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....the original JO Leading Hand used some of the Datum Rule to light a fire on a particularly cold day. The CASA people moved in issuing an Order to make another stick but the RF Social Media industry went berserk, the gener theme being "How dare those idiots interfere with us who build and maintain [wish upon a star ref] our own planes" CASA backed down and .................

.......Turbine’s “Living The Dream” promotion.

However the ED business was failing;  no one wanted an electric Drifter. 
“I like Blueheads” said CT; “they’re not really aircraft” said Lemonface who had been building a savannah kit for 12 years, “......

Besides, if you called them that, you would have to provide a post-meal hand sterilisation and odorising pack which would double the cost of the burger. Remember Henry Kissinger; KISS

Ot came up with the name "OneBite", and ..............

........bowells. He realised that in the US Turbo’s CATburgers (which the customers all thought were named after Caterpillar dozers, about the only thing manly to look up to in the US) were distributed by 3500 H.L. Hunt Kenworths pulling refrigerated vans.

OT ordered 100, then ....

I've seen plenty of videos of the military deploying vehicles and tanks from aircraft.

The aircraft flies just above the ground; a hook snags a cable anchored on the ground; the aircraft keeps flying; the tank drops about a metre onto the ground and is stationary, no forward reaction.

It's the equivalent of the party trick of pulling the table cloth out from under all the cutlery (first time I tried it all the wine glasses came with the cloth and I was in the doghouse).

Someone will know the maths behind the process.

.......marketing ploy to take the real money for parking at the Pyramid, so no Pyramid, no Money.

OT cleverly told Turbo that Ahab's deal was a scam, so Turbo flew OT to Cairo in the Challenger and hires a Tata Limo to drive out to the pyramid. Ahab rushed towards them as they arrived and started the bellowing in Arabic (See Ray Stevens version a few posts back).

Turbo caught Ahab in mid-bellow with a chop to the throat, grabbed him by the nuts, and asked him to explain the Burger operation in fine detail NOW, or lose them.

Ahab admitted it didn't make much money and probably didn't justify the $35 million asking price, and so let Turbo out of the deal.

While Turbo went to the bathroom, OT signed a $35 million deal for the Burger business and the pyramid after asking Ahab what it was worth. "It's only a heap of old stone" Ahab had replied, a phrase quickly messaged around the world by Millenials and Zs which would be used for a hundred years.

What OT had seen was that the money was in owning the pyramid; whoever owned the pyramid owned the parking. 

He leveraged the new income by buying an ED and offering scenic flights around the pyramid, and ............ 

........changed direction a little towards Sneferu's Red Pyramid where he decided to land in the long clear space in front of the Pyramid. He decided to land there and have lunch at "Snef's" which sold organic Arab Food. As he rolled to a stop in front of the pyramid an Arab walked out and introduced himself "Good morning good sir, I am being Ahab" he said "and I am also being your host for the day; Allah is only asking $100 landing fee, and mu goodness me that's chip. With resignation, bull asked "How much are the burgers at Snef's" and Ahab replies "Ok my goodness gracious me, Camel burgers now only one dollar" bull started taking a liking to Ahab the Arab, and .............................

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGHppK6PQJ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ippnMH2WwE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCwellRgo0w&t=374s

( note the million dollar smile on the guitarist in the band, playing with THE Dwayne Eddy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP_neBGKVU4

....pressed on.

What he didn't know was that the Turbine guy was Egyptian, and now, without the riches he expected he called down the Curse of the Pharaos on bull.

As he flew past the step pryamid at Saqqara, a bolt of lightning shot out and took off the tip of one wing.

"No probs" he thought, I'll just throw in a little left stick.

A much bigger bolt of lightning shot out and took off a quarter of the other wing but before he could adjust aileron a golden bull came flying up from the Bent Pyramid, snorting fire and ....................

........Sahara.

They welded the nosewheel leg back on, bull gave it full noise and he was up and away. The Turbine guy......

..................reluctantly agreed, and picke up the shovel.

He poured perspiration as he shoveled, but calculated his immeasurable wealth and  future membership of the Millionaires Club as he shovelled on........................

......cold glass of VB because it would be hot work.

It was at that moment the a 4WD drove past on the snow. On the side was Turbine Extraction Co, No job to big or too small.  "We bring them home!"  bull ran faster than he'd ever run before [which we have to say was not very fast], and he caught the 4WD at the bottom of a gully (bull had fallen from the top which increased his speed somewhat, and a deal was struck for the extraction which consisted of the 4WD driving up to the hole and the operator climbing down an attaching his winch cable to the nosewheel.

The nosewheel and leg came up straight away, and bull raced over to explain the rest needed to come up in one picece; anothe deal was struck to ........................

27 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

But !.

It is getting closer to having All light weight aircraft on the RAA register. 

And  out of CaSa's hair .

spacesailor

No it's not; have a look at the different specifications and requirements for all the aircraft on the GA register.

51 minutes ago, Mike Gearon said:

1. After watching the video definitely need an escape hammer in low wings. That hammer had a sharp end I think.

This one has a harness cutter as well:

......having trouble controlling the aircraft because of the spinning in his head.The inevitable caught him off guard and the aircraft was in a spin. So was bull. He saw mountains rotating in front of him. Everything started to go white; the light was glaring and bull thought he had crashed and died, but he was only over a snowfield which he hit at the terminal velocity of the Jacka. Down he went, deep into the snow where he saw the bodies of several lost skiers from last season; they never advertised it, but they lost about 150 each year and no one ever missed them. Eventially the Jacka ran out of energy, and he was able to start cutting steps up the side of the hole with his snow shovel. He ...........................

............tearing as the small aircaft stretched way beyond what even Da Vinci every drew and his were s t r e t c h e d!

It happened that he was in a turn, headed in the direction of Melbourne when ....................

1 hour ago, Captain said:

... he was approached by 2 Vicmanistan Gov't types who wanted to discuss bull's landing & other tax status (landing fees in Dan land are now more that land taxes), monies that bull still owes to the Stand-With-Dan fund, outstanding donations to buy red T-shirts and a couple of .......

 

 

A MEETING IN THE VICMANISTAN GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN LITTLE BOURKE ST, BEFORE 2 OF THEM HEADED DOWN TO SALE TO HAVE A "CHAT" WITH bull

....parking tickets from Moorabbinstan Airport which ...................

........headed for the warm welcome he new he would get from all Victorians, landing in the city of Sale where he was given a civic reception before.....

..........not wearing a Turbine ribbon.

It had been innocent enough; a little old man ws sitting in a chair next to the entrance and had murmured "Buy a ribbon?" and he'd walked straight past.

Now the TIKI officer had his passport and was looking him up and down; "You don't have a ribbon? he asked and backtraced [avref] to the old man where he saw a sign "Ribbons $50.00."

He bought a ribbon and went back to immigration where the TIKI took it off him.

Exhausted, e decided to have a snack. The sign said "Only Blue Ribbon wearers admitted", so back he went to the little old man, smiled at the TIKI man, into the cafe, and by the time bhe was lining up to take off he was $4,832.50 lighter.

He gave the backtracking for take off call, and the radio crackled with "You don't appear to be wearing a yellow riibbon, so around he came, but went a little wide and a wheel went down a Mutton Bird hole. A tractor came across and he breathed a sigh of relief; he thought he was going to be living here. The farmer got off with a handfull of ribbons.........................

......stripped off thinking it was a Fesitival. It was covered up of course in the press, not because it was a gaffe, but the Editors all deemed it was too gruesome for children and millenials to handle.

That had been the end for Labor at that election. Even though nothing had bee published on TV, daio of newpapers, in those days women used to gossip on the phone most of the day, and were way ahead of Reuters when it came to scandal, and they deserted Labor. They were still smarting from what that "nice Mr Whitlam: turned into once he got their vote, Now he seemed to be masking as an Aborigine and many women thought it was time he was given a few scars, or a welcoming ceremony of burnt fingers, or .......................

........Jacinta Adern; running out of options on a mountain slope with no brakes........................

4 minutes ago, Mike Gearon said:

Here are some nose wheel examples. 

 

Below from a YouTube similar accident to the one the other day and similar result in RV tricycle gear. The point of failure obviously the solid spring steel shaft of I’d say 1” dia. Given a preference I’d rather be stronger here and bending the engine mount and firewall and landing without ploughing the ground. 

2nd image is the RV10A engine mount. Obviously a revision for a reason.

 

3rd is Cirrus SR22. 
 

I don’t really understand the forces involved that you’d think would bend the shaft upward toward the propellor when in fact they bend it toward the ground and then around in a U shape. The pivot may provide the nosewheel shaft more chance to deflect upward and  absorb load and at the end of travel the spring steel can possibly flex in the correct direction to continue absorbing load. 
 

I know an aircraft designer pretty well and I’m going to ask!

 

If you round out to a tail-down attitude (rotate this photo to the right), the aircraft lands on the mains, taking any initial bumps or holes without the nose wheel touching. If you pull the stick back fully as it is rolling on the mains, the aircraft has rolled quite a distance, and slowed down quite a bit before the nose wheel touches, and when it does it will be at this angle.

At this angle, castor looks good and the strut is laying back enough to bend with extreme bumps with the nose wheel coming up forwards.

If you ever, in an effort to force the aircraft on to the ground, lower the nose near the ground, tilt the photo around to the left. When the nose wheel strikes at flying speed it wants to bend the strut backwards, shortening the wheelbase, and that let's the nose slam into the dirt. The forces in this scenario are many times the forces the undercarriage was designed for.

You then have this much greater force not simply flexing the strut, but pointing it at the ground. Take a fishing rod, sit one end on a horizontal surface and make it flex very predictably, then put the end against a vertical surface, and push; the result is more violent and less predictable.

....you could pull a battery out in ..............................

......extrapula.

It was then that he decided to jettison the battery. They would have thought of....

7 minutes ago, facthunter said:

The A380 incident was lucky anyone got off it alive.   The PR  dept has been in overdrive. No JET pax deaths in 100 years. When you cut maintenance you don't improve safety. Get rid of your regular  staff and hire off the street. Great for MORALE too. Nev

Richard knew what he was doing.

Coxic. Suddenly he thought "They would have allowed for this, and decided to jettison [avref] the battery. "There has to be a button somewhere" he thought as he gazed unseeingly over acres of glass which could tell him the time in Kabul, the way home, the temberature in Kansas city, how many eagles and hawks were in Victoria.......finally he shoved a big red knob, and his head bashed against the screen. He'd hit the parachute button. The designer had succesfully deduced that an aircraft would always be going forwards when the engine failed, so a prachute in the rear wouldn't need an explosive charge; where he'd gon wrong. was assuming a pilot in command would know red means STOP. The battery didn't move; given that the labour to change over to a new battery in the Leaf is $600 and there was no jack to hold the Drifter still, he realised that option had gone, and tried to release his harness by ..........................