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You better believe it Howard, you should see them all standing around in shock when someone turns up with the wrong uniform, or the wrong markings.

Might be a good idea to have a look at the Professional Pilots Rumour Network where those guys hang out. Plenty of juicy stories there, like the one on this link (who was not the US Pilot you are looking for.

http://www.pprune.org/dg-p-general-aviation-questions/487144-barry-hempel-inquest-13.html

I nearly poisoned myself once after a day welding galvanised pipe. Couldn't get any air into my lungs in the middle of the night so these days I usually lightly grind the dirt, rust and gal in one operation, then sand, or out with the oxy and put in a new beam.

My Boomerang 60 Trainer

Wingspan is 1.9 metres, and it's powered by a 10.86 cc 65LA O.S. Glo plug two stroke, running on among other things, nitromethane.

I've got about 3 hours up so far

My club is one of the stricter ones, requiring instructor training up to "Bronze Wings" level before being turned free to fly it by myself

It's vary stable in flight, not twitchy at all. Compare the moment length between the wings and the horizontal stabilizer, and the area of the horizontal and vertical stabilizers and the rudder with the Jab and that will answer a few questions.

It's not like the old days when we didn't have these bastards (the terrorists.......I know feelings are high about the "defenders"), when Burt Munro was running his old Indian at Bonneville he heard about The USAF Bell X15 attempts to break the sound barrier, with Chuck Yeager the pilot and Bob Hoover as Chase.

He couldn't get in the front gate so he drove out into the desert and around the security fence (which must have cost a packet), until he found and unlocked gate and drive his $50.00 Chevy with the Indian Streamliner on a trailer on to the base.

He'd had quite a good look round before security caught up with him, and then talked them into giving him a cup of coffee and introducing him to a few of the pilots who were so interested in what he was doing with the Indian that he finished up using their wind tunnel the following year.

Now you tell us Vorticity it'll probably never go back together.

Yes, a couple of times like that, You had to trim it for glide accurately, and then it would climb with full power, and glide down and land safely.

Well, I certainly would not like to be embuggered.

I think the Spanish incident was the one where a cameraman was killed half a kilometre away.

I had a free flight model but wasn't smart enough to fit a small tank. Chased it for about 3 km one day.

I like the "smell it" comment earlier on.

How does so much water get into the fuel? After I got rid of it I'd be looking at that. A car I worked on had mostly water instead of oil in the crankcase-blown head gasket.

This is also why drums at remote strips often have water in them. There's a correct way to store a drum, on it's side with the bung location immersed, but day to day filling with a new plug of air is contributing to the water.

The old farmer's trick minimises this. After everyday's work, the tractor tank is filled, so there's no air left to drop its humidity.

You could always travel by bus of course.

Pretty much all the things you are complaining about were instigated directly as a result of a successful aircraft/passenger destruction, or an attempted one.

For those who think we in Australia are being penalised for attacks which happen overseas, how about this for some sobering thought.

A few years ago I was talking to a new Victorian Minister after a successful election, and I asked him what priorities his new Government was going to set.

The number one priority was terrorism.

He explained that the Government had already caught, tried and convicted 15 terrorists attempting to kill us in a scale for a few to tens of thousands, and those terrorists were now locked up in Port Phillip Prison, but the Government knew it hadn't got all the cells and would be stepping up security initiatives.

There would have been a similar result in other States too.

Farcoffs, any chance you could run us through this blow by blow?

Whether it was engine, cog, pilot reaction to controls, there's bound to be a lesson in it for us, particularly those building new aircraft.

Of course you had to ground the plane but were there no facilities to weld it there? One gliding club I was with had continual problems with cracked muffler on a Pawnee. Many mornings they had it pulled off and someone was welding it up. Talking about welding, I am restoring a boat trailer and have to do vertical welds and welding underneath which is the worst when "lava" dribbles down on you. Is gasless mig welding easier than the stick welding I am doing?

1/7 th scale F15 twin turbine 20kg of thrust each

Well in the old days Australians with the same interest used to help each other but these days they just play with their IPads, text on their Iphones, or Ibernate

Just a happy guy making the most of his freedoms?

The frightening thing Tomo is that there are thousands of him - brilliant skills, lightning fast reflexes.

One way to get some answers from the Rag and Tube brigade is to suggest you want to cut it up and sell off the parts to finance a Jab. That should get some action going.

Beautiful work Mick, love that Hurricane.

There's a full size flying version in the Wanaka Air Museum, and it's one of the few aircraft that has an aura about it when standing still - brilliant design.

Flying schools have a big advantage here, but there's nothing to stop owners checking each other's aircraft every now and again. A different pair of eyes will often find and issue you've been subconsciously ignoring.

How could you suggest that Wayne!

All of those people should by now have taken advice from a Public Liability lawyer Andy

You know horsefeathers, I always trusted Pud's words implicitly, but now I see how he cunningly twists things when you least expect it.