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You got in ahead of me about the Jab brakes Slarti (only because you are doing other things with your hands of course), but that was often a way to save time on the long taxy from parking area to line up at Moorabbin, and not too hard on the brakes if you slowed first.

....and everyone held their breath and waited to see what sort of a spray Foxhunter was going to give Deccadence......

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Quention, you'll have to stop writing in Tasmanian - we use English in Australia.

Yes, it's appalling airmanship. At Tooradin, we use the concrete around the terminal area, with the tail pointed out of the way and another concrete pad on a section of a taxyway - it's not that much of an effort really.

If the whole aerodrome is covered in gravel a working bee and a concrete slab would solve the problem surely - cheaper than props I would think.

"No", said Tomo who knew how to keep out of trouble "It was you, Deccadence who called the Ratmobile a wheelbarrow. I fly one, and Drifters are S:censored:".

"Calling Mr Rat Sir is not going to do it for you" he said

Turbo was also concerned that Deccadence had let the cat out of the bag about what in fact were spud guns designed to fire multiple Thorpdale potatoes (which were too hard to eat) in much the same way as a shotgun works.

Turbo had been waiting for some luckless student to come out into the Moorabbin training area then BOOM!

So the Rat had caught Locksie in the scheme to put another one on him........

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Hmmmm 100 feet, 60 degree turn, three cylinders.....

Sorry for this sub-thread

Shags you had a bad one. I could spot land every time, usually the passenger couldn't feel the touch down. Then progressed from that to the Jab where we had to go looking under the seats for the instructor's teeth after every landing, and that's when we actually landed on the strip.

Shags, I only found the part about Cherokee wheel shimmy - never experienced it and only experienced one bad 140 (lack of maintenance). What was wrong?

QWERTY, thanks for getting the facts. What we don't know is at what height he "lost the cylinder" and what that meant.

If he did lose just one cylinder, and still had power to make a small circuit that might be a different scenario. It might look unusual or spectacular from the ground of course.

.......aeronautical activity?, story flow?, it was all getting too much for Turbo who was mortified some years ago to find Microsoft Spell Checker rejecting "Bangholme", and suggesting the alternatve "Bung Hole".

Just when he need the Rat, Deccadence, like some alien had grown teeth and was knocking holes in the tops of silos with Locksie.

And ditDot was away, having set out on an epic Navigation Exercise and was lucky enough (for a Queenlander) to realise he'd reached the Coast, for which his instructor gave him a little gold star. He took a photo of it, to use next time he was over this way and needed a geographic reference.

He sure doesn't talk about Drifters these days after getting a taste of the powerful Jab.

But Turbo needed him here now. He hoped they weren't missile silos........

Hightimes, why not go up with an RA instructor for an hour?

Easy decision to make, then you can react to the challenge or otherwise.

......a 44000 volt shock went through Locksie's rump, and he sprang out of bed.

"Where's Bongville?" he cried, trying to work out if he'd been out on the town last night, or Wagga had been taken over by Decathlons.

Deccadence turned a dial.....

Winsor is taking this very seriously Orion.

Let's see if we can start with some hard evidence that the event ever took place.

Or let's look at the possibility of doing what may be up to 270 degrees of turn in a Cherokee 160 with zero power, clearing reasonably high objects (A320 fin???) towards the flare.

Deccadent flicked a switch.................

Maybe we have, or maybe the thread was a chain pulling exercise.

Ah, Orion, there's the rub - the "green" policies are there to disguise the real one such as same sex marriages and free injecting rooms....

"The aircraft narrowly missed Bill abd Bob who were just returning from their honeymoon to the Reef.

"Not so lucky was a junkie who'd just decided to have an "extra" after spending all morning at the airport lounge which has recently been converted into a free injecting room, available to all passengers...."

He certainly does. Turbo certainly has been sworn to secrecy on that grounds that certain scenes may be just too much for Il Ratta..

Turbo had slipped back into Wagga Wagga, avoided being slung into the wagon, and was busy distributing goats head thorns around Rat's Jab, parked outside the hangar for an early getaway.......

Goats Head Thorns

Here up in North Queensland we suffer punctures from goats head thorns - these are small little thorns that work their way through 6 ply!

.....beware the belt in the bellcrank trick.....

....Note: for occasional readers, Snake Gully was named after Deccadent.....

Ah, Political incorrectness at last - Anyone comment on what Bob Brown would have done?

Da da dat dit dat dit dat dit do, dit dot dit dot dat dat dit....... using the tune for Blaaa blaa black sheep. quite amusing really!:kumbaya:

.......ditDot was obviously back from his TAFE studies where he had just learned a hypotenuse was not always found in Africa.

But what did he think of Dickapicka's daring slash at Ratso?

....ten lashes of the Rat's Tail.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! Dickapicka - told you you were for it!......no one gets away with criticising the Rat's Nest....

Thanks Tim. I'll be taking a very close look next time I fly.

Wheelbarrow..........The Rat with the golden tooth was not going to be happy with that when he sobered up in the morning.

Ahlow the Harlow started to giggle, which he hadn't done since the I hate Jabs thread fizzled out because people just didn't hate them.

Poor old Rat was in the Hangar (yes that's HangAr guys, not what you hang a Drifter on) polishing the "wheelbarrow" every day and the birds were depositing every night.

Deccadence was for it.....

Deccadence is as Deccadence does - playing repeat the post, and we could tie him up in knots by getting him to give an aeronutical explanation of what ditDOT meant (although pretty much everyone including Deccadent's new female friends knows what ditDot really meant).

However, as we know, he once lazed at a desk with a cup of coffee or hostie on it and flicked a switch every now and again, with a few interspersed "Operations Normal Skipper", although he dodn'y know what abnormal was.......

unless you fit a radio and join the mute club....