turboplanner

22 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

There are 2000 permanent employees in the Parliamentary precinct when Parliament is not sitting, 4000 when Parliament is sitting. 

Parliament passes 90  Bills per year, not 2 per week but squeezed into sitting time.

Her Majesty’s Opposition is required to find out any weakness in any Bill ... on the run.

38 minutes ago, onetrack said:

The problem is that quite a few of them don't work on the administrative problems that really need addressing, they're put in the "too-hard", or "don't rock the boat" files.

 

By far the single greatest problem facing Australian society is vast amounts of over-governance, bureaucracy and red tape. It needs a number of politicians dedicated to addressing the constantly-burgeoning level of "oversight" on everything you want to do.

There are 2000 permanent employees in the Parliamentary precinct when Parliament is not sitting, 4000 when Parliament is sitting. 

3 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

Assistance ????

 

You have a different view on the career poly?

Yes, I've worked with a lot; many work until after midnight.

16 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

Hey I even saw electric control-line models flying...  who would have predicted that?

No surprises when people have understood the physics of power demand vs rate of battery life; there are quite a few logical applications for electric power; wheelchairs, golf carts, bikes, power tool skins/multiple batteries - even fishing reels.

16 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

Mainstream Pollys (the lowest form of human existence) do little if anything beyond what is politically expedient for themselves.

After reading that I expect you probably would be a bit short on assistance.

.......Ahlocks........................

....used. Ths was the first and most important figerprint clue to the identity .............

...........code named WHN. His posts on TRACKER indicated erratic behaviour such as .......

....become Moderator 23.

Now M23 was an important, strategic positon because it was his job to weed out any terrorists, and it's not easy to tell a terrorist from his/her graphic fingerprint alone. You had to look at the nature if the posts and the timbre, but eventually they all slipped up, like that terrorist .................

....the familiar sounds of Cappy, who suffered from arthritis, and emitted a groaning, grumbling sound when he walked. Turbo had researched many treatments for him but Cappy shunned medicine as being suitable "only for girls", usually nodding in Turbo's direction.

Not many people know that the unusual chords used in unusual Leonard Cohen  song "Hallelujah" were the result of a secret recording of Cappy walking along a creek trail.

When Tuurbo and Cappy were fighting for the Raj on the Kyber Pass, and had been without food for three days, Turbo suggested the hunt for some meat. They'd gone seven miles up the mountain when they heard a kakar bell, stand still and stare in their direction. Turbo knew the kakar had sighted a tiger, so he suggested Cappy go ahead quietly. Not more than thirty seconds later a magnificent female Bengal tiger walked around the bend towards Cappy. Yelling at Turbo to "shoot the XXX!" even though he had a perfectly good Holland and Holland 350 in his hands, Cappy jumped over the side, and slid down the steep scree on his backside at a frightening pace. His ,moans turned into .............

Hallelujah: 

........realised they'd been Putin ...................

10 minutes ago, onetrack said:

This is affordable flying - and even this costs vastly more than it did, when I was a youngster, 65 years ago!

 

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The principle was good for the first two seconds but no matter how much you wound them the rubber never seemed to produce enough torque after that.

.......Russian spies collided on the way out to the jumping castles, and ......................

11 hours ago, Ian said:

Their fuel consumption is pretty poor even by turbine standards. There is an paper on how they might be made more efficient. I think that this one states that JetCat overstates their thrust figures significantly as well.

 

Don't worry about Jetcat; I just plucked a random set of figures to make the point that GT are relatively common now in RC, and affordable, and it may be possible to upscale them to the current RA thrust range. 

For anyone interested in basing a GT on these units, I'd recommend going to a field to see them in action, and talking to the owners to find out the current popular suppliers and the design techniques they use.

The key factor in RA flying is keeping the cost down to affordable flying.

1 hour ago, Geoff_H said:

Not limited to one engine but just try to get a two engine light aircraft registered with RAA, eg Cri Cri, just can't happen!

Not unreasonable.

........Putin to bleed all over the carpet about the two Russian aviators Sergi Chaikovski and Chaika Sergitsky who actually were the first people to fly two weeks before Orbille and Wilbur, but they went on a three week bender of vodka and blondes at the remote campsite where the flight took place, and the rest is history. Suddenly Putin realised he may have slipped up and said "Who am I talking to" but Turbo had already ..................

Turbines are now quite common in RC aircraft now, so someone has found a way to make them economically.

Since most RC flights are less than 10 mins and you might get three sessions in a day at city fields, hours would be low, but I haven't seen any figures.

I just plucked one, Jetcat with 2.4 kg thrust 2255 Euro incl starter motor

14 kg thrust $US1780

Turbine record speed in RC aircraft currently 465.44 mph.

There's not going to be many sales in Recreational Aviation if you start in the aero market discussed so far, but starting with the RC products it would be interesting to see price/total life/fuel consumption compared to 80 and 100 hp, or even lower for single seat recreational, all with around 100 kts cruise.

2 hours ago, APenNameAndThatA said:

You can call them with the info you do remember. I would not bother with writing down their callsigns. (Disclaimer: I have 168 hrs.) 

No need for the disclaimer; this applies from your first solo. If you have the type of brain that easily remembers little details like that and retain them its not an issue; if the callsign falls out of your memory you need to write it down on the back of your hand if necessary. This procedurepays off when you are receiving rapid and repeated instructions from a very busy tower.

.....tongues hanging out the side of their mouths, and eventually went on to be bus drivers.

CT was a bit of a brown noser (and we take care here to point out that we are referring to Chernei Tchaikowsky , not the bunny shooter), and he wandered across to Room 637 and entered an office where the main desk had 1960 phones  and gadgets meant to look cutting edge, but they'd been cut in the West decades ago and could still be seen on hard rubbish piles in places like Wopping and Logan.

I've brought you a cup of tea, and some buns CT said to the pair of burning eyes. "What tea is this?" Putin asked, and CT replied "English". A hand lashed out and smacked it to the floor. "Where did the buns come from" Putin asked and CT said "France; we try to get everything from the EU countries............" and Putin was about to shott him as an example, when he thought......he needed every advantage he could get. "You want to tell me something?" "What did you think of my message?" he asked and it wasn't long before an email c ame in from Turbo "Looks like this is for you PUT, how many tanks down today?" ......the silence was .......

....balls in his hands and ran for the bush, where .......................................

........T-U-R-B-O. Nobody had told him that the error was only on the Chinese manufacture computers that Russia had bought in the 1980s, and the Post3mesch said "who the hell is this" in Russian. A factory worker who was sixth in the queue yelled out "That's Turbo in Australiaz you idiot; he's the one who's been giving us the nightly news from Ukraine about our brave soldiers" and everyone laughed, the Post3mech grinned and market the messaged URGENTSKY!!!!!!!!!

Turbo received the messaged intended for Putin ..........................

So wooden turbo props are the coming thing in recreational aircraft?

....but someone did.

In the deep dark corridors of the old section of the Kremlin, Chernei Tchaikowsky was in deep thought.

An alert had come up on his computer of two words entered in Australia in sequence by P, one of the sixty million people under 24 hour surveillance by the Kremlin.

 In 2015 Putin had picked up a video cassette of Robert Redford in Three days of the Condor, a story about three people in an old attick in New York who sat there listening to every conversation in the world, noting any naughty words and punishing the bad people. It was just the sort of thing this introvert who even then hated the Ukraine, because they always had the best soldiers in the USSR, and he introduced the system to the Kremlin.

As an explanation to casual NES readers we should explain that around the same time Turbo an ad had come on Turbo's screen for a $10 software package that watched all computer and phone transmissions in the world, sorted them according to which ones the subscriber wanted to see, and produced an hourly report. They say "Knowledge is Power" and Turbo paid his ten dollars, and that has kept him informed for years (along with Cappy's morning gossip). Putin also paid ten dollars, and set it up in the Kremlin.

CT was irritated when the message came in because the first thing he had to do was read through the 30,000 Ps so see which one was making the statement.

It was shear bad luck that there was a fault in the old Kermlin computers and today they were transposing letters, so T-u-r-b-o became P-u-t-i-n.

This had to be reported immediately so CT ...............................

Now .......some would say that fringe members who never contribute might have difficulty calling for anything, but hypothetically they could make a post, call for something, then delete the post in the ten seconds available. The erotic adventures of XXXXXXXXXXXand XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX at XXXXXXXXXX just posted by Turbo confirms this procedure works, so ..................

2 minutes ago, Ian said:

While I really like ceramics and I hope that you're right in terms of cost, they're a bear to machine. CMCs have been used for combustor and turbine housings however turbine blades are precision components with very high tolerances. The materials being considered are hard like SiC in ceramic matrices often of equal hardness. Very hard compared to metals.

 

I suppose cost is a relative thing, when you're an airline fuel savings may drive their introduction. Ceramic disks are relatively cheap in comparison however I don't see many cars with them.

 

Ceramics failed in the 1980s/90s in both clutch discs and engine components, primarily combustion chamber parts such as piston tops valve tops, valve seals. We've had many discussions on this site about combustion chambers getting too hot and damaging components as a result, and ceramics were going to break through this barrier, but the failure was in installation and servicing; there were just too many hours and broken ceramics during installation. The clutches failed for a different reason; they were designed for almost instant engagement, but the drivers just couldn't adapt to an instant start; they wanted to slip the clutches. In those circumstances the ceramics acted like machine tools and tore up the flywheel face, shortening the life. Today there may be a chance with robotic assembly etc.