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.................cries "NANCY!" and starts looking around for something more comfortable at the .................

What happened to James Knight was a very important lesson for all pilots, and I think an Air Safety Digest (decades later) analysed the flight with the benefit of hindsight, for future pilots.The Air Safety Digest is out of print now, but there are plenty of copies.

If you can't find the story, PM me and I'll see if I can.

...the homeless and poor.

Not many people know that in WW2 "inside leg length was code for I have a message for you. So if you were a partisan and your Contact was a Tailor, you'd go into his shop every morning and ask for the price of a suit. If the Tailor said "I have to check your inside leg length, you'd know he had new information and he would slip a piece of paper into your trouser leg as he flourished the tape.

Hi-Ho was one such partisan who risked his life for his country running messages from Headquarters in England to blow up a train, caut the throat or a particular Geerman of locase a case of Champagne. He didn't do it often because he and Nancy Wake were shacked up in a Chateau most of the time, but now and again .............

Interesting day yesterday; Lockdown for Wave 2 started in Melbourne on July 8 to reduce virus transmissions from the metropolitan area (shown on the map) to Vic country which is relatively free of virus, and also from the suburbs with high volume clusters to those with very low infection, so you can’t move out of your local area and spread the coronavirus. For example, yesterday I was in local Bunnings store, walked out of an aisle and two police were there with an I-Pad checking people to see if anyone was there from another suburb. The highly publicised woman who claimed she was bored after walking every street in Brighton was fined for travelling about 8 km to the Tan.

So it’s not surprising that the Moorabbin Training Area has been deserted for two weeks. There might have been one R22, and a couple of VH aircraft, but yesterday the air slowly filled with aircraft, like a repeat of Pearl Harbour, so I decided to go and check what was on the radar.

While I was there for about 30 minutes:

Two aircraft left Moorabbin and landed at Lethbridge (outside the lock down zone)

Two Moorabbin aircraft cruised down the Mornington Peninsula then crossed the Bay to the Bellarine Peninsula (outside lockdown zone)

One Point Cook aircraft went down past Avalon, turned near Geelong and crossed from the Bellarine Peninsula to the Mornington Peninsula went east past Tooradin then south east towards east Gippsland.

Another one from Point Cook crossed to Mornington Peninsula and kept going.

Another Point Cook aircraft ran the same route around Avalon then turning away from Geelong and well out over the Southern Ocean (out of sight from shore) then tracked west towards SA.

One training school was operating with multiple aircraft doing return legs out to Pakenham and back etc They may have been single occupant, but two people have already been booked for failing to meet the social distancing requirement after a country cop heard them over the town and drove out to the airport to welcome them.

Just what the reason was for this explosion is uncertain, but they must surely be attracting attention.

There was a SAPOL aircraft cruising up and down the SA Border with the right wingtip on the border line in a beautiful display of precision flying at a steady 148 knots, but no sign of Victorian aircraft west of Hamilton.

......perving on yourself without someone going to the Diversity Manager, who usually.....

There are still too many people who are stuffing things up for everyone & tying up resources like the woman in the car on the news last night rabbiting on about her rights & holding up traffic for 10 minutes & another idiot carrying on about it all being a hoax. They should have been arrested for obstruction. Across the ditch they haven't had a community transmission case for 85 days & then an idiot family climbed over the fence at their quarantine hotel & took off. Luckily a cop saw one of them & 4 of the 5 were caught quickly but the other was at large for 8 hours & had travelled 200 km. The process tied up a lot of police resources incluging POLair. They all face court today. If it was me I'd lock them up in a police cell for another 14 days & make them pay reparation for the time & cost to find them as well as the on going cost to find everyone they contacted during their stupid act. Then they'd know how serious it is.

That's probably going to be the pattern for a while; an infected woman attended several churches in Sydney on the one day.

Eve Black who forced her way through the check point is getting a visit and explanation of what other people's rights are according to an Assistant Commissioner, but even in Melbourne about 7% are flouting the efforts of Health Officials by breaching safe separation. Out case numbers have come down two days in a row, but we're going to get some serious daily death totals - 7 yesterday, 5 of them Aged Care, so you can see once this aged care cluster is finished in a couple of weeks there is potential for a drop in total deaths. 19 of 41 people in ICU yesterday were under 59.

........plunged into the neckline of a particular beauty with long black hair and shapely legs, knocking the wig off and the false teeth out and exposing....................CAPPY! who'd just spent two hours shaving and tanning his legs, and was not...........................

........diplomatically witted. Planey knew that the relationship between Turbo and Dan was as close as the relationship between Dand and Scomo and as close at the relationship between Scomo and Xi. A good example was the Roads and Belts programme coming to Victoria. Turbo had started it off with four lane roads from Melbourne to the Houseboat at Eildon, the Mt Buller ski resort, the other houseboat on the Murray (upstream from Remnark) and a few others we can't mention, and Melboune's clothing stores will be full of belts for decades.

They turned their attention to the Virus which seemed to be a sort of poor man's Jabiru..................

.......knew he was finished and quietly escorted him back to his room where he collapsed on the bad.

"There were NINETEEN" of them he gasped, "NINETEEN! Couldn't you have given me a hand?"

BUT Turbo and kept his 1.5 metres social distance, NES possums, and was free of the virus, and........

Dopey Dan has gotta justify his actions somehow!? There will always be people who don't accept the tyranny being dished out, human nature!

I thought by now anyone who said they came from Melbourne would know these actions are specified by the CHO and Health Commander and the Premier manages the scenario he's given each day, and would know that's becaise we are in a declared state of emergency.

1214 fines in the past fortnight.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/one-in-five-fines-handed-to-those-caught-leaving-locked-down-zones-20200723-p55esa.html

which includes these two:

Torquay police Sergeant Stephen Bull said while most people they had checked had been doing the right thing, a 49-year-old Albert Park woman was fined $1652 and escorted from the area on Wednesday afternoon after she was caught shopping and dining in the town.

"She’d taken public transport down here. She was sick of walking around her lockdown suburb, like what we saw with the woman from Brighton the other day," he said.

A woman dubbed "Karen from Brighton" shot to social media fame last week after she told Nine News that she had gone to the Tan in Melbourne's CBD to exercise because she was "sick of walking the same streets".

"You know, I've done all of Brighton," she said.

....Security Guard who had been infected with Covid-19.

The problem started when the SG touched it.

"Sir, you cannot flash this inside good sir" said Mahatma "Outside I am having no problem"

"My ancestor, Captain Cook didn't flash his, and he was killed at either the Pineapple Park Hostel or Mamalahoa Hot Tubs and Massage at Kealakekua Bay on the island of Hawaii. If he'd flashed it he'd still be alive today so to speak."

(Turbo was in awe of Captain Cooks navigation skills and had played him a complimnent by spraying "XXXX he was good on the stone walls of his cottage in Melbourne.)

"Since then, all his descendants have carried knives like this" and he flashed it again.

His mistake was jutting out his chin and staring with his bullfrog eyes at the Indian, but in doing so he'd crossed that 1.5 metre limit.

"I am understanding your dilemma Sir" said Mahatma "they killed my ancestor too. He discovered Hawaii, and his gravestone is still there marked 350 BC, the year he died."

The Captain was now with virus and unknowingly he walked back into the Golf Club saw Brine and clapped him on the shoulder and Brine was with virus.

There was a chorus of greetings from across the room where Mavis and the girls from Wagga were celebrating their gold victory over the South Australians, and of course the Captain, being a ladies man walked over and left them all with virus.

Mavis and the girls had to play another tournament in Griffith the next day, and were allocated partners....................

If people are allowed out and about to attend to their occupations, does that mean a street-walker can still work?

No, that’s been announced.

.......furtively flash..........

Not general fines , Travel violation fines.

I think most people can talk their way out of a travel fine... there's a million excuses you can use ! (sick mum, feeding animals on holiday property , fictitious work, etc,etc.

Depends where you are. Several cases have made the papers around Melbourne.

Earlier this week a couple of women sneaked across the border from Connewirricoo 20 km into SA to play golf. The local cops went out to the Naracoorte Gold Club to check for Vic number plates and fined them each $1650.00

.....schools, where the kids can go to learn how to spell and count without using their fingers and toes, sewerage in the cities and towns, and electric light in places, not to mention.......

Channel 9 News has just claimed Victoria as a disaster. That's not exactly what the President of the AMA who has been sticking his oar in with his opinions over the last couple of days said, but if people are worried about this, there is a big increase in numbers of cases in one industry sector and inevitably because of percentages there will be a big increase in deaths "in Victoria."

What has actually happened is an explosion of infections in Aged care facilities, alleged to be due to the financial model of only employing nursing staff for a few hours each day, which resulted in nurses working for multiple nursing homes each day. So where a nurse became infected they didn't spread it in one nursing home, they spread it in three or four, hence the numbers. At the same time there are allegations that staff were not given PPE, and one allegation that kitchen staff were not made to wear PPE because they were "not in contact with the patients."

It's too late to help the infected patients now, but relatively easy to prevent the same thing happening again.

I find police cannot be trusted with discretion unnecessary and somewhat offensive.

Unfortunately that's not the first comment and it typical of what drags this site down and turns people away.

In the pandemic the police and our defence troops have been standing in the front line and patiently advising people on what is safe.

For their trouble they have been abused, called "jacks" etc, have had to stand out in the winter weather getting what food and drink they can, finding what toilet facilities they can, and running the risk of becomeing infected and taking the disease home to their loved ones.

As a result of one Melbourne woman leaving lockdown in Melbourne and travelling across to the town of Orbost, and while infected, visting several shops there is now a cluster in Orbost which includes the local police officer. Country people will know what it means to lose your local cop at a time like this.

During the Stage 4 lock down of the nine Melbourne towers, police had to man the perimeters and put up with abuse from all sorts of people including those "poor" people who had children in the Covid-linked and expensive Al-Taqua school in the northern suburbs. They had to bring in mesh fencing to lock these residents in after continuous escapes by potentially infected people. Even after this two Sudanese climbed over the fencing and made a run for it and had to be run down and caught by multiple police. In spite of this their efforts were rewarded by a reasonably fast all-clear from most of the towers after infected people were transferred. On the other hand the most heart warming story was about a little old lady with a 14 year old blind dog who wasn't allowed out to walk it each night to do its business. The video shows the cops picking it up each night and walking it for her.

..........set the GPS.

And so the story of the Bechcraft Staggerwing spraying Melbourne with possum p!ss was born.

The one thing the South Balinese OT hadn't counted on was Turbine Beverages' "heather:- flavoured mountain spring water.

Years of logging had nearly decimated the tine Leadbeater's possum whose habitat was the Mountain Ash used for building houses for the millenials who objected to any unsustainable environmental activity, but were the prime drivers for it (Catch 22 ref). Turbo had struck a deal to harvest millions of tonnes of old-growth forest in return for breeding one Leadbeater's possum for every tonne of timber chopped down. At first the project had run at a loss until Turbo came up with the idea of draining their cages into pipes and feeding them coffee every day (diureticref). Turbo named the product Heather-flavoured, mountain sping water on the grounds that nobody knew what heather tasted like anyway, amd the main customers were residents of Western Australia who were always at leat two hours behind the eastern States.

The people of Melbourne .....

Alas, my wishes are in the same category as not paying for smokers for smoke-induced conditions. Why do people want to protect those who are hell-bent on self-harm? ( There was a shock-horror bit in the paper some years ago about this awful surgeon who required people to give up smoking before he would operate on them. )

I think you'd be surprised, haven't you been asked if you drink or smoke when you're about to have some procedure in a hospital. Nothing is usually said, but I know a few who have been told Sorry, you're not eligible for a transplant, operation etc and they are sent away inevitably dying earlier than the rest of us.

The whole debacle is draconian! Masks not required last time, this time the boffins say its so! Continious Govt stuff ups we all pay for! Still at least the skies are open?

Have a look at the daily US death rate where they thought all you had to do was put on a mask.

The achilles heel of that is that people thought if they wore a mask they could mix shoulder to shoulder with others but they picked up droplets from money, untensils, tables store stock, groceries etc.

Then have a look at the Australian death rate where we were trained on "social" distancing - standing out of the range of aerosols and droplets.

We are better prepared to go the next step to masks for public mixing, without relying on them, because we sanitise our hands before we touch shop stock so we don't contaminate others and we sanitise them when we leave the store so we zap the droplets others may have left on the products/shelves etc.

It's a reasonable progression, but we know we still have to stay as far away from aerosols as we can, and we know masks leak.

Couple of interesting things this week:

CASA has been in neutral since lockdown 1 in terms who can fly and who can't in deference to each State's Chief Health Officer.

In Victoria the CHO calls the shots and the Deputy CHO is the Commander who gives the orders

This morning the Queensland Government demonstratedits Sovereign powers after 185 people were found to have entered Queensland then disappeared from Quarantine etc, announcing that it may deport them and ban them from ever returning to Australia, ie the Federal Government can deport or ban a non-Australian, and maybe a State might do the same thing to someone who wasn't a Queenslander but entered illegally.

Lockdown 2 looks to be almost 100% observed in Melbourne's east with the Moorabbin Training Area and D Zones tapering off pretty much to nothing for the last two or three days.

You would think that would make anyone in the air very obvious from ADS-B equipped aircraft, to radio traffic to simply looking up and seeing a C172 in the sky.

The Pilot and passenger of an aircraft that flew from Moorabbin to Mount Hotham will be fined.

.............a headine in the Hobart Mercury that some XXXXXXXMainlander had flown a Staggerwing under the Tasman Bridge. CASA vowed to get the blighter, but none of the thousands of spectators on the bridge that day coould remember the registration. They were cheering because not only had Turbo flown under the bridge, but in a slalom around every pillar. This was in the 1970s and years later a drink manufacture copied it and started a racing series, using collapsible pylons of course.

Not many people know, but Cappy borrowed the Staggerwing flew down to Hobart and took out a whole span after a crass misjudgement. The aircraft had to be resprayed.

Hi Ho's wonderful photo #12962 brings back memories of one of Turbo's misjudgements. He wasn't feeling well on the day he was supposed to fly under that low bridge; he lost attention for a minute on the run in, and jhit a skyscraper, which you can see in the background, bent. There is nothing tougher than a staggerwing. One of the rowers took Turbo to court for spring water into his eyes that he went blind. Turbo won the case after proving he had cause his own blindness in his youth.

........was incompatible with the KY we use as a base.

"JESUS!" said Benjamin (and many people on this site will realise the significance of that statement - things were SERIOUS) "that will........."

....and I flew the Beech Staggerwing through the frame of the Sydney Harbour Bridge."

"You mean under it, don't you?" interjected Cappy, and both Benyamin and Abrahamplanner rolled their eyes.

"No" said Abe gently "through it"

And Cappy was in awe and said "........