Captain

"......real artists!"

"Gather lound" Aki said "just a few more hours to go. Now remember, we wait until dlum fire going and stories getting bigger and bigger, especially Lat's stories because they are full of BS and everyone likes them"

 

"Then we cleep towards aircraft being VERY quiet. If you stub toe on rock, don't start sucking air through your teeth rike Japanese woos!"

 

The escape plan was set.....

"What are you talking about the Lat and BS (Bean Soup)? That is my lecipe" yelled The Nob is an indignant and threatening fashion that was steeped in tradition.

"You aporogize for knocking off my lecipe or I ain't gunna excape with yez" he added.

"Yes ... stay here with me, Nob" said Nanna "And I can assure you that Nobu won't need to suck air thru his teeth .... as he has ears like snorkels (when he needs to(like last night)).

"But the excape plan is to .........................

Wait a mirrit. Rast time we got battered savs you stuck one in your ear Nob. Why you do that?"Well" said Nob, "I rang Jabiroo to prace my order, but they say because of war (they mentioned it) there a sav ear shortage. So I do my bit to help".

 

"You pirrock Nob, they meant.....

"WOW" commented a Dutch bloke loudly from up the back of the group.

"I thought zey said "sever ear shortage"" commented van Gough "And now I've lopped mine off for nothing, but I'd have to say that after I did it, it looked a bit like a battered sav that has been dipped in sauce at the Easter Show. I may as well have shot myself."

"Me too" Chopper piped up "I did both of mine".

"And you reckon that I'm a pirrock?" commented Nob "I'm just a sadine compared to these blokes, and they are ...........

"......key cut our way back to Tokyo"

"They sirry buggers" said Taka, who had picked up the essentials of the local language "they not taking any notice of thleat"

 

"Nob, nick into town and get some sump oil. We'll bracken our faces with it on Saturday night. That way the Jab pirots won't smell us", said Taka....

"How much do you reckon we will need?" Nob asked Tacky.

"Based on what the Jab pirots reckon, we'll need about 80 ml/hour ... so it won't have time to get brack .......... and get some massage oil for Nanna while you are there" lesponded Tack.

"No worries, cobber, me-old-maate" answered Nob, who was becoming a real Skippy "And I'll grab a couple of battered Savs and some Fairy Floss for 11'sies" he added.

Tacky thought for a while and answered "I love a good battered Sav and .............

HiHo

I overnighted in Cessnock and then flew back to Wagga late last week. Bugger eh.

Sorry to hear of your problem.

Will advise further via a PM if I need to come back up next week.

Regards Geoff

Gordo,

I had my broker (OAMPS) nominate my J230 kit as part of the contents in my locked shed and there were no hassles and no price rise.

The value is such that it needs specific nomination and they then smoothly converted it over to cover transport to, and final assembly at, the airport, then test flying and an ongoing flying policy when I was ready.

Hope this helps.

Regards Geoff

The weather looks good

The weather for Friday & Saturday looks pretty good based on today's projections.

Is anyone else thinking of coming to Cowra, as I need to give the SAAA an indication of numbers, if possible.

Regards Geoff

".....excessive rear COG....."

"Is he saying that my bum looks big in this SportsSzar?" asked AhLo.

"No mate" said his loyal friend from Wagga "We all know that you carry your key cutting machine around down back to help out stranded aviators and motorists."

"Geeeez" said Nobu "We could have used that back in '43. If AhLo had been around then it would have been The Cowla Sneak-Out and we could have ................

..."45 all over again".

Turbo was seriously concerned that the people going to Cowra were not taking the threat to their aircraft seriously.

 

Not all Japanese escapees from the Cowra breakout were recaptured. Four of five of them were never recaptured, and no one knows where they went or what happened to them.

 

It couldn't be publicised, for propaganda reasons - you can imagine the fears of nearby property owners expecting to have their throats cut at any time.

 

Traces of a garden were found, but nothing of Japanese origin, and there were rumours that some people of lower morals than most had been buying cheap vegetables, but investigations all came to nothing.

 

So Turbo had been active, travelling to Cowra as a carpet cleaning contractor and nosing around.

 

Eventually he had come across a well organised camp in the bush, well camouflaged and with quite an extensive garden under the canopy of trees.

 

No one was there, but there were tracks in the direction of Cowra. He followed the trail to the southern side of the airport where a makeshift hide was found indicating the group was watching and waiting.

 

Seeking to protect the people coming to the fly in he reported all this to the Federal police and was mortified when they just roared laughing at the thought of hidden Japanese pilots stealing aircraft from somewhere like Cowra.

 

But the men haven't been found, so guys lock up your aircraft just to be sure.

 

[Not you Ahlocks, you'll never get home if you do]

Then it came to pass that the camp by the airport was organised by that well respected organization "The Long Way from the Coast Watch" and the whole thing was administered by the Cowra Tourist Association, who are always looking for an angle.

"We'll call it the Cowra Break-In" said the Madam President of the CTA "As that will be a clever play on words and we can save a quid by just redoing the signs with an "IN" stuck over the "OUT", and we can dine out on this for another 50 years" she added.

"But what about the human toll in all this, as we will just be pawns in this promotional game, poor Ahlow will be locked out of his fine machine and the SAAA will think we are a bunch of dickheads."

"I have my passenger and radio endorsements" replied Nobu, who had saved his pennies after the breakout and had been off training in Forbes "And I have an RV7 kit on order (tailwheel, not one of those pussy RV7A's)."

"But" continued the Turbobunghole "What about Steve Ahlow and the adverse effects of his ...............

"How are things going Acki" asked Captain.

"Pretty good, mate" he replied.

"Thank goodness you are here, El Ratto," answered Nobu "As everyone else who used to contribute to the NES has given us the flick ...... a bit like they did back in '45."

"Don't worry, fellas." responded Ratto "As they are all fine Aussie chaps who are probably just busy with work, families or flying (but perhaps in the reverse order) and they might eventually scribe a line or two when they get a bit bored over the next week or three."

"But how would you feel if you had been encarserated for all that time, then encouraged to contribute and be a character in the NES ..... stuck here in some bloody time warp with a bunch of bokes and blokettes who are a bit warped ..... and then dumped like last weeks stale sushi (and suss plawns at that)?" answered Nob with a hint of rhetorical aggression.

"Yeah, too right" said Acki "It's like .....................

"Look carefully before you choose airclaft" said Aki "looks like Lotorly doesn't have enough power to keep itself up! You more rikely to finish up in Tolles Stlait as shark bait."

"Listen Aki. You're starting to lose it, maate" yelled Nobu "I told ya a few posts ago that I am going the other way. Why don't you risten?"

"Forget about that" responded Aki "It is now less than a week until they lob here in good old Cowla and I heard the rat overfry the field last Fliday on his way back from Cessnock. But I wonder who else will be cum'n?" he pondered "Will the Turbobunghole be here, will AhLo make the trip on Fliday when The Lat comes in? And what about ..........?"

Keep your legs crossed, boys and girls.

With a little luck, we might have a high camped over Cowra for this event next weekend.

JG

I have always suspected that some bugger must be getting tail winds all the way when they travel ........ to make up for the headwinds that I always get each way.

And now I know who is the benificiary of my extra fuel and slower trips.

Nice report.

Regards Geoff

...Stronger... holding both sides together!

"Fair suck of the wasabi bottle there ToMo the HoMo (sapian)" said NoBu. "The SportStar is held together by rivets and you can't get no stronger than that. Now I know that you country folk use baling string for all sorts of personal stuff between consenting adults, but it is rivets what hold the Sydney harbour bridge up and you'd look a bit of a mug if you stretched string from side to side on that. Well the SportStar is ..............

"... puts the plomb on top of the instrument panel because he has no Artificial Holizon"

However he further stated "Just taking it from the McTop of the panel to the bottom under McGravity wasn't artificial enough for me, and it was vertical, which would have been an Atificial Verticon, so I tied it from the left side of the panel to the right, which was much McMore artificial, a lot more artsi-phartsi, heaps more horizon-like, and it made my McSportsStar more .....................

"...doing his 100 hourly rivet check" said the local ASIC card inspector.

"I've had to let him in five days in a row. I let him get to 33,356 each time, then go over and ask him if he'd like a cup of coffee.

 

"Of course he's so desperate that he falls for it every time.

 

"Us ASIC inspectors are like that you know"

I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous" said Acki "And I'd give my left castleated to own one of those Sportstars. They are a peach of a machine and AhRo fries his with aplomb. He ................."

...the Biggles Brigade.

Meanwhile things had gone very quiet on the Cowra front.

 

The escapees sat around a makeshift fire in the bush eating Kentucky fried.

 

"This makes difference from old days when we ate clow" said Aki "Maybe we should have added herbs and spices"

 

"What we gonna do now we know Factotem coming?" asked Taka "He smarter, going to be difficult getting all aircraft away"

 

"Captain said refuerrer come to each aircraft" said Tosumo "Why don't we put word out to leave keys in aircraft for refuerrer"

 

"Good idea" said Nobushi

"Here are my keys now" said Nanna "And what is the Fat-totem's name? Is he the refueller with the big black hose, that I new for a few months down in Chewka?"

"And where the heck is AhRo?" asked Nobu, adding to frow of unanswered questions.

"He must have the dirts with the NES, or he is so busy with his Rocks that he doesn't have time for us ......... or maybe he might be learning the bagpipes to use with the Bangholme Singing Teacher?"

"No, he's ................

"....we'll find out a way to make the gearbox hang together...."

........ but I know how much we are attacked on this Forum if we criticise Rotarian Axes, so I am checking the backlash and adjusting the clutch torque in readiness for ......

"....With a great black spot now starting to appear on the right eye, having been sent flying through the air at super sonic speeds by Auntie Mad when she swung her huge masculine left fist through the air, which in turn came to an abrupt ending as it came into contact with J D Structa's eye... causing the said blackness"

Well, thought J D? "That's one way to fly without giving away anything hard earned", 'although It probably hurts just as much!

 

Now thanks goodness that the local sparky had one of those specially designed cherrry picker thingo's..............

....... which is rated at 4.5 te, "As dear old Aunt Mad is a fair lump of a woman whose equilibrium (aviation term) has been upset by the trip through the sound barrier"

So as she was lowered to terra firma (aviation term) they noticed a little bloke in a rug standing by the cherry tree, concealing something behind his back.

"Are you an ASIC Inspector?" someone asked.

"And does anyone know when (and where) my Cherry went?" ask Aunt M (remembering the past ..... wayyyyy back).

"Asic Inspector?" he said while spitting on the ground in disdain. "I am George Washingup" he said disclosing his Axe (and a turbocharged 914 model it was too, so George must have had a quid) "And just wait till our god-damn Wright boyz get going in this aviation lark and we'll see what country is the father of aviation (aviation term) .... with this 115 hp up their clackers we'll take the world by storm (yucky aviation term), then ..............

"......Gandhi in his confusion had pressed the Transmit button as he spoke....

..... just like occurs in most other circuits that train visiting stewedants".

"Be careful with your button pressing there, sport" said BL "As we Indians (feather, not dot) have a long tradition in this aviation caper."

"No, no, no" responded the Structa, the subcontinent was the birthplace of aviation.

"Listen mate" responded Broken "Who do you think it was that invented the arrow, and more impoortantly which people was it that reconciled the forces at work with arrow-ship, who developed the formula for the modulus of elasticity for the shaft of an arrow, who worked out the critical frequency of a bow string? Well it was my ancestor Running Stream Cessna, and as a result their factory in Kansas is on our land."

"That's nothing" responded J D Structa "We invented supersonic flight when my uncle got a crook bit of chicken and ..........

"...tea" he said, then more uncertainly "Is this Bankstown I am at Sir?"

"How should I know, keemoosabi? You are the Instructor. And if you don't teach me good, me scalp ya" replied Broken Lance in his Piper Lance.

"I think it is Warnervale ...... not Bankstown, although they do look similar, and please do not be throwing of your weight around with me." replied the Structor "As we are sure to be the world's new super-power, we stuck it up the poms when we got rid of the Raj, and my sister works in the Telstra call centre in Delhi, so we can play merry hell with your account."

"Remember the Little Big Horn, maate" replied Broken Lance "And ...............

"Do you want me to open the lock? asked the Smirking Alternator, or (giving the alternative) "are you just pleased to see me El Rattster?"....

"I am definitely just wanting you to be opening the lock" he responded with an Indian accent.

"I'll have chicken Tikka & an Indian copy of my SportSzar (it's called a SportMaharajah)" responded Mr. Ahlow "And a spot of ...........

"Click, Click, Click Click" went the key in the lock, but nothing happened and the Rat cursed as he realised he was going to have to make yet another Sportstar callout and wait for the smirking alternator.

"It's me" said the Smirking Alternator, who alternates between AC & DC, men's and women's clothing, RAA & GA, this Forum and prune, Czechoslovakia & Bosnia, Austria and Bundaberg, the red truck and the white van, ............................

See the new link on the SAAA website for their non-members at:

http://www.saaa.com/EToC/Cowra_nonmember_info.pdf

And the updated Event Schedule for the weekend at:

Escape to Cowra - An SAAA Event!

Note the Brumby factory tour at 2 pm on the Saturday.

The 1st link mentions a cost of $15 for the weekend for non-members and that will allow you to attend all of their events except those couple of technical training courses where a separate fee applies.

I spoke with the SAAA's Brian Hunter last night and they are looking forward to hosting those of us that come along.

If you look at what is on and the fact that Forum members can meet together as well, this is well worth the trip, I reckon.

Please advise here if you intend to be there so that I can give the SAAA an indication of numbers for catering.

If you will be flying in, please note again that there will be aerobatic displays over the field at times during the Friday and Saturday, so listen for radio advice and be prepared to hold away from the strip for a short time, if necessary.

AvGas will be available from a mobile tanker that will come to your parking position. For MoGas, see the organisers on arrival as separate arrangements will be needed.

Regards Geoff

I attempted to fly in on saturday, got as far as the Henty Highway, nearly turned off to wagga, but opted to turn back to tocumwal instead. Approaching Tocumwal I noticed several storm cells and a few lightning strikes :yuk:.

 

Lucky for me I made the correct decision at the time.

 

Came home to LTV on Sunday, and got in just before the change. Had a 25kt tailwind in from Lilydale, and a not too pleasant landing here at LTV.

 

Maybe I will have better luck next time

 

Kev

"how much money do we need .......?

"Do you have a boat?" responded Ahlocholovic "Because you'll need a ship-load of cash if you want me to fix that key that is giving trouble. Just ask the Skipper, who made the mistake of getting me to do some work for him (and which has now underwritten my SportStar flying for the next 6 months). What have you got against griders, anyway?" he aksed.

Burp'n thought for a minute, considered Ah Lo's reference to Slarti's tan pussy (searched eveywhere for an emoticon for one of those), and said "......