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If you're at all serious you run it 24/7 under load, with heat cycles where a load is put on and temperature monitored and the cooling system adjusted until the temperature stabilises at an acceptable power on temperature. Then you start to do some fine tuning.

...electronically castrated him, but in a further act of unrepentance, the Locker posted a selfie on Facebook. Turbo wondered why anyone would do this; he'd been told in his younger days that it sent you blind, and that these people were filling orphanages to overflowing because it drained your brain also, and Turbo had..........

Turbo most respectfully finds it necessary to correct Ratface - Madge is only a little %$#@

"....warned about his language weekly, has been banned seven times this year, and is on a warning right now for saying that Madge is a %$#@, and not only that, but......"

And Turbo wasn't refering to Maj Millard either I believe...

..terminator, ex clicket player, ex.......

Turbo wishes to advise that his Christmas message has been cruelly squashed this year. He had found the Free Talking Santa App, where you say something, and Santa booms it back to you in his deep voice. So he cleverly used a combination of electronics and social media by recording greetings to all NES readers, and his opinions on Ratso Loxo, Eno, Bryno Dandido -bullo-, Tomo, Acko and so on, recording it with his iphone and posting it on Youtube so he could link it on Refo.

What he hadn't counted on was receiving an urgent message from the President of Google saying he had been banned from Google Earth, Youtube and any other social site he could think of. "Your comments were the foulest, we have ever read" he said "how can someone be a $@#$#@#$, #$^%$#W, &^&%$#@@$?" he continued "it's physically impossible!", so we have confiscated your Youtube segment and may, I say may return it after our Christmas Eve party

Getting better and better - now for a lot more learning.

Marty you've touched on some marketing reality. That's the way many people think and that's the challenge of any new product. Historically there have been some great cars which didn't catch on quickly and were scrapped on financial grounds. It takes a long time to get acceptance from the market place, and one of the best ways to kill a new product stone dead is to make outlandish claims before reasonable in-service performance is established beyond all doubt.

I was primed up by a major truck engine manufacturer once with test information on fuel economy three years before release, and kept my major fleet customers, some of Australia's biggest truck operators, informed month by month.

It was a 10 litre engine, but kept the 14 litre crankpin, con rod and piston size, so it would be unburstable - ideal conditions for Australia. It was a quarter of a tonne lighter than the 14 litre (which should have been a warning to me), and it attained a spectacular return of 10 mpg Los Angeles to New York with a tandem axle semi trailer fully loaded.

I had pre-orders waiting, and when it was released quickly sold 30 trucks with this great engine.

Almost immediately engine problems surfaced, fuel returns were about 6.5 mpg, and the fleets were demanding action on a particular problem.

On their behalf (and to have any chance of future business) I organised a meeting with the engine manufacturer, and can still remember the scene as I entered the car park and parked among PALLETS of replaced pistons stacked about a metre high.

As I entered the board room expecting to just be talking to my normal contact, five other people entered, were introduced, the screen lit up and a senior executive started to give me a power point on "where we are with the 105 issues found to date"

To their credit they worked with every one of my fleets, replacing components, in some cases complete engines and getting the fuel returns up to reasonable levels, but it was too late for the engine, it was gone within five years.

A lot of others took off too. I had a quick look a few months ago and it looked as if a more coastal route, which some took, could have been below cloud level. The inevitable result may have started in the preflight planning.

So it's come from a North Queensland instructor? Any bells ringing?

This one will be investigated by ATSB and the implications you're referring to will go up the CASA chain, which already has shown it can be extremely tough on operations which treat safety regulations as a challenge.

It's also a salutory lesson for any RA operation which might think of playing the double meanings game - there are millions of dollars at risk when things go wrong, as they sometimes do when you least expect it.

"ridiculous set of Chinese epaulettes.....wait a minute, your're not Colonel Loxley, you're..............."

Starting to do testing is a loong way from trouble free production; I've done a few hundred of those cycles and there have been surprises on every one.

....insisted on leading the burial party at Juliasville, some 5 days ride away.

On arrival with the body at Juliasville Colonel Locky as interviewed by a local reporter.

"I don't wish to be maudlin" said the reporter, F.T. Gusher, "but didn't he er, er stink?"

"Well old chep" said the Colonel, he got a bit ripe by the third day, so we gutted him and it was fine after thet"

"What about....."

"....Poxosis Virtuois in the British Empire after the invasion of....." DON'T SAY IT!" yelled...

Go on... Everyone said "IF it is not Boeing, I'm not going" when it meant something.. The 276 version is long and the worst effect is up the front, like a springboard. but they are strong. Nev

I saw a film on the development of the 727, and the wings were tested by bolting the fuselage to the floor, and slowly applying massive lift to the wingtip.

Nothing happened up to a 45 degree wing angle with the fuselage level.

Still nothing happened until the wing got up to what seemed about 85 degrees and then there was a massive BANG! and the wing broke away at the root, and dust flying birds filled the factory.

Would have made you very confident at the start of work each day.

Nice to fly in too. At that stage I was doing a couple of trips per week. They just seemed to have a nice combination of performance and smooth ride without the parcel racks opening up or shaking as the fuselage stretched.

OK then What's Varga? Nev

Personally I thought the T Jets were too rough to keep balance; the DC9's were much smoother and most of the Captains had moustaches (Not That I Was Interested)

That's the beauty of this site; no matter what skills you lack, someone can always help with some advice on how to find a solution

And most importantly let's not forget the innocent tourist who thought this would be an uneventful joyflight.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/pilot-tourist-die-in-gyrocopter-ride-20131222-2zskc.html

Take a look at the bush right up to the airstrip. Looks like a zero engine failure strip to me, where no matter how careful you are, if you have an engine failure you have to hit big trees hard.

Well it's not the whistle that pulls the train, so it's going to be interesting to watch actual production engines in operation.

Sorry about your loss Windshear. We try to analyse things to prevent the same thing happening again, and so far these discussions have never been high profile, probably because they tend to be about the facts as best we can get them.

....till. People had often wondered how he could afford a Loxenvagen and an exotic eastern European sports aircraft which he parked ostentatiously every day outside the Wagga Wagga International Terminal. The aircraft had a garish slogan on it "We unlock the real you", but he never got much business because people thought it was for a Psychiatrist, and as son as they caught sight of Loxy they usually said "Sorry. I........."

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/police-search-for-two-men-after-gyrocopter-ride-in-kinglake-20131222-2zskc.html

Very thick bush with very tall trees in this location.

Well guess what Oscar, I'll back Major's practical skills against exhaust gas any time.