turboplanner

......tension in the ..................

Mount Everest and K2, and Cappy couldn’t resist .......

...assets.

Cappy, aided by the gin fell forward and his nose.........................

hell broke loose when they joined in the chorus with some fruity Australian adjectives. Justin was mortified but that only made things worse and Cappy with a few gins under the belt (but not much else) decided to do a strip to "The Tennessee Waltz". You'd think there would be no equivalent to the foul-mouthed Mavis from Bone, but you'd be wrong and out from the audience stepped ........................

.......left nostril and puffing the smoke out of his right nostril, as he told stories about the War.

We know NES readers won't tell anyone but Justin was actuall Justin Cook, the son of Cappy and was staring to become popular in the hillbilly towns of Tennessee. Cappy was torn; wanting Justin to join the Corporations he owned and eventially take over from him, as well as not trash the Cook name.

There was a family fight and Justin changed his name to Mel McDaniel, and the rest is history.

One night in Knoxville Tennessee................................

Justin doing what made him famous.

......spoke with en excent end didn't cross their t's or .................

........gave it that 222 sound without the falling drub dealer thud and ..........

51 minutes ago, Captain said:

As a long serving, and sniffing, close mate of Turbo, I can confirm to out thousands of NESers that when his pong is sometimes brought to his attention he just resorts to the Turbine family solution/tradition of cutting the arse out of his dungarees, thereby keeping the flies away from his face.

Captain has raised an important part of Australia's history. There was a time when everyone did it. It was called crutching, and within a few years the process had been applied to sheep to prevent blowfly strike, which Turbo had battled with for years.

He had drawn the line at mulesing though.

.....Outhouse Darktown Rumblers.

Their new song "There is nothing like a dame" was aimed at the aero industry and the lyrics had the Medical Board of Australia up in arms, defending its Members, but the problem was they couldn't go to the newspapers with the words.

But when Cappy sings "I'm in love with a wonderful guy"  the 22 million LBQTIW Australians are brought to tears.

When CT saw the word Don Burrows, he couldn't resist joining the band, and he sang a trad version of Bali'Hai. 

When he sang:

"Your own special Island, your own special land" the audience were moved to tears, but became confused by the next line "Filled with a million furry bunnies........................"

1 hour ago, Jabiru7252 said:

Folks who don't indicate when leaving a round-a-bout should have their faces set on fire, then put out with a shovel.

Better carry matches and a shovel then; I'd see it a couple of times a year in Melbourne.

2 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

RossK

 

 RV 14 V Glasair G2

 

Wikipedia has the performance of the G2 way ahead of the RV - please explain?

 

I think the costing pretty much supports my observations of metal v composite (as does the Wikipediae  performance data)

I can't speak for Wikipedia, but in Wikitree anyone can input information. They're expected to note the source of the information, but not everyone does. Wikitree owns the information that's inputted so they can decide what's right or what's wrong, but the question is how. People can get their facts wrong, people can input their own bias, people can tell their own version of the story.  Wikipedia is a good quick reference, but always double check the facts if the information is important to you.

35 minutes ago, bushcaddy105 said:

Some roads were dropped from 110 to 100Kph. One local one was the Goyder highway from Crystal Brook to Gulnare. Caused a ruckus, until independent MP Geoff Brock made it an election platform to restore the status quo.

He won, and achieved his promise. Have to remember, though, SA's roads are all 100Kph UNLESS signed otherwise. The otherwise is usually only national routes.

While trying to find what I worked on I came across the news from a couple of weeks ago that from December 1, 2023, there will be a speed limit on SA beaches of 40 km/hr, and 25 km/hr within 50 metres of pedestrians.

That will kill Long Beach at Robe, and the Beachport Ocean Beach runs north to Robe and south which currently gives a boost to the coastal towns.

1 hour ago, spenaroo said:

added stress, less finances, less free time.

 

I have stopped flying because A.) I cant afford it. B.) I feel too stressed with work/home life

I have a "training flight" booked for my birthday this month -  it will just be to get up and fly around the coast with an instructor making sure I dont kill us both.

I know I'm not keeping up my skills.

and wouldn't be safe flying solo at the moment. haven't been up in 6 months

That's actually a good way to keep your interest until you get to the point where you can fly enough to pack back up on all the performance standards.

Another, more expensive way is to fly 20 mins - 30 mins per week.

27 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

why would that effect them, as in extra time on the road i guess.  

I went looking for the data; probably dropped the project when no SA country people (who'd appealed for assistance) wanted to make it a submission.

It may have been the July 2003 speed reduction on 1100 km of SA rural roads from 110 to 100.

10 km doesn't make a huge difference in trip time, but I remember looking at tradies who lived in Mount Gambier and were buiding hsoues in Penola, Robe, Bordertown etc. made a difference twice a day 5-7 days a week.

40 minutes ago, bushcaddy105 said:

Not just aviation. South Australia's road deaths so far this year are way above 2022 numbers, particularly motor cyclists. Significantly, the majority of country road deaths are of country drivers.

Did the government get around to introducing the new speed limits for country roads they were talking about a few years ago? I did some research on the effects it would have on South East business, and it was going to affect a lot of people like stock agents, and sales people.

Perhaps someone would be good enough to go on the RAA site and count the fatalities for 2022, and the 10 months of 2023 and then we'd know.

People have been reporting accidents in CA, RPT, and from around the world where flying in under different regulations, or pretty much no regulations, training is poor etc. none of it really relevant to our recreational aviation, so it might seem like a lot of accidents. The statistics went down to near zero during the covid years, and you would have to expect some increase with pilots who just went straight back into action without a graduated process, in aircraft which had been standing for two years.

Pre- Covid the RA average was about 10 per year in Australia, and we have two more moths to go before we'll know this year's figures.

3 hours ago, facthunter said:

BS. I know how hopeless the others are too. Nev

We don't need the leftist propaganda.

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

There's a lot of information been  revealed since 1968.  Nev

Yes, a lot of information has been revealed since 1968.

...and not all of it is as true as it was in the days of Camelot, so I'll see what I can find.

2 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Then you should use your education background to find out about the corruption that occurred within the United Nations around 1968, the invention of crisis events and the invention of global warming. 
 

 

About the result I expected.

It's sad that some people just will not check for the facts just sitting there.

8 minutes ago, facthunter said:

I just get sick of the constant attacks he has had to put up with. He's a bit nerdy but so what? IF you believe your last sentence, I can't help you. My education background is science based and I believe we are entering a crisis that will affect us all in a way that will DWARF all other issues we have or are likely to.  Nev.

Then you should use your education background to find out about the corruption that occurred within the United Nations around 1968, the invention of crisis events and the invention of global warming. 
 

2 hours ago, FlyBoy1960 said:

Well, my Tesla charges 100% from Solar Power. 

 

It is hooked into my solar panels through a charger called the ZAPPI. 

 

I have it set in eco-plus plus mode and it charges at about 8 kW when the sun is out. Since I have owned it I have never needed to pay for one cent of electricity!

A friend has one exact same unit but 3 phase in his work and it can charge at 22 kW because it is three-phase and has more cells. I am limited to single phase at home.

One day I will have to pay for energy if I travel to somewhere further than what I travel 99% of the time but for me now, this is the absolute best for my pocket and supposedly the planet.

Two things are critical when talking about charging and range; where the charge comes from, and how long it takes to charge the last 40%.

EV was sold on the commuter who trundles down to the railway station in the morning and back at night, charges it on single phase and does that within 60% charge. Power demand on the road is low, who no Airpower calc needed to be included, the car will be at 60% next morning so range doesn't come into it, annual distance is low, so total cost of life calcs don't have to factor in tyres and other wear components, and these people joined in every social media discussion telling us how good they were.

In your case you've reduced CO2 emissions by charging it with renewables.

The problems are emerging as people exceed the range, which is based on the immovable equation that if you need more power your battery will drain much faster, loads and trailers and high frontal areas, and inability to recharge in time for departure with single phase power, and for the Australian Grids the EV will be generating CO2 at the power station site,removing the whole plint of EV.

20 minutes ago, red750 said:

Pardon my for sidetracking for a moment, but I had a thoroughly disappointing day today. Our Men's Shed was closed as some members, including a co-ordinator, have Covid, so I thought I would enjoy a glorious sunny day and go to Lilydale airport, a place I haven't been in about 5 years.

 

There were a number of aircraft tied down in various states of neglect. On the flightline, there were three PA-28s, and three ex-Soar Aviation yellow Foxbats. A red and white Pitts Special, which I think had been performing aeros overhead, landed and taxied past the flying school. One of the PA-28's and one of the Foxbats started up, and after a short while, taxied to the holding point. They held there for a short while, waiting while another Foxbat came in, floated about halfway down the runway before landing. I didn't wait to see the others take off. So in the half hour or so I was there, four movements.

 

Then I drove to Coldstream, which was even more depressing. Only one PA-28 parked outside the clubrooms, and a partly disassembled Pier Aztec way down the back next to a hangar. Not a thing was moving.

 

Granted, it is Friday, and things may liven up tomorrow, but I thought there may have been a little more action.

I flew in there about 1986 and had lunch. No other movements at all then, so this is an improvement but perhaps activity lifts at the weekends.

8 hours ago, Student Pilot said:

There will be more ground to lease when the runways are closed. Bankstown has already ceased to be a general aviation airfield. There might be "movements" but that doesn't equate to a vibrant facility available to the public. It's only a matter of time, between greedy developers and an incompetent tone deaf regulator, GA is on a downward spiral. No matter how some try to justify the greedy antics and developer destruction of an airfield it is happening and it will destroy Bankstown as a GA airfield. Manipulation of statistics aside.

People should contact the management of an airfield if they have any concerns.

Movements aren't rabbits on the airfield or forlorn old farts walking up and down the footpaths; they are aircraft movements, just the same as there were aircraft movements on the day the airport opened last century.

Ben, only a few posts ago told us Bankstown May movements were 23,000 making it the second busiest airport in the country that month.

The movement units count is on the same basis all over Australia and Airservices published movement records from a lot of airports.

It's just that Companies are doing business in different ways that produce profits these days.

Someone might have been the best milkman in the district 50 years ago, but everyone gets their milk from the supermarket today.

10 hours ago, Arron25 said:

The ONLY part of an EV being pollution free is their claim on Zero Tailpipe emissions.

Good to see someone picking up on the hypocrisy of the EV Industry.

General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra, an Engineer and Mark Reuss President were the first to change their claims to be building "Zero Emission" Autos to "Zero Tailpipe Emission" after being advised that their EV emissions just transferred to the power stations recraging the batteries.

After some claims of Zero Emission on some trucks (in a State which was almost total renewables powered, I checked the US power generation State by State and found this was an exception, offest by a much larger coal-fired generation in industrial states which meant they went backwards with every new EV.  The latest US Energy Information Administration total for all 50 states is just 21% renewable energy generation, 39.5 Nuclear, so 60.5% of US power generation producing more CO2 to charge EVs than ICE emit.

In Australia, Brendan's post about an EV charging station powered by Diesel is being multiplied many times because regional Australia just doesn't get enough State Grid power to meet the fast charging demand.

10 hours ago, Arron25 said:

Hydrogen make this claim as well, but conveniently ignore the manufacture of the fuel.

Hydrogen stories are still vague and it was only recently that acronym HICE (hydrogen internal combustion engine) was introduced to separate it from Hydrogen Fuel Cell, two vastly different vehicles. HICE has to resolve the issue of static sparks, mobile phones, cigarettes at refilling stations, with some enthusiasts depicting a service station attendent "plugging in"  a sealed changeover box. Of Course the vessel wall thickness and size would be similar to CNG tanks, so a fork truck needed.

10 hours ago, Arron25 said:

The manufacture/ disposal  of the lithium batteries exceeds most new ICE pollution..(even Volvo grudgingly admitted this)

This is another factor which manufacturers don't seem to be pointing out. 

What is happening out on the roads is that not only have owners been discovering the life of around 10 years, but the replacement cost seems to be coming in much higher than the Leaf's $10,500.00 incl labour.

On top of that some people are reporting battery failures after driving through water. 

This is affecting resale value and insurance.

10 hours ago, Arron25 said:

Seems the modern diesel is only become so polluting since the introduction of the Californian pretend omissions induced AdBlue cxxp.. I have still to get an explanation of how wasting fuel in the raw 'burn' is somehow better for the environment.

That's not totally correct.

Engine emission equipment was introduced in Australia on the 1976 model cars. The emissions being controlled were NOx and Particulates; both cause cancers.

In 1979 I was flying out of Los Angeles sitting next to a US Supreme Court Judge. I leant across her to take a photo out of the window of the Los Angeles smog. She looked at me as if I was an idiot,  and said "What are you doing!; there's nothing out there! I explained that I was going to use that slide in presentations to Australian transport operators in trying to explain why, when operating past paddocks with just cattle and sheep beside the road for hundreds of miles to show it all started here. 

I was involved in the "Black Smoke" era in Victoria in the late 1980s where some police districts would have a car at the bottom of a hill, the trucks would come down with the throttle backed off and a cloud of black smoke would pour out as the climbed out of the valley. A handy fine would follow, and where those trucks were new and within warranty, I'd be given the bill for new injectors, new fuel pump etc. only to find the truck fined a week later, so in one of the districts we had a come to Jesus meeting with the manufacturer, operator, and police chaired by the local MP. The air was blue for some time, but I'd brought along a set of Ringleman charts, and we all agreed to adopt Ringelman 3. That gave us all a benchmark to allow newer trucks to operate, and allow the police to ping the trucks needing maintenance.

By 1992 I would have thought we were doing well, but the pressure came from Europe and California to eliminate NOx and diesel Particulates, so Australia introduced ADRs for them and our engines dropped down on power.

By around 2006 the regulations had tightened again, and engine manufacturers around the world came up with their own methods of further reducing NOx and PM (particulate matter). Caterpillar cam up with ACERT which required two turbochargers, but this was a blind alley and a few years later they opted out of the road industry. The US manufacturers went for exhaust gas recirculation to cook diesel particulates with a DPF diesel particulate filter for the stubborn ones. Europe went for SCR Selective Catalytic Reduction,  leaving the engines as they were (dirty) which retained full power, and injecting urea (AdBlue) into the exhaust downstream from the engine, which destroyed them.

Where we are today with emissions on new diesels is:

NOx :  reduced 99.4% since 1992

PM:     reduced 98.4% since 1992

Given that from 1976 to 1992 we had made substantial reductions, this is an exceptionally good result.

Vehicle emissions are a lot less that factory emissions where factory owners are allowed to average their emissions over a 24 hour period. With a vehicle you're on the clock when you turn the key.

So we get to CO2 emissions.

California was also at the front of driving CO2 reductions, even though they were unrelated to health. 

We have no CO2 figures for our cars and trucks, because CO2 is a byproduct of both the engine output and the fuel standard. Estimates, wild estimates and modelling can be used to tell a story.

10 hours ago, Arron25 said:

 

My 2010 Peugeot uses a DPF Fluid that melts the trapped particles without burning and wasting fuel  .. and I get 6/100 at 'my' driving style.

That sounds like SCR to me. Quite a few car models in Europe have it.

10 hours ago, Arron25 said:

 

I am looking forward to Bio Diesel to get rid of the reliance on oil. 

Bio Diesel is the same as LPG - can't meet the Emission standards of today.

10 hours ago, Arron25 said:

The ONLY part of an EV being pollution free is their claim on Zero Tailpipe emissions.

Hydrogen make this claim as well, but conveniently ignore the manufacture of the fuel.

The manufacture/ disposal  of the lithium batteries exceeds most new ICE pollution..(even Volvo grudgingly admitted this) and then most are charged from Thermal power stations  with very few utilising the much vaunted Solar or Wind... (which is just more of the pseudo pollution free' products). Seems the modern diesel is only become so polluting since the introduction of the Californian pretend omissions induced AdBlue cxxp.. I have still to get an explanation of how wasting fuel in the raw 'burn' is somehow better for the environment.

My 2010 Peugeot uses a DPF Fluid that melts the trapped particles without burning and wasting fuel  .. and I get 6/100 at 'my' driving style.

I am looking forward to Bio Diesel to get rid of the reliance on oil. 

3 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

So if you live in a regional area with these type of chargers would you call your car a Tesla diesel . 😁