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Red, Kasper...setting aside the many versions of some aircraft (ie, counting a DC3 as one, a piper cub as one, and so on) do you have any idea just how many there are???

No idea. I've probably hardly scratched the surface.

Here's my next one.

 

 

 

Sorry, on 7's early video it looked like there was a fence beside the ditch. Closer video later showed no fence.

 

Amazes me how the media (channel 9) report it as a plane crash

Alf, a rear end shunt on the road is still referred to as a crash, even if both vehicles are still drivable.

 

 

Early this morning a Cessna veered off the runway and into a ditch and fence at Redcliffe Airport. The pilot was taken to hospital for treatment. Extent of injuries unknown.

 

 

While I was in the garden taking advantage of a cool sunny afternoon, trying to tame a barbed wire with flowers, aka bougainvillea bush, at least 7 Cessna's flew over my house, tracking YLIL - YMMB at 3 to 5 minute intervals, between about 4.00 pm to 4.45 pm. Looked to be all from CAE Oxford Flying Academy.

 

 

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Semi-standing seats

 

Look damned uncomfortable, particularly for seniors.

 

 

I know nothing about Cessnock, have never been there, and very little about airshows other than having attended a dozen or so over many years, including Avalon (5), Laverton (4), Pt Cook, Lilydale, Moorabbin. But looking at Cessnock Airport on Google satellite view, it appears to have the perfect setup with areas well separated, by the runway, to keep spectators away from moving aircraft, but still having a place for a static display, on the side of the airport closest to the main road into town. It appears to fit perfectly into the suggestion I made in post #47 in the thread A time now sadly gone. The image below illustrates what I mean. I could be way off beam, just my 2c worth.

 

 

 

Harking back to post #20,

 

But we could, and should, be doing all we can to attract the 50+ age group into aviation. I don't know how - marketing is not my thing. Maybe organize a flying day at our local clubs? Just a quick circuit or two, with a tiny bit of hands-on for the pax, no money involved?

This is the type of thing that should be done at events like AirVenture Aust and other shows. Aircraft on static display with close public inspection like below, with someone who can give authoritative advice supervising the aircraft, picking out likely suspects and inviting them to sit in the aircraft, answer their questions, suss out their interest, and offer them a quick circuit or TIF as Soleair suggests, in the near future when the activity of the airshow has passed. This is the sort of marketing that might lure future flyers.

 

 

 

Story and pictures

It's not grey, it's silver, and mine is silver with an airstrip down the middle.

 

 

So, what is the name of the pink lake?

Lake Hillier

 

 

As someone no longer involved, I may be out of place joining this discussion. But as I see it, you are trying to achieve two incompatible goals.

 

1. Do you want a get-together of aviators, to discuss the latest developments, swap stories, enjoy the camaraderie of like minded individuals,

 

or

 

2. Conduct an event to invite and encourage new blood into the pastime from the general public?

 

The nearest thing that comes to mind is Avalon Air Show, with trade days where the general public is excluded, then a couple of days to entertain and educate the public. I know this is difficult and expensive to organise and run, and I don't know if it's possible to do a cut-down version. Organisers could do like the Lilydale Air Show did and involve local groups like the Men's Shed to provide parking and crowd marshals, food stalls etc. (they run lots of sausage sizzles at places like Bunnings), with profits from these going to the group.

 

On the public day, have two separate areas, one for active aircraft, well away from any public access, and one for static display where the public can get close to the aircraft. Dealers, pilots, instructors etc to be on hand to answer questions and supervise inspections. Again, I understand that Lilydale had such arrangements (I couldn't get there, I was at the hospital emergency dept awaiting a chest x-ray.) Maybe such an arrangement would work, just a suggestion.

 

 

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Spot on, Birdseye. That's my lot for the time being, until I run across a few more.

 

 

No doubt about you kasper, you're good.

 

 

 

That's right Thruster88.

 

 

 

Yahoo report of a model on Instagram filming herself as her private jet crashes, killing her and 5 others.

 

It then goes on to say the Piper PA24 Comanche was overloaded.

 

 

It's an Aermacchi AL-60F-5 Trojan, originally designed by Al Mooney of Lockheed in the United States. After the company decided not to build the aircraft in the US, it was manufactured in small quantities in Mexico, and a few were assembled in Argentina. It was operated by, among others, the Rhodesia Airforce.

 

 

Having trouble finding it, kasper?

 

 

Al Jazeera is reporting that all 257 people aboard a Russian built transport plane of the Algerian military were killed when the plane crashed near a military airbase at Boufarik, near Algiers.The plane was an Ilyushin Il-76.

 

Photo here.

 

 

You got it!. Have you seen this one?