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......how to start a Jabiru at the first start of the day.

He just couldn't get it; in fact one day the Kapooka students were amazed to see the landscaping tractor towing his Jab around the taxyways in a vain effort to make it fire. "I can't understand it" he yelled "The Vauxhall would always start with a tow, even if ...............

26 minutes ago, RFguy said:

why was that guy in the last video- (view of 29R)  why did he come in at such a steep bank close to the ground with low airspeed and the crazy flare- attempt to straighten it on to the paved strip  ?

had he run out of  airport boundary space ? sudden gusty wind ?

I would have  said screw the paved strip, if I'm out of height and airspeed, I'm landing in the direction I am facing, the grass will do, whatever is under me.....

That was a forced landing at a City Airport, where your coices consist of Golf Courses (Winners) or streets (powerlines, street signs), roofs Cosco is perfect at Morrabbin - big spans to sag when they are hit, or drains as long as you slide along them - a different world to Cowra. Notice that his roll was very small, Cherokee has fantastic brakes.

.....Scottish, but I've heard him speak French and German, and Turbo just answered an Election Candidate in Pashta, which led to the Candidate reaching for his Australian Flag and Holy Book.

Cappy didn't answer; he just had that dreamy look in his eyes as if ................

...always tried to land feet first.

"It woundna happened to hum ef he's landed Haid furt like he been telt, and..............................

....and it was at that point he was able to take off again without the need of an aircraft. His trajectory was a perfect arc, and halfway through it he knew he was going to ..................

Hold the nose up in a Cherokee, Elevators for speed, Throttle for altitude (ESTA) let it sink into ground effect, Yoke comes back, back, wheels touch  Yoke back to stomach, and you can do landings that the passengers can't feel.

Pont the nose at the ground, lnd nosewheel first and you'll set up oscillation every time. The Cherokke has one of the toughest nose gears in the business but it's like hitting it with a big hammer.

First two videos show nose down attempts with consistent failure.    Third video shows how you can throw a Cherokee at the ground nose up and taxi away.

.......whispers.   .......let's go with ........a shudder [avref].

Unlike many aviators today Turbo didn't persevere after failure No 5 which landed him in a Riverina Marijuana field. The aircraft wasn't damaged in the landing but was a write off after all the SG shot hit it. Turbo escaped by swinging though the orange trees at low level until ........

.......Turbo who sincerely apologises for the missing .......... . (full stop)

Turbo was simply grieving for his grandfather who perished in the aftermath of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

On the bright side his grandfather had been able to mail a pack of Honda race engine drawings just before he dies and Turbo used them with great success several decades later to build a V6 aero engine which ...........  .............  ........... ..............

..............The fateful message to Hiroshima Bay which was ignored, and a footnote to History was made the next morning when the Mayor of Hiroshima, hearing the band of the Atom Bomb said "WHAT THE XXXX WAS THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!.

The two floors of the Japan Bank on Main Street were punched down to ground level that morning, but during the day the rubble was cleared, Japan Bank agreed to host the other Banks which had used timber construction, and multi-bank business resumed in the shell of the Japan bank at 1 pm the following afternoon. The acid rain trail is stll there on the inside wall.

They couldn't have achieved yjos remarkable feat along and not many people know that it was Turbine Scrutible Orient Earth Moving that cleared the hundreds of tonnes of rubble away and cleared the way for the armoured cars to come from Toklyo. They probably could have used the trains because no one in Hiroshima was really in the mood to rob a bank in those two days. Today there's a plaque nearby labelled "Hypocenter" which was to be the name of Walter Turbine's Department Store.

Can we have a How to or Support section link please?

Somewhere we can easily link to which will tell us how to find the parts of the site we use, and how to set our preferences (it could be called preference)

For the past week or so, using my laptop the landing page is a 2006 post by a now-deceased aircraft builder (as against the most popular active forums.

That changed this morning to no forums visible just reference material, which is a great resource as a library, but not something I'd go to from year to year.

If there was an obvious link it wouldn't matter how many changes there were, we could go straoght to the link and update.

or an "outlanding".

I've said.this before but I'll repeat it.

The Commonwealth does own some airports in the Capital cities but hasn't sold any in recent times.

We still have to worry about the lessees because not all of them are fair

Where an airport/airfield is owned by a Council or owned privately converting it to Residential Zoning can produce spectacular results.

In a recent hearing in Melbourne a developer admitted that he had bought 100 Ha of land f0r $70,000 at farm rate.

Once it was rezoned from Farming to Residential prepared for housing lots he sold it for $55 million - a 785 fold gain

So that's the prize and people apparently are quite happy to drop a million or two around to smooth the deal through.

If the Council or the owner has owned the land for a certain period they have what's called Existing Use Rights, so if they don't want their airfield/airport rezoned that's it.

That doesn't stop land around them being rezoned, buf if they were smart enough to include a condition which gives them the right to fly around the circuit patterns their survival is even stronger.

There have been recent cases where airfields were saved using Existing Use Rights. (I'm not going to say who they are; they can release that information if they want.)

There have been many, and I mean many cases lost where the owner has not made this claim even after they had been advised it would save them.

One of the favourite tricks of a developer is to get close top the Council and say he wants to build a transport hub or 2000 homes and it will bring 3000 jobs etc to town; he just needs the local airfield rezoned, the land next to it or whatever the deal involves.

His next step is to get close enough to the Council to get the Planning people to come up with a proposed "Activity Precinct" or similar innocent name and a Planning  Scheme Amendment is drawn up to send to the Minister for Planning. The airfield people get wind of it, arc up, and the Council generously calls for submissions, consultations etc and gravely writes down all the complaints. The airfield owner says this isn't fair etc and they know they have him. They generously give him some reassurances and the owner figures that better than nothing so he signs off on the Activity Precinct which goes to the Minister and is approved.

The all important thing is this a new Scheme a few days old. The Airfield owner has no existing use rights to this Scheme which allows for Residential/Industrial etc and the value, as we saw above goes up multiple times - usually a minimum of tenfold overnight and the airfield is sold.

That's just a general story, becaise each State has its variations, but never let go of Existing Use Rights. If the developer wants a conference, raise it at the conference before it can be expunged.

22 minutes ago, Old Koreelah said:

The feds gave airports to local government; we’ve all seen how much they valued them.

which airports?

............Naval force.

And finally after decades waiting for sealed files to be opened to the public the true story of the end of WW II Pacific can be told.

The US Navy were XXXXXX in the Pacific; there's no kinder way to explain it, when Bill Turbine  came to them with a code breaking algorithm years before computers had been invented. He said he could decode all messages sent by the Japanese defence forces. He said if he could  place Australians on Guadalcanal and the other islands as "coastwatchers" with 3 x 30 binoculars the only cost would be their food so they could keep up a false chatter about mythical ships, hopefully a few Japanese to fool the enemy into thinking there could be observed. All Bill needed was an operating US submarine so he could drop the guys off and get them food. Admiral Nimitz agreed and the secret Turbine Marines were formed. A group of girls from the Wagga Wagga Services Club would listen in as Bill's secret radio decoded the Japanese reports, which as anyone knows who has worked with the Japanese are the most comprehensive in the world.

Quickly Turbo Senior turned the war around and soon the Navy was heading for the land of Nippon (the name was later changed to Nissan because the Americans couldn't pronounce it, but the change failed and today Amercians call iot NeeSarn)

Turbo Snr was smart enough to download Ozrunways to his sub's navigation system and beat the US Navy into Hiroshima Bay. Here Bill parked the sub facing the entire Japanese fleet tied up at the Kure Naval base. They were sitting ducks, just like Hiroshima; it was Deja Vu all over again.

The Admiral looked out and said "Whadda ya want?" (in japanese of course) Bil Turbine replied "This is the United States Navy; Stand down your ships or I'll destroy your base"    "XXXX off" yelled the Admiral turning to walk away, but something made him turn back.

"How you going to do that?" he asked

Bill was caught; this guy knew US submarines; most couldn't hit the side of a haystack at two feet

Confident again, he said "Put it this way, if you don't surrender a B29 is coming over tomorrow and they're going to drop an atomic bomb on you.

"I'll take the bomb' replied the Admiral who the following day.......................

14 minutes ago, Old Koreelah said:

Years ago our Federal government gave away control of these vital community assets.

Another monumental blunder by the Liberal National Party coalition.

Really? The LNP gave away Cohuna?

....Rex Harrison in the film My Fair Lady who played the part of a Professor who could teach his sudents how to bend the English language to make them a different person.

And Turbo had succeeded with Cappy teaching him to blend a nonsensical word into a sentence in such a way that it offended no one. Notice good readers that there have been no laugh emojis or angry posts from people who changed the subject or put a communist spin on it; nothing but happiness and all readers perfectly understanding the meaning of the XXXXwit sentence that Cappy wort wrote.

Not many people know that it was actually Turbo teaching the Actors how to speak and Dazza teaching them how to spell when My Fair Lady (but Dazza had to be sent out on errands because he swore too much and Rex Harrison was picking it up when he sang, which........

One of the scenes shot after Turbo had Rex Harrison up to speed.

......Kahala Hilton where Turbo spends his Melbourne winters.

He takes his Thruster out to Nu‘uanu Pali (known to Mainlanders as Pail lockout) backs the Chevy out over the cliff, and launches, heading straight down, which is the only way the Thruster can gain speed. He flies downhill all the way out to the highway where his chauffeur picks him up, loads the Thruster, and off they go to watch the Hilton Show which is well known around the world. Elvis sat next to him one night and he'd said "any chance of just sitting in your own seat?" before he realised who it was, and they spend the rest of the night drinking beers and eating hamburgers and jamming, and Turbo wort a song for Elvis called......................

31 minutes ago, IBob said:

One potential weakness in any governance system is how it goes about choosing it's leadership candidates.
The practical reality we have at present, even in a very simple systems like NZ, is that candidates must embrace and a pursue a career as politicians in order to be nominated. This effectively screens or filters out almost of the populace, leaving us with a very small pool of individuals.

 

While I don't pretend to have a clear understanding of the US electoral system, I would suggest that the screening there is far more demanding in various ways, with large amounts of money further complicating the process.

And the results of the screening are what you would expect: individuals who fitted through the screens in various ways, who successfully exhibited certain political behaviours and ambitions over a period of time.

Good points; it's worth a study of how just a handful of Chicago votes organised by Joe Kennedy got his son into the White House, and what happened when he didn't deliver.

Sully is a pilot, Bette is a singer and actress skilled at repeating a script.

If you want to know what's going on best look carefully at the magicians not their flash  cards.

That includes the end game of both parties which have been hinted at, but not confirmed.

...prow of the sub racing towards them.

"Wait for it......WAIT for it!" yelled Cappy as Turbo grabbed the one paddle left.

Suddenly there was an explosion of white water; spray flew hundreds of feet into the air and when it subsided thye sub was nowehere to be seen, just two heads bobbing in the oily water.

"The old Type VIIs couldn't tolerate full throttle for more than twenty seconds before the through-bolts let go"  he said "and when they did they usually burst out through the hull. I noticed through the binoculars a rust line all round the bulkhead and figured the force would knock the side out of the old girl and it did."

Turbo was in awe of Cappy's great knowledge.

Cappy reached under the flap of the Cowley Float; "Fancy a gin?" he asked.

Two days and four cases of gin later they washed up on the beach at Waikiki and the locals were so impressed they wort a song about it, which...........................

........"Did you notice that Bull was familiar with Nazi weaponry?" (NTTIAWWT).

A shiver ran up Hilo's back; "My God" he thought, "the bone structure, a moustache!!!" and he froze.......

.......play the pokies once again.

They fitted the bungs and a king tide came up, and 88 reversed off the beach which wasn't that hard since all he could hit was the Southern Ocean.

However, the next part was a disaster because he was one of those who could only navigate with ozrunways, and the voyage was about to go down in history as "Voyage to Antarctica, but now CO1 was building inside the old sub and no one had noticed. 88's arms fell down and...........

.........jettison weight"

Turbo heard a faint cry from behind.

"What did you DO!!!!!!!?" he asked Cappy, but Cappy just stared at him, horror on his face.

88 hit the huge Bass Strait at an angle, and with the help of the Bernoulli (Avref) effect of his big gut, achieved the skipping stone effect and landed on Cape Barren Goose Island.

There were tens of thousands of geese walking around, fresh nests, and the air was full of honking.

He had a permanent supply of food.

"I wonder what species of birds they are?" thought 88, but he was interrupted by..............................

....groundloop which shook 88, hilo and antone else who'd been clinging to the delicate craft, and off they went again.

"Could you pick these bullheads out?" whimpered Cappy, and flying with his knees Turbo extended a pair of needle nose pliers to full arms length and, holding his nose with the other hand made a series of grabs which took more flesh than bullheads, but thats what friends are for, and soon they were on their way to..........

.......made for superb pilots like Turbo, who had been trained by the grandson of Biggles, Roger Wingover, who'd had his name changed by deed poll. Turbo grabbed Cappy by the collar to readjust the centre of gravity and the T500 rode on the step like a 747.

They found themselves over YSFK and Cappy said...........................