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........Mementos from "The Pass" as it was known, including the notepaper where Cappy had had to write over and over again "I must not cower down just because a Ghurka lifted his head in the other trenches", and the Teddy Bear he kept under his pillow and .........

I hadn't heard that one. The new model releases by GM to the Dealer Network were conjured up and run by the Advertising Agency. Years later they set up the release function down at Lang Lang took the dealers down in coaches, and after a short preamble about how the model was going to beat Ford a helicopter could be heard in the distance. It dropped a Falcon in front of the viewing platform allegedly from 500 feet to cheers of the assembled dealers. The Agencies had to create spectacular events, but were not engineers. The all time winner was International Harvester's Agency release at the Chevron Hotel on the Gold Coast, at that time the go to hotel on the coast. It was the ACCO A with an all-new cab, so they had to do something spectacular. They paid to knock a hole in the ball room wall, built a platform outside (money was no object for new releases) papered over the wall and craned the truck up to the platform (all of that was engineered) The object was for the intro music to rise at the end of the presentation, a truck would be heard starting up outside, it would burst through the wall and the driver would hit the brakes on the ballroom floor inches from the front row. They practised over and over again until the driver had the count and burst through the paper and stop on a chalk line every time. On the night before the event an agency guy thought the seating area looked too spartan so they brought in a carpet for the floor. Everything went well until the driver braked. The carpet slid over the floor and the truck went into the first two rows of dealers, pushing them back into the row behind. Luckily no one was hurt.

.........circle customers. In the beginning when it was only Cappy shooting he was missing most of the unders, so the tablets had the sporting chance so ingrained in the clay target community, and merchants would pick up the fragments of overs and take them back to their homelands where proto-archaeologists (sorry for the big word) would piece some of them over time. One day Nebuchadnezzer II came through the clay-station and said to Turbo "What's this about a man from Nicaea being able to fly like a bird.?" Turbo, who was in the process of quietly buying the patent from Icarus Recreational Aviation Inc, despite the fact that old Ic had flown up near the sun and melted the wax on the feathers, changed the subject and looking bored, said, "I sent out a Circular Tablet (Circular for safety messages) but those XXXXXX Philistines must have broken it." Neb II like many, decided Turbo was just kidding for fame, and tramped home, built a Recreational Aircraft with clay, feathers and wax, and that's all we have to say about Neb II. Meanwhile Turbo had quietly walked his camel out of the village in the night and headed for the country of the Araldites. The West Araldites had been making recreational aircraft using a sticky sap from the ASAP tree but it also melted, and there were a lot of fatalities. The East Araldites had seen these flying and quietly photographed one during the night. Arald Aphrodites, the leading builder lost his life when his adhesive melted and Turbo was able to buy the design from the family for three shekels. Turbo as we know from the Cat Farm invention was a deep thinker. "I wonder what would happen if I mixed East Araldite wax with West Araldite wax?" And that, dear NES readers is the history of Araldite C:turbineglue 57BC still used today in.................

NES readers will notice about halfway up from the bottom and just to the right of centre, a recessed circle which Turbo drew freehand when he was 13. It marks the start of a Quatrain "The boy stood on the burning deck, a pocket full of crackers, a spark went down his trouser leg and blew off both his"... and that's the edge of the tablet. ..............Ben did that has had people scratching their heads for years, and one day we may ........

...."came out" as a male. Not many people know that Bletchley Park was the beginning of Women's Lib; it took decades to catch on because they all spent their time gossiping instead of breaking codes; Ben was brilliant but in a weak moment showed them the algorithm to beat men, and that wrecked it for everyone. Why......... NES reader will have noted Cappy's instant recognition when Turbo occasionally drops into his ancestral language; he's like a seagull on a potato chip.

A. In-an-engine-we-are-assessing-less-fuel=less-power. B. On another engine, say a "modern injected 2 stroke outboard" with its fraction of fuel - if it's given less fuel there will be less power.

Less fuel = less power. That's acceptable in many stationary engines, but usually an aircraft is looking for more power.

...they all turned to each other and started saying "We didn't realise that" Eventually with sone prodding........

"Crappy turned and said "A pox on you Ahlox (Shakespearref), for while I am prepared to grant you a conditional coffee-drinking & flying mateship, I cannot entertain attacks on the TurgidPlonker even if he isn't entertaining." This is the Riverinan, magnificent in his generosity, defends his friends to the death, but always watch for that smack when the tail goes past. As old pilot from Sydney once said "They've got the personality of a pieballed camp drafter!"

.........dropping in to his Captain Cook authoritative voice...........Goldylox could see a four hour sermon coming up and he was busy trying to fit crossover pipes to the latest RFS trucks which was all sirens and no drive wheels. So he started to talk about the Bombay days. As some of us know to our cost, Loxy is a rabid researcher. Nothing escapes him. He even found out Turbo when in Primary school had tied his girfriend's knickers to the school flagpole. Cappy quickly changed the subject and remembered he had to be out at the airfield polishing up his round outs ..........

........more complications. Standard engines produced to do a job for a long life with basic maintenance and adjustments usually have one carburettor and a rough cast manifold that allows gas to pass, and complete with sprags, bulges and other imperfections. Where I come from is taking that engine and modifying it to produce double or more power. This involves throwing away the shared manifold and replacing it with, sometimes, stand-alone cylinder processing of gases to take advantage of pulsing, as Skippy mentions. The key process is to have tube lengths to optimise sonic wave directions. Joining the stand-alone manifolds would interrupt the sonic waves, lowering power. I tried to make the point before that the Rotax pedigree comes from light weight/high power engine applications wit some degree of development above the standard engine class..... Just how far developed it is, I haven't researched, but if it is using fuel packing design at all joining the stand alone environments may result in less power. Power being more important than the very short time an aircraft engine is idling. Since so far no one has come up with precise figures or explanations, I'd be wary. So far no one has come up with any real figures.

Let's just get to the centre of the pipe claim.

OK, now what does the flywheel balance have to do with a pipe connecting Carburettors?

Well, what would we do to check the balance of a machined circular flywheel - or why are so many Rotax flywheels out of balance and why would that be relevant to fitting this pipe in lieu of fine tuning the carburettors?

OK, accepting that, were these "out of balance" flywheels observed with the flywheel in its place, or off the engine/crank balanced on knife edges or electronically?

Was this imbalance measured with the flywheel bolted and tensioned in place?

.......hampoo. Jacinta was giving one to every CFA volunteer as a small token of thanks to help them clean up after fighting the fires for 25 hours every day. She had mistaken Cappy for a hose volunteer. As NES readers know, Cappy wouldn't volunteer to get out of bed in the morning unless it was to build his kit Jabiru 235. Cappy of course had a latte friendship with Goldilocks the Fireman and every morning they'd sit in the Bayliss St joint and slag Turbo and call us mextorians. Turbo, a close friend of Jacinta, had informed her of this, and also that Cappy was always coming on to girls. While "girls' might be a stretch in the Victorian Cabinet, the 50% share had grown to 98% squalling females, who'd cut you down if you didn't smile and clap............

........you're an Allen key?" She gave Cappy the coldest glare he had ever seen; it was saying "Land Tax, Land Tax" and frightened Cappy so much that he blurted, "I'm from New South Wales" This really tipped the bucket over and ........

...... Cappy, in the past, has often tried on stunts so he can be the last or the first, once jumping into Paul Keating's lap, but readers can be assured that the show will go on. It was just a glitch on Turbo's lap top that kept the dots in the feed, then spat them out here as Jacinta ....................................................

.......Country Fire Authority members letters of appreciation to Jacinta.

".........Formula One people were always a little bit different with their technology. Jack Brabham, although a world champion would walk into the Repco workshops and yell out to Phil Irving "Where's the Injun!. Phil, who could smoke a cigarette so precisely without touching it that when he finished it, would drop his, ash, thinking they were under attack." "In your case, Oscar, you raced Go Karts from the age of three, and spelling wasn't a number one priority in that group. Just look how they spelled cart, and no you can't drive the Corvette; you might break it. They both stood there a while looking at the carved Sequoia aircraft, and Oscar mused "I wonder where the Time-Travel (TT) module is located. Turbo grabbed a chisel and ...........

Yes it does, but some industries start with that, then extract more and more power flowing more carbies. Jetskis are a good example, much the same size hull, but currently selling models over 300 hp.

Anyone can be a comedian, but don't just tell lies to twist the truth. I did not say backfires were inevitable in a Rotax. Any engine can backfire. It's just plain ignorant to paint a picture of a manifold blowing an engine of the aircraft. We're talking about routine issues with engines here. Maybe a crossover pipe helps smooth idling, maybe its some other issue with the combination of equipment and layout. I worked with 4 carbies a lot and nothing beat careful adjustment there. Some people would use a vacuum balance, but having exactly the same length, optimum jetting, adjusting cables for smoothest idle will give that idle. No matter what you do, the cables will have minor reseating, adjustment in the bends etc, and this maybe is what the balance tube allows for, but the optimum is not to have out of tune settings.

.......the NES lapsed into silence at this profound statement by Mr Jones, or Jonesy as his mates called him. Interestingly, he was one of the pioneers of the Recreational Aircraft industry, living in a time when fathers would carve out a solid piece of wood into an aircraft (even though Wright Bros Exhibitions hadn't yet been started). These model aircraft flew extremely well - into Mum, the cat, the dog or the horse waiting patiently outside harnessed to the cart. Many carts were wrecked due to low flying aircraft. Turbine Jones thought on this as he read his Bible, and when he got to where Moses parteth the waters with just a speech, he decided to carve a full RA size aircraft from a Giant Sequoia. The finished design was beautiful when the carving was polished. He had a body contour seat, a ........

One says informative the other gives a caution but is unable to explain why.