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..............crank the Chamberlain to get the engine running to actually do something because where the International Super AWD9 had a decompression lever, the Chamberlain's Perkins engine designed for England's barns could only be started by another battery and batteries were scarce on the sub Continent where ................

......wiches - oe bite and you know they're stale.

ISIS too offence at this and so began the chain of wars leading to Afghanistan where the sandwich narrative was swapped for camel dung.

On the horizon appeared.........

....originally ISAS the bulldozer division of International Harvester set up a factory in the mountains so production wold be easy in the cool air, and there would be plenty of Tea for the workers. A crew from Chicago came across to teach the highlanders how to build and one day Mahatma Singh, the leading hand asked if it would be possible to make rocket launchers with the same tools. The Americans, not always the sharpest tool in the drawer showed them how to do it and they immediately started using them on the Americans, but in those days the expat Americans just jumped on a dozen TD24s and, charging forward blade to blade in high gear pushed them into the dirst. A few decades later IH were going to take them to court for failing to pay Registered Design fees on the ISAS name so they had to change it to ISIS and .......................

....stories began to be told of Cappy's relative and Cappy quickly told lurid tales of the Track Family. One of them was quite memorable. It was about Colonel James Cuthbertson Beaten-Track.

The good Colonel was leading an attack on the Kyber Pass using only he Holland and Holland 440, the rifle he used for Tiger. His men stayed faithfully with him in the attack albeit lined up in single file behind him, but the splatter from the heathen enemy when the H&H load hit was such that the quickly lost appetite for the fight and turned for home, but, at an ideal place for an ambush, Schitt Creek, India, they turned and .........................

.......and they all knew the brand of gin that was required. "Better bring a compass" said Two tracks "because we aren't going to get much guidance out fo him once he slips into it." and they all ...........

1 minute ago, SSCBD said:

What problems can you get in these days being sooo PC  with  landing a RAA or single engine VH on an airstrip where permission is required.

 

For example -  your honour - flying along happily for about 2 hours and my passenger had the urge.  We had about another 45 mins to fly but underneath was a lovely looking grass strip and when I  looked it up it was permission required.

 

It was an uncertified airfield called Ashford Cawdor YASF - it's 1000 metres long but we were not in a position to call the owner.

 

Don't get me wrong I have landed many many times on strips in the back blocks without asking permission for natures calls without any problems.

 

What can they really do about it if you had a reasonable excuse to land.

 

anyone's thoughts

 

I think there's a regulation with a blanket requirement; can't remember where it is, but if you get into trouble with unexpected weather and call any of the Centres, don't expect helpful advice, just jargon which doesn't help you when the airfield is going to be your only choice. Weather is covered by declaring an emergency, but I don't thing "I'm bursting" cuts it, although it should.

......clamp-nipple type grease gun for the tour trailers which have to go over some very rough ground.

Also ample drink bottles and sunscreen, and ............

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19 minutes ago, Munger said:

Morning All,

 

Does anyone know if an Airport or the decommissioning of a licensed airfield to unlicensed has an influence on the 'City' status of a town?

 

Hope you are all well!

No it's  unrelated

2 minutes ago, Marty_d said:

 

It worked!   🤣

Yeah but it doesn't carry any weight.

5 minutes ago, jackc said:

Well, I have to ask WHY I am being hammered to sell my 28 acre rural block with off grid liveable shed by real estate agents with buyers from Victoria.

I will probably build a Tiny House for hermits on it and get a nice fat return from that capital investment.

Intelligent Victorians know what they want 🙂 

Most people would understand what Real Estate patter means; much the same as the transparent "We've only got one left"

....rattle their weapons and fire ................

13 minutes ago, walrus said:

Excellent advice! I watched some of it live yesterday.

 

‘The ABC has belled the cat this morning: breakdown of the health system. This is the issue I was advised about on day one.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-02/victoria-hospital-covid-case-capacity-icu-beds/100420728

It's always been the Critical Point. Victoria's lockdown trigger occurs when the predicted figures reach ICI capacity - that's when they lock down and start isolating the public.  I would hate to be living in Country Australia right now because that threshold in most cases is 1 or 2, then RFDS has to transport patients to the cities. Easy to see an Italy occurring in a town.

Any perception that this pandemic is being fought by some Czar at the top based on some dogma is dispelled when Jeroen gets up to speak:

WY0127.pdf

8 hours ago, walrus said:

Dan is playing a double game...... Opening at 70 -80% will still produce deaths from an epidemic among the unvaccinated and collapse the health system. That is the problem - the "80% freedom!" idea doesn't work for any state, especially not WA, SA and TAS who have no cases.

 

...So Dan figures if he makes thing miserable enough then there will be widespread civil disobedience.  That destroys the plan. What happens next, which is predictable, is then not Dans problem....

 

That is why Dan is doing what he does.

Under the State of Emergency Dan doesn't have the power to play a double game, but you are right about "opening up" - it's based on a flow of deaths, and it wouldn't surprise me to see that idea changed in coming months.

Think about the political future of anyone who adopted a policy that resulted in 50,000 deaths between now and the next election if you want to be cynical.

The best way to answer your thoughts is just to look at yesterday's live Press Conference.

The Premier fronts every day of every month along with the Chief Health Officer to inform the press and anyone who wants to watch -live (and anyone who's done public speaking knows just how hard it is to present live without having mind blanks or making mistakes). At the end of the presentations the press are able to ask questions for as long as they like.

For those who want to get a close up of how decisions are made, the precision of the information flow and actually see the stress on the faces of the decision makers I would recommend you watch this link to yesterday's live press conference where the new blow out in Victoria's figures was discussed and explained, and the current game plan was explained both locking down of the infected areas and freeing up of areas with a different pattern of outbreaks.

The conference went for 1 hour 54 minutes and I would recommend you watch to the end and see the degree of cross-questioning done by the press, and the answers given by the key people fighting the battle - it puts a human face on what is happening and why.

.....was smuggling kangaroos out of Kangaroo Island for his Cat Farm up at Rodds Bay and Annastasia had been a Reef Moll on the Heron Island Cat and also the Entertainer at the resort. Turbo would often do the trip to the Island while he was waiting for parts for the Evinrude.

Anna would get on the spanners to help him, and he paid her back by funding her election campaigns.

Now she was helping him get tracky over the line for another $50 mil, this time for a new resort on Skeleton Cove which..... 

.....failure as has happened in the past. "Did you sterilise it before you used it?" asked Turbo and Kim said No, why?

"Well you've ruined it then" said Turbo "It'll never work now, you'll have to ourder another batch, and the prices are rising so fast." Kim fell over himself ordering more.

Meanwhile Tim Tom Track had decided he wanted bigger bombs, and, as many Australians do, anglicise his name to Timmy Tommy Tracky and flew into Brisbane where Anna locked him .............

Not a good day in Victoria today with 120 new cases today and the first two deaths, women in their 40s and 60s at home.

The woman in her sixties died just two weeks after being infected.

Of today's 120 cases only 20 were isolating after they felt sick.

All of the outbreaks which occurred two or three weeks ago have been managed, and testing has been running at the rate of 50,000 plus per day, so very good intel.

However, there are deep clusters of community transmission - people moving around their turf infecting other people, usually family or friends.

The Burnet Institute modelling says that the current lockdown has saved about 6000 cases to date.

However, based on the last two days the numbers will go up, not down.

So the Melbourne lockdown, with some minor changes will continue until September 23.

•        Public playgrounds will reopen with conditions
•        There is a relaxation for in home childcare where one parent works

Schools will not reopen in Term 3

•  Year 12s will all be vaccinated for the GAT by October 5

Other Outdoor Recreational Acitvities, which I would assume includes flying  are expected to resume around September 23, depending on the number of people vaccinated.

These are my notes from the State Conference this morning; the DHHS site should have the details.

Regional Victoria except Shepparton will end lockdown next week, because the Covid patterns there are different.

.....of State and Mayors and bestow Titles on them. He was interrupted by Cappy laughing and Cappy explained that you had to be a Governor to do that, so he stormed off, jumped in the Land Cruiser ad headed out from base.

He'd been driving for hours over a sea of red dirt when, coming over a rise he saw a beautiful golden colour.

He'd found Caesium!

He radioed OT to send in the mining equipment fast!

OT found a battery cart, jump started the Company BTD6 and set out for the Caersium claim which Turbine had already named ............................

6 minutes ago, KRviator said:

At the latest Census I am officially classed as Unemployed. I'm am not. I have a job, I just can't get to it. I was off work 11 months last year, will probably eclipse that this year/round with that arsehole in WA pushing his Covid Zero mantra because he's stuffed the healthcare system there, and personally, will now probably lose well over $200,000 overall in lost leave, wages, superannuation, etc. And I am just one person.

 

You think you're alone in that?

We're in a  Pandemic; Come up with an alternative that doesn't involve tens of thousands of deaths.

6 minutes ago, KRviator said:

Except it is not achievable - we have demonstrated that time and time again. It gets out from HQ, it gets out from the staff driving the aircrew to the hotel, it gets out from the HQ security guard snogging one of the inmates. It doesn't matter how it gets out, only the fact that it does!

Come up with an alternative.

6 minutes ago, KRviator said:

And each time it gets out, states like QLD and WA shut their domestic border's throwing the country into disarray. Granted closing the international border was a smart move.

What's the difference; When you look at the top five countries in the world, all scoring zero deaths to date, they isolated. If you isolate the Covid-19 can't spread.

If you isolate family members can't travel.

6 minutes ago, KRviator said:

Yes, take advantage of our nation's island status. But we are a bloody nation we are not 7 different countries.

We're not a Nation, we're a Commonwealth of, effectively, six Nations (We call them States but they all have their own laws and all have their appointed Heads of State) and two Territories.

You can't be half pregnant; if all States and Territories are following a policy of Separation, which results in the minimum numbers of family members lost, it follows that the movement of people has to be stopped.  The people recruited by the Media each day to tell a story about their plight, have never added at the end of their story "Of course, if I and people like me were all allowed to cross the border Covid would be spread across the border too, and kill your family members who are also suffering, but saving their families lives.

[STOP PRESS: The extraordinary power of the NES to reach all corners of the world through its millions of readers, is shown here by the result's of the outrageous attack by the Track family on Turbine Industries.

A spokesperson of Turbine Industries, Cooper Turbine IV, speaking on condition of anonymity, responded to Xi's statement an hour ago by saying "Xi wouldn't know if a tram was up him unless the conductor rang the bell" and "The Tracks are all dirt"]

. Turbo was in shock. Many baseless criticisms had been thrown at him over the years, sometimes with a grain of truth, but mostly through being taken out of context. This hurt for a direct descendant of Florence Nightingale but to suggest putting him into a Leyland was beyond the pale.

Who was this Track family?

For that matter, where was Western Australia?

Turbo came up with a plan to .................................................................................................................................................................

6 hours ago, facthunter said:

Anyhow maybe Onetrack was really flying when the big gibber did the damage. Availability of rear windows is not as good as windscreens either.

 

When the kids were young I did a lot of trips from Broken Hill to Innamincka then down the Stzelecki track to Lydhurst and up to Marree, and around the campfires the vehicles, trailers, tools etc got a minute going over on how to prevent the mishap the person has just experienced. The first stonegards were three truck mudflaps across the back of the towing vehicle usually touching the fround on bump. These fell out of favour quickly because they seemed to flick stones up and break windows. Over the years the guards seem to habe morphed into a canvas/plastic shield along each side of the trailer A Frame canted out at the top which bats away most of them. When we got to the dirt our travel mode went from getting somewhere to looking around for some excitement, so our speed dropped to about 40 - 60 km/hr and for years we had no shields and no breakages, but on one trip up the Birdsville track which had a carpet of big missiles we shattered a rear window halfway to Birdsville. I cautioned the kids not to slam the doors, and always to have one window slightly ajar before closing to prevent blowing the shattered window out because there was going to be no plywood until we got to Broken Hill.A week or so later, with the kids heartily sick of me yelling just as they heaved a door rady to slam it we made Broken Hill so I stopped outside town and swept a bucket or two of red dirt and bulldust out of the rear and the floor pans. I forgot about opening a window, and gave the drivers door a good slam and POOF!!!! shattered glass all over the place. The so and sos cheered!

......planned and executed with Turbo in his younger days, particularly the executed. He was, after all, technically a Russian.

Not many people know that when Petrov ran for his life out of Australia, it was the result of HT giving him a Molotov Cocktail invitation to a function where there was no dress code and ........

34 minutes ago, aro said:

I'm still interested to see who is saying that, because it doesn't seem to correspond with reality.

 

It seems most likely to come from the NSW or federal government, who are frantically spinning trying to convince people that this is all OK - but that's not what the experts are saying, or what you can figure out for yourself if you compare the situation here to overseas.

 

Gladys said a week or 2 back "We thought Australia was different." Not if you had any sense. We are not different, but Libs in NSW still seem to be operating on the assumption that we are.

It was someone reporting on NSW on Channel 9 news so you might have a point.