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SDQDI says: "Also would be nice to have a pic."

If you check out the link to Google Loon above, there are a series of photos and videos.

It looks like you have to open the media, not just look at the New Media page, to remove the red number tag.

Maybe I'm as bad as Planey, but I got this screen print tonight.

Data panel shows altitude 715 ft, ascending at 512 fpm. Seems dangerous in a busy traffic area, doesn't it?

Peter.

Seems like many people on this forum suffer from Witzelsucht (look it up).

Bad luck the wx was so shyte, Matty. Bad enough for driving, let alone flying!

In Vic, you can pay the rego fee over the internet by EFT. No checks, no forms unless there is a change, and no new rego sticker issued. Police cars are equipped to high speed cameras which can check regos as they pass you on the road, whether you are driving or parked.

Think 'rigid'.

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http://www.techly.com.au/2014/04/30/plane-space-500-days-one-knows/?utm_source=outbrn&utm_medium=images&utm_campaign=outbrain_amplify

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Next one:

Compare the wingspan with the size of the truck!

What he said was that there had been nothing done in 30 years to change the RAAF attitude towards granting clearance through the Williamstown restricted zone which caused the plane to divert from the coastal track inland over Barrington Tops, the Devils Triangle, and the same thing could happen again.

Edit: Beaten to it.

The plane is the Bonney Gull.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/bonney_gull.php

Video of the fatal test flight:

Clue: The designer/builder was killed in a test flight.

Not too many red Staggerwing's around Perth. This one flew over for the RAAF 100th at Point Cook in March. I guess this is the one.

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Surely someone knows this one:

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You're right, Marty. Here's the story of this aircraft:

http://simanaitissays.com/2014/02/04/abrams-p-1-explorer/

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Another hint re post 515:

American, aerial photography.

Now there's a blast from the past - old 60's TV shows. I lived in Deniliquin in the late 50's and 1960, and you needed a mast as high as the TV transmitter to receive TV. Needless to say, we didn't see much TV. I came to Melbourne with my Dad to visit family, and I can remember stopping at a roadhouse where Whirlybirds was on TV. Sparked my interest in helicopters. Much later when we lived in Melbourne, I used to travel from the Yarra heliport to Essendon on the Ansett airport shuttle, just to ride in a helicopter. Came to know pilot Darcy Newell.

Hint: Purpose built to provide a stable platform.

No, Nev. Fixed wing.

Something a little harder:

I must surely be cursed, or have broken lots of mirrors. Had planned to go, and told the missus I was having that day. In the mail today, I received an invite to a 94th birthday party for my aunt (my late mother's sister) at 2 pm on that day, at Drouin. Not an invitation I could turn down for a fly-in! Damn.

Full marks. Marty. Far out design for a cropduster.

Not too difficult, eh?