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  1. 440032
    Perhaps clarify for the readers, you're only talking about a different tyre, nothing else?
  2. 440032
    https://downunderpilotshop.com.au/products/pj068-microphone-plug $50 finder fee. Slip it under my hangar door....
  3. 440032
    Nobody has asked "what torque is required and what did you actually take it to?" ???
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    It must be true, I saw it on the internet! What do they do for fuel at Wellcamp (Toowoomba west)? I must say though, I have asked around a little, how does jet fuel get to say Melbourne Tullamarine, is there a pipeline from Yarraville or somewhere? Or do they truck it to just over the road from the airport? I travel past there a lot, I've never seen a steady stream of fuel trucks coming and going. Let's say there is a pipeline, and there probably is, WHERE is it, what underground route does it take, how did it get there - is it three feet under roads (unlikely!), what if it gets damaged by some muppet and his backhoe. With all the freeways and tunnels built and being built, a pipeline would have to be seven thousand feet underground to have not been chopped up yet. If it was put in when the airport was built, it's 50 years old now. Unless it was made of Wakandan Vibranium, it would need replacing at some point. It's never sprung a leak? I've always wondered about this. Yep, too much time on my hands.
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    And the result was, beautiful blue sky there Friday, and almost the same Saturday, with some wind. Matt Hall and Emma McDonald did a great display Saturday afternoon, Emma leading in the EXTRA and Matt in the MX following.
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    Driving up in the Mopar Thurs from VIC, probably in the rain all the way. Local report earlier today said blue sky there today but the wind was a little cool. My weather watchings in the last week - it's certainly improved from what was forecast. Hopefully it'll be OK. Bring jackets and spare shoes just in case.
  7. 440032
    Right out of the Betoota Advocate, almost.
  8. 440032
    And don't forget to read the lower ticker tape for more news flashes....
  9. 440032
    and in just a short 7 or 8 hours the plane will be charged and ready to return!
  10. 440032
    Them too - they's gots to gets up there somehow!
  11. 440032
    Was the coffee van at a place that is really hot? (So hot, it's Me...................)
  12. 440032
    Quite some years ago now, a young English couple came to Melbourne to work where I did - they arrived a couple of days before we had a run of 47 degrees for three days straight. Welcome to A-Straye-Ya.
  13. 440032
    I'm more excited by their Tiangong space station, where a glass of water happily sits on a table beside all the "taikonauts". (did everyone see that one?)
  14. 440032
    A 25 registered is an aircraft conforming to the now long defunct ANO 95.25 from 1985 era. (later, CAO 95.25) A 25 aircraft is not an LSA. - that's a whole different animal.
  15. 440032
    Interesting that NZ ultralights are all properly country (ZK) registered. I went through Whanganui twice on the 20th June - by road, slurping my $3.15 a litre petrol.
  16. 440032
    Kyneton does not charge landing fees Butch, and will have an RAAus Tecnam for training running very soon!
  17. 440032
    Make sure you only use CASA approved dirt, and seek your approval 60 days in advance of a fire.
  18. 440032
    My aero club 172 started a small patch of grass below the exhaust light up a few years back. Luckily someone saw it and ran over to stomp it out. 183 times quicker than trying to find an estingsquisher. If there was one in the plane I don't know - pilot did not see or know anything at the time.
  19. 440032
    Here's a question or seven. How many of us have had the actual need to use a fire extinguisher stored in an aircraft? (or even a car?) Would it be more likely useful to assist someone else while you are on the ground, or for yourself in flight or on the ground. How many of us have ever had to use a fire extinguisher anywhere in real life - or seen one used? Very few me thinks.
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    Wow. You were involved in the budget for the Jabiru engine design?
  21. 440032
    Had a conversation with a fella in Tassie this afternoon. He has a LYC O-320B2C engine for sale, professionally overhauled and then pickled in Adelaide in 2004, it's still in the box. Was out of an R44 helicopter, but I see with some research some do use this B2C in aeroplanes. It has the conical engine mount, not the common dynafocal. It does have the oil sump for horizontal installation in aeroplanes. LYC manual shows B2C takes a fixed pitch prop. (seems it was destined for R22 though, or perhaps just not used in any other type certified aircraft) Would ideally suit an experimental aircraft. He was going to put it in a Baby Belle, that project did not proceed. The price seems real good to me. I'd buy it myself but my project is already set up for dynafocal mount and I have an engine. I have his phone number and email, but I won't post those here. PM me for that. First to ask "how much?" here will face the firing squad. I'm just trying to help the fella a little, you can talk turkey with him.
  22. 440032
    Take a look at AWB 26-002 Issue 3 – 11 January 2018 Selection and Installation of Handheld Portable Fire Extinguishers
  23. 440032
    OH..... Slant six = 475 lb. LYC O-320 about 268. There goes that theory right down the gurgler.
  24. 440032
    Yep! Mopar magic though. It'll never happen, nice to wonder though.
  25. 440032
    Thanks - I found it, I'll take a look there. Chrysler motor would be my poison, slant or hemi. I have a mate who has a race built Charger, routinely takes it to about 7000+ rpm.
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