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I tried to upload on image in a thread, but got a problem advice instead. Nothing out of the ordinary with the image, so I tried attaching one previously loaded, and it had a problem as well. No details supplied. However Robbo had uploaded a similar screen print only a few minutes ago.

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Thanks for the comments David and Dex.

Fortunately, in the two locations I use, I can park the car facing the direction from which the aircraft are approaching. Then I stand beside the car, leaning against it, with feet spread like a golfer teeing off, and shoulders parallel to the runway. Then I can swivel at the hips almost 90 deg. each way. My camera has both a rear screen, almost useless in bright sunlight, and an eyelevel viewfinder. Switched to the viewfinder, and with elbows braced against my body, I aim the camera when the aircraft is still too far off, and commence following it as it gets closer. That way, it is centred when I press the shutter, and I can continue to swivel smoothly as it passes. The same technique applies when using rapid burst, where up to 50 frames can be snapped in a few seconds. The other secret is to set the zoom so that the full aircraft is in the frame when it is directly opposite you. Too high a zoom will result in cutting off part of the aircraft, because zooming and panning to match the speed of the aircraft is too difficult.

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I have just made my first attempt at putting together a video from some footage I shot at YMML. Nothing startling, just an exercise to try out Windows Live Movie Maker and a video converter which can upload to Youtube. The scenes were shot using the video function on my Lumix FZ35 camera. There is no music, Youtube are a bit iffy about copyright.

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Strangely, no media reports of this incident. Has anyone any idea what caused the flight to return.

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I was looking at FlightAware (YMML) about 11:40 pm when I noticed this interesting situation. A UAE A388 bound for Dubai orbiting north-west of Melbourne. It did so for quite a while.When I first started watching, ETD461, across the SA border when I took this screenshot, was abeam the UAE orbit. It left the orbit to return to YMML when the ETD flight was abeam Adelaide.

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At 00:30, the plane was orbiting Port Phillip Bay to dump fuel. It finally landed at about 1:10 am.

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And Rwy 34 only had an odd couple of flights. 27 was the main active. Oh well... 40 minutes, 2 photos.

My first visit to Bacchus Marsh today. I saw this very fast and small aircraft join the circuit and land. When it taxied up to the fuel pump, it looked like it was brand new, I was amazed when the owner told me he built it in 1988.

Vans RV-4 VH-PRV

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See you Tuesday, My rego PXL-415.

Hi Robbo,

I'm in the neighbourhood Monday and Tuesday this week.

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How's this for living nostalgia. I was at YMML yesterday afternoon, taking my son to catch a flight to OOL. Returning to his home unit where I am house-sitting, I saw a car identical to this on Keilor Park Drive.

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Just so long as members are enjoying the trip down memory lane, Geoff. As experienced elsewhere, it certainly looks popular.

Who had a leisure suit or safari suit. What about desert boots, or white or black Dunlop Volley tennis shoes.

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Homicide and Division 4 on tele.

Ford Consul and Zephyr. Chrysler Royal. 1960 Chevy Bel Air with tailfins that looked like Batmans cape.

Goggomobil Dart and Messerschmidt 3 wheeler.

the terror that used to spread through the place when someone spotted the government dental wagons

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You may recall this arranged crash of a 727 into a Mexico desert to research the conditions in a crash with a view to providing safer aircraft.

The full video and report were shown on Discovery Channel. I have a copy of the program except for the section before the first commercial break. However details of preparation, the crash, and video from onboard cameras is there. After removing the commercials, it runs 69 minutes. If you are interested, please PM me.

Hi All,

Things are a bit quiet on here, so I thought I would kick off a thread similar to one which has proven to be very popular on another site (non aviation), of which I am a member. It relates to things, recollections of your younger years. Here are some to start off with:

Hungry Jacks Yumbo

K-Tel record selector

Golden Fleece, Amoco, Atlantic and Kangaroo petrol

Milk in bottles with foil tops (favourite of magpies)

Threepences and sixpences in the Christmas pudding.

Cars - Vauxhall Velox and Wyvern, Morris Oxford, Humber Super Snipe, Austin Cambridge.

TV - Consider Your Verdict, Video Village, Mickey Mouse Club, Wagon Train, The Real McCoys

Happy Hammond and Princess Panda (Vic)

Buck Rogers or Hopalong Cassidy at the Saturday matinees.

Jane Fonda in the 1968 sci-fi flick 'Barbarella'

Dad and Dave, Blue Hills, Portia Faces Life, Jason and the Argonauts on the valve wireless

Kero bath heater, kero fridge. What about the ice delivery for ice chests.

Milk and bread delivered by horse drawn cart. I lived next door to the bread delivery driver in the late 50's, and we would ride on the cart with him during school holidays.

And pre-sewerage, what about the horse-drawn 'night cart', or "hum-dinger" sanitary cart (dunny cart with a bell on it).

That should get you started.

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Mentions of Canberra, Willy, Richmond or Holdsworthy all tangle with the military, and infrastructure is required all around, so what about Nowra?

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A rail link to Melbourne Airport fades into the distant future. A story from today's Age.

http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/regional-rail-built-on-airport-link-corridor-20130107-2ccvt.html

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Full details:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/01/07/15/01/pilot-lands-safely-after-plane-loses-wheel

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"I've come to drink your blood? "

That's too bad. My son is only away interstate about 1 week a year. Other than that I only get to YMML or YMEN once or twice a year.

Hey, Robbo. I will be house sitting in Avondale Heights from Mon 14th to Fri 18th Jan. As that's a lot closer than Vermont, I would be able to go up to YMML if you are working then.

New computers (and laptops) don't have dial-up ports and modems. Unfortunately I live in an area where broadband is difficult to receive, even though I live in suburban Melbourne. We have a pocket Wi-Fi, but the location of my computer desk is a real blackspot. I have been using dial-up, but my old computer packed it in, and I've had difficulty getting onto the internet. However, we found on e-Bay a USB dial-up modem for under $20, and it works fine, even though it is listed as a fax modem.

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So, if you have to use dial-up and have had to replace your computer, there is an answer, although the main computer stores can't help you.

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Hi Robbo,

Would love to, but I am in Vermont, and in this heat I'm not going anywhere. Was there on Wednesday because I was picking up an Android tablet from a place 2 km down South Centre Rd. The wife bought it over the internet for $30.

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There's no padlocked gate where you were ? there's an automatic gate

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