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3 hours ago, Yenn said:

I put in a report years ago and it was edited and printed up. It stated that I had not checked the tailwheel spring when I pre flighted, even though I had stated that I had checked it.

This happens sometimes when all the various witnesses have put their ten cents in.

1 hour ago, BrendAn said:

How many 582s have failed because of oil injection.  Just curious because this argument has gone on about oil injected outboards for years but most of the time the oil injection is not at fault.

I've had seizures with an oil injected outboard, beginning to turn my attention to the oil injection.

Can you provide more information on "most of the time the oil injection is not at fault?"

25 minutes ago, Thruster88 said:

I look on a regular basis. Nosewheel collapse and runway excursions by nosewheel and tailwheel aircraft are all to common. The most recent. 

 

 

19/9/2021	MKT Aerodrome	NT	I C P	Savannah S	Rotax	912 ULS	STATUS: Under review EXTRACT FROM REPORT SUBMISSION: On the forth landing of the day, the nose w...
STATUS: Under review EXTRACT FROM REPORT SUBMISSION: On the forth landing of the day, the nose wheel partially collapsed.   Unfortunately we will probably never know why the nosewheel partially collapsed. The accident and incident section seems to be just a box ticking exercise. How hard is it to have some follow up especially on the engine failures.

RAA Inc officers used to go further than that - not up to the level of ATSB because RAA doesn't have the exemptions to lawsuits that ATSB has, but more detail. Probably needs members to request more details (but not so many that RAA has to respnd with what I just said about its liability.)

....do something in case they decided to dump him in the boiling cauldron where all rats deserve to be. He was familiar with old halls and the TWCL was no different; there were some OLD witches there, and he knew what they used to scour the kitchen and hall after the depraved dancing. His eyes went for the top shelf and he found it! Phenyl!

There was nothing worse than a spilt bottle of phenyl and sitting up there was a vintage bottle. He threw ............

.....don't need that smell in our kitchen.

Cappy aka Ratso was mortified at forgetting his underarm deodorant, but ....................

..........the bone foreshore which is slated to be Gold Coast 2 within 30 years by Anastasia Pastrycook, who.....

1 minute ago, onetrack said:

I've read repeatedly that a taildragger is a lot safer in a forced landing in less-than-ideal terrain, due to the fact that they have a far lower tendency to flip over. Is this really the case?

Personally I don't mind flipping over and over and over because each grind  of the frame on the ground slow the aircraft down and reduces the end inmpact force. It only becomes unsafe when the cabin deforms and a tree comes and sits in your place or the safety harness fails in a high speed sudden stop or the stop is too sudden and you die from brain injury. A nose wheel provides extra progressive crumple force reduction.

......decided to run a Devil Night as a fund raiser, with a series of floor prizes to be supplied by the ...............

18 minutes ago, Yenn said:

I wonder what the accident rates for tail wheel are compared to tri gear and what type of accidents are most common.

From what I have seen over the years, one of the most common accidents is nosewheel collapse or similar.

You'll get a good idea from RAA Incident reports, however before drawing any conclusions you have to find out which way the pilot was taught to land the aircraft.

A few years ago a few people on here flogged the miltary nose-down way of landing - controlling speed with throttle elevators to descend. Inevitably if you are going to misjudge the landing, the nose will be pointing at the ground and the nose wheel will hit first and you'll be trying to prevent a porpoise with no chance of saving it.

 Alternatively if you have been taught to land the aircraft on the "backs of the wheels" with nose high attitude using elevators to control speed  and throttle controlling altitude progressively pulling the stickback in the flare, in touchdown and righgt back when the wheels touch, letting the nose wheel find its own way on to the ground the nose wheel is going to touch at a much lower speed so less potential damage.

The next issue to extract, is the number due to design, for example using thin wall mild steel tubing, with the nose leg buckling on a pothole or ridge. For a long time we have been considering these a nose wheel disadvantage vs tail dragger, but F10 has raised some very interesting information that indicates tail draggers may not have much more advantage in rough country.

Then there is the group where the expectation is just too much for the roughness of the landing area chosen.  For a Warrior or Cherokee 140 I test the padock out in a car at 100 km/hr - bet there are not too many people doing that, or a high enough speed to ensure an RA aircraft will handle the roughness.

After all of that, you'll be closer to an apples for apples comparison.

For years a string of hopefuls who have chosen to buy taildraggers as best for their intention to travel the country, outback etc. have tapered off their posts afterwards, so it's not going to be as black and white as many people think.

If you go back into history looking at wht tricycle was introduced, the first factor was the closing down of "all-over" fields where you could always take-off and land into wind.

That created two problems

(a) You had to learn to take off and land in crosswings and also taxy and handle the aircraft in crosswinds, and as Facthunter and others have pointed out a tailgragger has unstable dynamic handling making it very difficult to learn.

(b) With the demise of all-over fields, you were confined to very narrow runways by comparison, so you needed much greater accuracy when taxying, taking off or landing

That wasn't really a problem in the early days - flying was a two man affair, one to fly and one to hold a wing on the ground to stop the weathercocking.

Tricycle undercarriages appeared during WW2 probably because of a shortage of wing holders, and by the 1950s when manufacturers were selling the "aerial car" concept tricycle removed dynamic handling issue and there was a much lower volume of damage.

.....shipped to bone international harbour.

The Queensland Tourist Industry is on its knees after it sent Japan broke, India broke, and China broke with their exhorbitant Theme Park fees.

bone had none of their features but the bone business association thought they could attract some tourists with a Black Devil Exhibit, and bone concrete was even now building a Big Devil out on the highway where ...........

This appears to be from Cappy’s esoteric phase.

..........Paradise."

"Moan, Moan, Moan" said Premier Gutted "We'll anchor the cable to the floor of Bass Strait"

"Why don't we just anchor Tasmania to Bass Strait" interjected .......................

.....the Tasmanian Government to seriously think about securing Tasmania to the Mainland. As Premier Gutted said " We usually don't want to have anything to do with the Mainland XXXXX, but we do get a part of what every Mainlander spends in the form of GST which we would lose if we drifted, say, to New Zealand where they are stingy XXXXX, or the other way to South America where we would have to speak Spanish.

So Tenders were called for mooring lines from the two northern tips of Tasmania to suitable points on the Mainland, and the response was .............

25 minutes ago, 440032 said:

Yeah, exact same things happened to me one time.

What, shot through the shoulder, fell off a train 100 metres into a river, went over a waterfall?

...............cheered when he said that it would cost less and generate more power if he just pulled them all down and sold the scrap to ................

.........on shky ground until bull came up with the idea of a giant gyroscope to stabilise the Moon, and the conglomerates carved out just about all the cheese inside the moon's surface, which caused.........

.......milk the cows three times a day.

TGL had to think fast, and within days had produced a new brand for their cheese, "Coon" and it started selling like hotcakes as housewives went for the old familiar brand.

It wasn't long before the Rascist Board stepped in and told TGL to take it off the market because it might cause offence to some people.

"This cheese comes from the Moon" said Turbo, and "Moon" is already taken. Besides there are no known previous races other than the Black People Colony to be offended and they are long since extinct.............

And so Coon .............

8 hours ago, F10 said:

In my SAAF career, I knew of two Impalas that had in flight fires. Both caused by a faulty gasket in a fuel control unit (the BFCU), causing a severe fuel leak. Fuel pools below the engine, then she barks like a dog…whoof! The trouble is the elevators and rudder of the Machii, are controlled by aluminium torque tubes or push rods, that run through to the tail under the engine, right where the fire is. One pilot landed seconds away from the rods melting, the other said shortly after a night flying take off, he saw the fire and overheat warning lights come on, then shortly after, he felt the stick “go dead in his hands” and he ejected. 

Seems a few designers made elementary mistakes in the early jet engine days.

At one stage there was an influx of MIG-15s into the Australian Warbirds which quickly cooled off after two people were killed after an airshow in Canberra. https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1993/aair/aair199300484/

In The Australian War Memorial there is a static display of a MIG-15 where you can get right up and poke your head inside the aircraft. Remembering the crash I had a look inside the rear fuselage section and two things stood out.

1. Just how basic the fuselage design was in that area around the rear of the engine.

2. Amost touching the heat-discoloured turbine/tailpipe they had installed the fuel boost pump where a loose flare nut spraying fuel virtually had to hit the hot engine.

...........Australians swooned over the magnificent Viscount and its powerful Kingswood towing vehicle, the double decker bunks and that nostalgic White and Yellow colour scheme which flashed along the highways of yesterday.

Jut think what could have been found if the US Astronauts had taken a Kingswood up there; Neil Armstrong wouldn't have had to admit to taking one small step if he had the power of the Kingswood!

Turbo hesitated, but then admitted they had found accommodation on the Moon. There was an ancient colony of aliens which built houses on the dark side of the moon. These were the Black people, sometimes known as the Illuminati.

They visited earth, landing in the Black Forest in Germany. Their main food was Black Pudding which they introduced to the German people who they cross-bred with, but all were eventually wiped out by the Black Plague which they spread throughout Europe becaise people hadn't gt themselves vaccinated. There's a lesson there.

Colonel Willis Turbine who had been seconded to the US Army which was racing towards Berlin in 1945 made this discovery when he saw some furtive Nazi officers coming out of a cave. He waited until they were gone, went in and found thousands of documents and photos showing the colony on the Moon and the huge rockets used to travel.

Dr Werner von Baun was half-Black person and Colonel Turbine chased up the group of Nazis, caught them and had them sent to Arizona, where the US Space programme was begun.

Today Turbine Space Inc. has the knowledge to ................

[Old Black People's colony on the black side of the moon]

.....the astronauts eat well, qualify for a PhD on return and are able to fly the space ship home.

Without those three things ...........

I wonder if Dad and Dave will be hired to do the ads?

....keeps going flat.

While this exciting repartee had been going on Turbo had reached out to his business partners.

There was a trend developing; Elon Musk had sent up a spacecraft theoretically into space, which like the IPC and climate change, Nasa had quick readjusted so that they hadn't actually reached space.

Then Jeff Bezos had stuck one up NASA by sending his spacecraft well outside the spec ring.

Turbo wanted to go th the moon to shut these Nourveau Riche up, so he called a meeting and the outcome was that on a date to be announced, bull, CT, OT, Cappy and Turbo will be launching into space to start a small colony on the moon. Spokesperson, Captain Jack Cook, a descendent of the famous Captain Jim Cook who sailed to Hawaii, announced that planning had started with the purchase of six dozen bottles of Gin and hire of sixteen floosies.

After a short break, Mr One Track announced that he was the new Spokesperson, and advised that the Moon vehicle to be used was being launched now to check it's suitablility, as people may have noticed from today's TV News stories.

It is intended ........

Wasn't Bonza a 1940s term?

Hope diversity doesn't get pushed here or we may see the all-female Sheila Airways.

........1852. It was a robust, but very secretive organisation which flourished in Tasmania which still operates on mid-1850s regulations for all Councils and many buildings. Not many people know that CTWC campaigned (in secret of course) for a Casino in Hobart, and this more than anything else brought Tasmania into the 20th Century. Today CTWC are the largest shareholders in Wrest point Casino, Crown Casino and Star Casinos, and regularly bring in Oriental high flyers for their gratification. CTWC Ltd was the model constitution for RAA Ltd, after Epaulette got involved in some Masquerade parties and they showed him he photos they'd taken, and then ...............

".....salty sea water" said Admiral Epaulette, who was quite miffed at hardly ever making the pages of the NES, even though Biggles was an orange boy compared to the prodigious macho actions of Ep. One of his young female students admitted she was frightened of flying; Ep. immediately threw the litte Jab LSA 55 into a roll and said "Well what about this then" That cured her fear of aircraft; she never went near one again, and instead ..................