used by AUF flyers...........................
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.........hand to soften up the troops as they did up the Khyber, although it would help if the British Army had deployed a year earlier. That was a long year for Cappy and Turbo, even with the odds at 25 to 1, and ..........
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........charging Mao Tse Tung $350 per night. "I know he doesn't eat or drink and he leaves the place tidy, but it's the principle; Chinese (other than our mate Xi) have to pay..........
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......take control of the situation by pointing out the Wrath of God would be aimed at Mao and any of his side-kicks on earth. Of course Cappy's mate was one of these and he was currently staying with - Turbo, OT and Cappy. This was one of those situations where you can't lose thought Turbo, but ........