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Cappy was doomed to the punishment of the "light" treatment of the "Gin" peoples referred to by some people as the "Gin Gin Light" Just as Cappy got the Thruster back under control, a bright green light flashed in his eyes. When he turned his head to avoid it, it moved to face him again and it hit his ...........

......... spinning around so fast that he couldn't tell whether he was going up or down. He'd been caught in one of Foxhunter's Willy Willys and it lifted him so high that he had to turn on the Oxygen. He'd nicked an oxygen bottle from the Bombay Goodness Hospital, or thought he had, but it was laughing gas, and when the Thruster extracted itself it zoomed down over central Bombay and scared the crap out of the citizens with the loud hysterical laughter, it ....................

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......... if he came across that Ace from Bombay, it might be just enough distraction. Cappy had climbed as close to the sun as he dared, which in his Military Thruster was 500 feet AGL, when .........

......fuselage and the German Cross on the starboard wing. He .........

...was careful to remind himself that a dark skinned native wearing camouflage at night was impossible to see unless you could get him to open his eyes wide; then the whites of his eyes gave him away. Turbo had trained him in this, teaching him to tell jokes as he walked along. The Natives could never stop themselves laughing. He also had to be careful not to take the head off Blu Tak, a friendly native who did no harm to anyone. Blu Tak owned an Opel Facet [avref]. As Cappy crept along, Kukri at the ready, he heard a fart. Immediately 24 eyes glowed white with laughter..........

.....'d observed that the natives had been restless a number of nights and in various films. The Tom Toms had been beating so late in the night lately that Cappy had had to get up and tell them to be quiet. This night was different; the cicadas had stopped, the Tom Toms had stopped and Cappy could hear the rain drops falling on the palm leaves out in the jungle. An eery green glow came from the path to the south and he could see flitting shadows of ..............................

.........load up goose shot. Not many people know what that is, even Cappy; its a set of bigger balls and is used to herd cattle in the NT. It's much safer than helicopters, and once a bull's had a whiff of goose shot he'll do anything you want. Cappy.......

1. Yes difficult to do with aircraft unless you cut the fuel, pull up to stop the prop and land deadstick, so much greater risk than running slightly lean or rich. You're looking for the colour at full power so another way to do it is on a dyno without a prop and I accept for RA tuning there's too much cost in that. 2. This discussion is not applicable to GA engines where there is a mixture lever based on adjusting to a combination of power and altitude, and the arguments on that go on forever, with some people blowing up motors trying to prove a point. 3. As you say the engine must be shut down immediately from full power for the colour method.

That's GA, and there have been thousands of posts on it on GA SM

.........made the mistake of discussing whether to enter by the front door or the back. Some said the front, others pointed out there was more cover around the back and the argument reached the tribal insult point and woke Cappy up from his dream. Turbo had long since gone back to his bunk. This gave Cappy enough time to fill the group with ball ammo, which ...........

..........tooth, and the last one in his mouth. He was nicknamed "Gummy" for a while, but late at night would pull out the Kukri and lay it on the table. After a day on the Bombay Gin he could be unpredictable so the "Gummy" name was quickly dropped. It was on one of those nights that...........

Agree, as someone who is a contender for taking out the most pistons in the country, I learnt the hard way. There's an acceptable risk-reward in Go Kart racing where the worst outcome is you'll roll to a stop and be busy machining a new for by next week, but the last thing you want to be doing is introducing piston seizures in the air. With petrol engines, reading the plug(s) to get that light brown colour is everything. With Methanol or Methanol-Acetone, it's designing for maximum power and cooling the combustion chamber with Methanol..

........Mementos from "The Pass" as it was known, including the notepaper where Cappy had had to write over and over again "I must not cower down just because a Ghurka lifted his head in the other trenches", and the Teddy Bear he kept under his pillow and .........

I hadn't heard that one. The new model releases by GM to the Dealer Network were conjured up and run by the Advertising Agency. Years later they set up the release function down at Lang Lang took the dealers down in coaches, and after a short preamble about how the model was going to beat Ford a helicopter could be heard in the distance. It dropped a Falcon in front of the viewing platform allegedly from 500 feet to cheers of the assembled dealers. The Agencies had to create spectacular events, but were not engineers. The all time winner was International Harvester's Agency release at the Chevron Hotel on the Gold Coast, at that time the go to hotel on the coast. It was the ACCO A with an all-new cab, so they had to do something spectacular. They paid to knock a hole in the ball room wall, built a platform outside (money was no object for new releases) papered over the wall and craned the truck up to the platform (all of that was engineered) The object was for the intro music to rise at the end of the presentation, a truck would be heard starting up outside, it would burst through the wall and the driver would hit the brakes on the ballroom floor inches from the front row. They practised over and over again until the driver had the count and burst through the paper and stop on a chalk line every time. On the night before the event an agency guy thought the seating area looked too spartan so they brought in a carpet for the floor. Everything went well until the driver braked. The carpet slid over the floor and the truck went into the first two rows of dealers, pushing them back into the row behind. Luckily no one was hurt.

.........circle customers. In the beginning when it was only Cappy shooting he was missing most of the unders, so the tablets had the sporting chance so ingrained in the clay target community, and merchants would pick up the fragments of overs and take them back to their homelands where proto-archaeologists (sorry for the big word) would piece some of them over time. One day Nebuchadnezzer II came through the clay-station and said to Turbo "What's this about a man from Nicaea being able to fly like a bird.?" Turbo, who was in the process of quietly buying the patent from Icarus Recreational Aviation Inc, despite the fact that old Ic had flown up near the sun and melted the wax on the feathers, changed the subject and looking bored, said, "I sent out a Circular Tablet (Circular for safety messages) but those XXXXXX Philistines must have broken it." Neb II like many, decided Turbo was just kidding for fame, and tramped home, built a Recreational Aircraft with clay, feathers and wax, and that's all we have to say about Neb II. Meanwhile Turbo had quietly walked his camel out of the village in the night and headed for the country of the Araldites. The West Araldites had been making recreational aircraft using a sticky sap from the ASAP tree but it also melted, and there were a lot of fatalities. The East Araldites had seen these flying and quietly photographed one during the night. Arald Aphrodites, the leading builder lost his life when his adhesive melted and Turbo was able to buy the design from the family for three shekels. Turbo as we know from the Cat Farm invention was a deep thinker. "I wonder what would happen if I mixed East Araldite wax with West Araldite wax?" And that, dear NES readers is the history of Araldite C:turbineglue 57BC still used today in.................

NES readers will notice about halfway up from the bottom and just to the right of centre, a recessed circle which Turbo drew freehand when he was 13. It marks the start of a Quatrain "The boy stood on the burning deck, a pocket full of crackers, a spark went down his trouser leg and blew off both his"... and that's the edge of the tablet. ..............Ben did that has had people scratching their heads for years, and one day we may ........

...."came out" as a male. Not many people know that Bletchley Park was the beginning of Women's Lib; it took decades to catch on because they all spent their time gossiping instead of breaking codes; Ben was brilliant but in a weak moment showed them the algorithm to beat men, and that wrecked it for everyone. Why......... NES reader will have noted Cappy's instant recognition when Turbo occasionally drops into his ancestral language; he's like a seagull on a potato chip.

A. In-an-engine-we-are-assessing-less-fuel=less-power. B. On another engine, say a "modern injected 2 stroke outboard" with its fraction of fuel - if it's given less fuel there will be less power.

Less fuel = less power. That's acceptable in many stationary engines, but usually an aircraft is looking for more power.

...they all turned to each other and started saying "We didn't realise that" Eventually with sone prodding........

"Crappy turned and said "A pox on you Ahlox (Shakespearref), for while I am prepared to grant you a conditional coffee-drinking & flying mateship, I cannot entertain attacks on the TurgidPlonker even if he isn't entertaining." This is the Riverinan, magnificent in his generosity, defends his friends to the death, but always watch for that smack when the tail goes past. As old pilot from Sydney once said "They've got the personality of a pieballed camp drafter!"

.........dropping in to his Captain Cook authoritative voice...........Goldylox could see a four hour sermon coming up and he was busy trying to fit crossover pipes to the latest RFS trucks which was all sirens and no drive wheels. So he started to talk about the Bombay days. As some of us know to our cost, Loxy is a rabid researcher. Nothing escapes him. He even found out Turbo when in Primary school had tied his girfriend's knickers to the school flagpole. Cappy quickly changed the subject and remembered he had to be out at the airfield polishing up his round outs ..........

........more complications. Standard engines produced to do a job for a long life with basic maintenance and adjustments usually have one carburettor and a rough cast manifold that allows gas to pass, and complete with sprags, bulges and other imperfections. Where I come from is taking that engine and modifying it to produce double or more power. This involves throwing away the shared manifold and replacing it with, sometimes, stand-alone cylinder processing of gases to take advantage of pulsing, as Skippy mentions. The key process is to have tube lengths to optimise sonic wave directions. Joining the stand-alone manifolds would interrupt the sonic waves, lowering power. I tried to make the point before that the Rotax pedigree comes from light weight/high power engine applications wit some degree of development above the standard engine class..... Just how far developed it is, I haven't researched, but if it is using fuel packing design at all joining the stand alone environments may result in less power. Power being more important than the very short time an aircraft engine is idling. Since so far no one has come up with precise figures or explanations, I'd be wary. So far no one has come up with any real figures.

Let's just get to the centre of the pipe claim.