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i wonder how they will go recovering the aircraft this time?

What's this then?

No there isnt, those presenting numbers sway them whichever way suits them

Interesting about the one with the kids Ozzie; the pilot would not accept that he'd put them at risk, and nor did quite a few others, then the post was taken down, so no one learnt a lesson.

Dyna bolt a cheap boat winch to the concrete floor at a reasonable height to allow you to turn it standing up.

Just need to get someone with structural knowledge to design a triangular tube mounting so it doesn't pull out of the floor.

Cost maybe $150 - $200

Its not a good look for the livestock industry to have all these cattle dying slow horrible deaths without any good reason because the drought plan consists of doing nothing and waiting for rain.

And remember, the second mouse gets the cheese.

Speaking of the chicky-babe brigade, journalist Jill Stork wrote a great story in the Melbourne Age yesterday, which touched on an aspect that many males may not realise:

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/something-in-me-snapped-the-silent-fury-sparked-by-street-sexual-harassment-20151216-glomep

Yes, you can see straight through from one ear to the other at the moment:

http://www.abc.net.au/capricornia/topics/features.htm

I don't know when it will be broadcast. If it was today I missed and will miss it tomorrow.

However, the good thing is, it's in the can and it's telling your side of a story.

He's still trying to get through all the things you told him to say; the journalist's listening to the cricket on another line.

The ABC could replace "Blue Hills" if it used all this.

Our local ABC station is doing programs on hobbies. Very interesting they have been so far, so I phoned them today and suggested they cover flying and aircraft building. Guess what, they thought it a good idea and will be interviewing me tomorrow (Wednesday) at 4pm.That means I have to come up with as muh info as possible fairly quickly to put our hobby in a good light.

I have been loking on line for info about flying training organisations in Central Qld and there is not much. I didn't even see anything in Bundaberg, but I know there is a club there. Rocky I think does not do RAAus training.

 

If anyone knows who or where training is available please let me know. The area covered would be form the Sunshine Coast to Mackay I think. Mick if you see this what happened to John John or whoever it was.

 

If anyone has any bright ideas of what I should cover please let me know as I want to be able to do a good promotion job.

ATSB final report.

Just reading the earlier links, a few people may have asked themselves, "If this can happen to someone so experienced, what hope have I got"

Well the minimum legal height we can fly at is 500 feet above GROUND level (not as some culprit claimed after another crash, 500 feet on the altimeter)

Except for some mountain valleys, you won't find power lines above 500 feet.

Not only was this crash a complete waste of life, but there had been a very public warning in the local area a few years before when a guy, on his wedding day decided to follow the bridal car to the church in his helicopter - at road level of course as the highly skilled do, and killed himself on a power line which crossed the road.

Engine Phil?

While that's true without any doubt, I am not aware of any other countries doing stuff such as playing sport with infants such as throwing them up into the air and seeing which soldier can catch them with their bayonet.One of a number of some really low stuff carried on by the Japanese who saw all other forms of life, especially other Asians, as well beneath them.

The slaughtering of medical staff, even those treating Japanese soldiers at the time, is particularly low.

On the other hand, the propaganda fed to the Australian people by the Government, as governments used to do around that time is not confirmed by any but a few isolated incidents, and in particular, the book "The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop" which is a very comprehensive summary of the building of the Burma Railway does not show the atrocities alleged by the press.

While there's no doubt that Weary hated the Japanese and the way that working and living in the conditions was killing our men, he also realised the Japanese were dying too, and treated them with compassion and achieved the best possible outcome of a bad deal where they had all been sent to do a near impossible task under shocking conditions.

The book is well worth a read because he pulls no punches, but cuts away the propaganda that was spread at the time.

https://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780143003915/war-diaries-weary-dunlop-java-and-burma-thailand-railway-1942-1945

Turbs I'm sure you presented the best of Western courtesy, but too many don't. By our standards the Japanese have incredibly high standards of behaviour. One aspect is that they are too well mannered to tell us what they really think of us.

For example, we were travelling on a bus in Hiroshima. I had the train system down pat, but noticed on the bus the fare sign kept changing. After a while I realised it was getting lower and lower, then realised I should have taken note of the fare shown when I boarded because everyone paid the correct amount based on honour. When getting off I made an estimate and handed over enough cash to cover it. The driver said something to me but I couldn't understand him, but knew I had covered the cost.

The next morning at breakfast at the hotel, which was close to where I got off the bus, an American came over to me and said "I was on the bus with you yesterday; I've lived here for years and speak Japanese well, and after you got off the driver said he was mortified that he hadn't been able to explain that you had overpaid, and asked me, if I saw you to give you the change. It was all of about 30 cents.

...and still do.

I remember a nasty accident at Canberra in 1993 in a 2 seat Polish Mig 15 went in after a fire destroyed the controls. Ejection seats would have saved them.

Well he didn't specify a time, and they did go and drop one on Hiroshima which today we acknowledge, ended the war, but at the time, after the dogged fighting in the Pacific by the Japanese at each location, long after a normal army would have surrendered, the Nagasaki bomb was a hurry up which wasn't really necessary with the benefit of hindsight.

I've been at the hypocentre of both bombs, and at Nagasaki arrived there as several hundred school children were holding a memorial ceremony. After several moving hymns, they broke up into their school groups, and one group came over to me and asked if they could do a survey, probably for their English lessons. There was an "Interviewer" and a "writer" who filled in the form, and the teacher to prompt them - bout 20 in the group. It was a fairly routine discussion until they got to the question, "What are your thoughts as you visit here today?"

I'd just come from the Museum which is all glass construction with columns three stories high in which the life story of every person killed was written on A4 paper stacked the full three stories high, and we were standing in the hypocentre dish which is painted like a bullseye, and there were forty eyes on me who had just been through a very moving ceremony.........

Two things I'm very proud of; I've flown an aircraft up the Grand Canyon, and I've stood on the platform of the Arizona.

Hit the reply button in the box of the person you are commenting about, and then everyone knows who you were referring to.

I have issues with some of the comments in that post including it is on the wrong thread.

Having assessed all of the evidence I would say it suffered carb ice and simultaneously ran out of fuel causing an EFATO and an unsuccessful turn-back while throwing out all its through-bolts. Unfortunately the aero club was having a working bee and the guy on the tractor and slasher didn't notice the Jab in the long grass until he heard the metal thrashing about behind him.

You want him to sell the makeup to us males then?

I think this may have just been a convenient title, might need an update since it doesn't refer to the male pilot's wives or partners, and I can think of one or two where it might be better to offer it without any gender advice.