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..........chance that a Sherpa wouldn't be able to keep up with Turbo even if he was disadvantaged by an Amazonian Princess dangling from his carabinier on a 50 metre long-line, as he .................

......carabiniers in a most unusual way. This led to the belief among the Sherpas.........................

48 minutes ago, Garfly said:

Perhaps this clip of that Richard Boyd Barrett speech in the Irish parliament can serve here in the role of peace-keeper (I'm sure he'd be willing).  In this one he's shown, in a fuller context, railing against the Putin regime and the NATO alliance, equally.

 

(However, the Ukrainian point-of-view, per se , is, again, given short shrift, so it's back to a degree of 'westsplaining' - scant regard for buffer-state agency ) 

 

This clip is posted by People Before Profit National.  I think we can all agree, this is a far more congenial host for the likes of Barrett than BitChute.

 

 

This is a classic  example of either:

(a) A speaker who lost the plot after the first paragraph or two and muddied the waters so much that at the end everyone had forgotten about Russia, or:

(b) A reverse-subject speech where the speaker is not interested in Russia but the people he hates and damns them with faint praise.

Note that this gentleman came to light only as an example to use to tip a bucket on our country and our allies.

All a good reason for this site to stick to discussing Recreational Flying.

.......n Amazon who'd been stuck on a desert island for fifteen years who ...............

........disbelieved him as usual and continued drinking and talking over him. But Turbo just smiled, he knew what it was like at 20,000 feet in the Eiger face to ................

21 hours ago, Peasant_Pilot said:

Afternoon, looking to try and find replacement discs to suit these rims. They are a 6" rim and the discs are press riveted, but struggling to identify the rim type or where to get information about the discs etc. If anyone has any info they could share it would be much appreciated.

What about machining those discs?

.....for that matter his mountain climbing harness which had left him with many scratches..........

24 minutes ago, walrus said:

My reading:

 

CAo 95.55:

 

9.1:

i)    a relevant aeroplane must not be flown over a populous area or a public gathering unless:

             (i)   a certificate of airworthiness under regulation 21.176 of CASR is in force for the aeroplane; or

            (ii)   the requirements mentioned in paragraph 9.7 are complied with in relation to the aeroplane;

 

And 9.7 says:

(b)   in the case of any other aeroplane:

             (i)  an experimental certificate under regulation 21.195A of CASR, or an SAB flight permit, must be in force for the aeroplane; and

            (ii)  an approval authorising flight in the aeroplane over a populous area or public gathering must be in force under regulation 91.045 or 91.050 of CASR, which approval imposes no conditions or limitations that would prevent the flight.

 

..And the certificate says, among many other things:

18. Operation over a closely settled area shall be avoided at all times.

and separately,

20. The operation over a built up area of a town or city is subject to:

 -- at a height and speed being able to glide clear of persons or dwellings.

 

None of this makes sense, I'm missing something.

- You CAN operate over a closely settled area if its unavoidable?

- You CAN operate over a built up area?

Isn't a built up area a closely settled area? Who decides what is unavoidable, my wallet? My passenger? My need for a toilet stop?

 

The SAAA has a paper that applies to their aircraft which makes sense.

https://saaa.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IPM-FO-002-002-Flight-over-populous-areas.pdf

Sunny, Dorothy Dixers don't fool most people so:

(a) You could fly at a minimum 1,000 feet where you see an array of houses

(b) You can write to CASA and get a definitive answer 

(c) You can set a good example for recreational aviation with the locals and stay above 1000 or prefereably 1500 feet because noise dissipates according to distance.

....balmy breezes and Hawaiian guitar music, or they look like the scrawny trash found in Queensland resorts where if you stay up late you'll see the resort manager wandering around the garden superpgluing nuts on the trees for the gullible tourists from Sydney who wouldn't know a nut from .................

.......the banking industry; crippled it in Australia; the Big 5 had to close down local banks all over Australia, and those old moaners who'd been continually complaining about lack of service had to go to Coles and Woolies to get their cash.........and then had the indignity of having to punch a machine for their money anyway, or the Russian Oligarchs on this site who've brought home the difficulty of hanging on to their wealth after being banned from the Cooks (as the locals say), or ......

.......Captain Cook sailed into the harbour.

Astute NES readers will have jumped to the conclusion that Captain Cook couldn't have named the Cook Islands, and that is true, but by a quirk of ...............

..........Turbinians who needed it to build their chariots.

Not many people know the wheel was invented by a Turbinian, Jehova Turbine who made one out of plywood but it kept getting wet and spreading, so he cast chariot wheels from gold, and they helped win wars by moving troops fast. At this stage the horse hadn't been invented (today it would have been rejected because it was unable to meet current CO2 emission standards), so the chariot were pulled by captive slaves from the Cook Islands, where ..........................

28 minutes ago, onetrack said:

You need to be very careful buying used vehicle electronic components, and make sure they haven't come from a submerged vehicle.

That reminds me of the time when my office was next to the GM Vic Service Manager. From time to time his voice would start to rise and it be a sure sign that a customer hadn't agreed with a decision after a long process of arbitration.

This customer was complaining that his new Commodore was the most unreliable car he'd ever bought, had been back to the dealer (think of a mind boggling number - some of them would say 57 times) and if it wasn't lighte failing is was strange EXU messages or the engine would cut out etc. It ended with him promising the customer he would investigate. He called the District Service Manager in, who backed up the customer story, and about three hours later I heard: "Mr X, I don't quite know how to tell you this (which got my attention), but your new car was submerged in the Murray River for a month after being stolen from the Car Carrier. The Factory Manager issued instructions for it to be taken back to Elizabeth and cut up. What I can't explain is how, after that you got to buy it as a new car, and we've asked Police to investigate. So you'll be getting a new car, plus......By that time they were the best of mates.

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

I don't use bushels much now, I actually prefer kennings and pecks. And everyone should know that 2 pecks makes a kenning.

You're right on the line the Commonwealth Government used when introducing the Metric system to Australia.

I was at a Meat Industry Conference (a lot of participants had fleets of more than 100 Meat Vans), and one segment was Metric Conversion. We had a Regular Army Sergeant to teach us and he rolled through all the conversions and showed us how "easy it was to remember there were 1000 mm in a metre etc.

He was doing OK until he started giving examples of how silly the Imperial system was. Many of the participants could accurately assess how many pounds a bullock at the saleyards would go, and they could sell it for five shillings a pound, and they could size up a 1000 lb bullock, divide by 4 and know they'd sell it for 250 pounds, so they'd become increasingly restless.

Motivation hadn't come to Australia at that point and you did what your bosses told you, and they were all bosses, and clearly the Sergeant wasn't carrying the room. So the Sergeant reverted to type and told us how silly we were in a series of questions "How many Roods in an Acre?, How many perches in a rood?, how many pecks in a nushell, how many gills in a pint, what is a barrel? and finally someone yelled out "TEN PIECES OF KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN!"

.........booze at the pubs as patrons scattered in all directions cursing Putin, but in a soft voice because no one wanted the 15 year prison sentence for dissing the little prick.

For NES readers a little confused, the Luskies Ian Clan started up in WW2 when the British and Russians were allies and Ian McLachlan, a Scot went to Russia to teach their Air Force Pilots to fly Spitfars and left fifteen sons in Minsky, where the sons ................

I conducted a survey on current morist use of car instruments this morning. My wife said she uses the speedo, GPS zone speed limit, outside temperature, and the odometer to see how far the car has gone. And, as an afterthought, the fuel gauge.

29 minutes ago, Methusala said:

You could say that this is a further step into the abyss of Nuclear WW111. Mad Neocons of the world! 

<Poland is giving Ukraine all its MIG 29s now free of charge and the US is giving Poland F16s >

 

Could you give a citation for this?

Channel 9 News. 

There'll certainly be a change in aircraft over the Ukraine, and Poland, with this morning's news that Poland is giving Ukraine all its MIG 29s now free of charge and the US is giving Poland F16s to replace all the aircraft given to Ukraine.

17 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

I dont doubt the veracity of your comment. The  "ribbon"  type of instrument scale was quit popular in cars,  in my youth, especially those from continental Europe. The trend did not last all that long (some outliers persisted )however it would seem that for the most part people preferer clock/dial type instruments.

I would suggest its the system you have trained yourself fort that you will be the quickest on and most comfortable with.

Further I speculate that conversion from one representation to another, will almost inevitably result in a degree of psychological "difficulty", which would make people resistant to change.

Interesting subject, as we know, some of us sometimes do our checks, even touch the gauges as we do them, and something happens where we then look at the gauge and the result shows we clearly hadn't been absorbing what we saw.

With the engine management systems in today's cars, I'd suggest most drivers have gravitated to watching the speedo only, and that's because of camera pain.

I'm currently updating a truck design programme and for the last couple of years have been working on Tautliners, Prime Movers, B Doubles and Road Trains. Today I checked out a tipper, and found I'd forgotten to input the front wall, the hydraulic hoist, and whether the hoist was internal or external, which resulted in a substantial error in the end result.

The input fields were all showing for those things; I'd just failed to see them, so I'm going to input sub-"plates" which will require ticks.

3 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

As I understand you you are saying, in short, cars have become even more L or R centric than ever befor. You may be correct, if so this just makes my opinion that the World needs to standardise,  preferably right hand drive (cause they are the majority) and metric measurements, again majority, simplest and most logical measurement system to date.

Yes, then we can all have the Offset windscreen wipers, angled instruments, and "all-model" production lines where Robotics allow the production line to build a different model every 20 seconds or so, because 10,000 robots can weld, drill seal, pick parts and install without having to scratch their heads, so car costs would come down. We actually made the changeover from giving way to a car turning right as we were about to turn left, in 24 hours and anyone who has driven a LHD car in the US knows, that you pretty much handle it 10 minutes after leaving the airport, if you've studied the rules, so no big deal. At this stage there's no great incentive to make the switch in Australia though.

2 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

With the exception of the instrument panel (which would include air conditioning control & delivery systems), I have seen cars (eg Mercedes W123 from the 1977-85) that have been designed, from the outset, to be  either L or R.

In those days you could see down each side of the engine then; today electronics have been added to the non-symmetrical issues usually fitted high up on the opposit side to the battery.

Steering column assys are usually bought in and have the chassis mounting flanges on the RHS for a LHD car. Shift the column to the RHS and you don't have a mounting flange plus you probably have founing from a drain plug, and the existing column mounting flanges require other components to be moved to make new space.

In theory you should be able to turn the main electrical harness upside down, but it's not practical to shift some components becuse theres no room on the other side, so you need to extend some looms.

The handbrake that works comfortably in the centre console in LHD is non-ergonomic if you just leave it there in RHD so you have platform changes, spot welding changed, opposite-hand pressings to make, electrical offsets to gain opposite space etc.

The plenum chamber which takes advantage of no steering column and free passenger space has to be reverse designed and moulded.

I've just spent three weeks patiently cutting away in the RHS of the engine bay to fit a 700 CCA battery. The people who did the RHD conversion couldn't squeeze it in so they supplied a 400 CCA.

That and the fact that the battery was now on the opposite side to the starter motor, and required double the length of battery cable resulted in very unreliable starting. I found a way to get the big battery in, but had to cut and rebuild the plenum chamber, a new lower base plate assy and hold downs, slightly different mudguard angle and relocate about 30 autocables. In the process I discovered a missing fuse block which the converter had left behind the dash.

Ultimately it's a cost thing that has stopped the LHD manufacturers.

6 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

 The mechanics are fairly straight forward; some suspension alignment changes a different rack & pinion or worm drive steering system - its the costs associated with instrument panel/dash board and safety/airbag changes that are the big hurdle.

The design and production costs are so high that General Motors has discontinued building in RHD.

The differences start in the body platform, steering column, battery carrier, exhaust system, wiring harness, and go from there to things like window controls, climate control plenums, swapping starter motor and alternator mounts etc.

Australia just doesn't have the volume of sales to justify stand along designs any more, so we will be pulling product from high volume RHD producers whether we like them or not.

......Nob to come out of the woodwork in his Zero and save the day in Ukraine with machine gun fire and the occasional ......

.......capable of 41 kts at WOT with a stalling speed of 40 kts, which required deft handling of the controls. One of the most successful pilots of this intriguing aircraft is Vladimir Putin's son, Ras Putin, who has long flowing hair and ..................

......Kremlin where the people were starting to get heartily sick of Putin disregarding their advice.

"We know he's the son of that other despot because every time he tries to grow a moustache it never grows outside the shade of his nose, and the last thing we need is another one right now" said one senior KGB Operative, but he'd no sooner said it than he was off to Siberia with the speed of a 60 km column of Russian tanks, and ......