DenisPC9

Our RAAF has a world-wide reputation for excellent and innovative maintenance; our people can often get more out of an airframe than the original manufacturers expected.

That's because we're so bloody far from the source and the lead-in times for delivery are fairly long, that we, like the Kiwis have to engage in some lateral thinking. And god help you if you want to do something different and want to source the gear.

did they poach any coworkers?

As you yourself should know, English is the global language of aviation. So a German or French techo speaking English and checking out Oakey, or any of the Army Aviation Regiments would have more opportunity for work, than an Australian visiting European sites, not speaking French or German. ;-)

Amazing !!! its performance & specifications fit neatly into RAA . The machine gun might be frowned on, just a little.

I used the proceeds to purchase a 650 Triumph from Brian Collins MC in Parramatta. As soon as it was delivered, I wheeled it onto Newbridge Road in peak hour traffic and learned how to ride a two wheeler. I had never even ridden a bicycle.

Those were the days ;-)

My first foray on 2 wheels (motorised) was a mate's Beesa Bantam in our backyard in a small country town. 2 weeks later a 2nd hand Triumph Trophy came up for sale. I was 18 but there were a few fairy moments ;-)

For those going west, there is a corridor between Denman and Mudgee. I traversed it yesterday at 6000ft and it was fine, but the weather was good. You would need at least 4500ft to attempt it.

Plenty died before becoming adults too. . Nev

And I do the like ads "Kills 99.9% of germs". Which leaves a vacuum to be rapidly recolonised by other "germs", some virulent, some beneficial.

Was at Sydney airport yesterday, I looked at the trays rather differently and noticed how filthy they were. Now I’m paranoid.

Take it all with a more than a grain of salt. Just about everything outside your house, and if you have toddlers within your 4 walls its much the same, is equally as "contaminated". Us humans aren't built to operate in a sterile environment. If we were, we would all be on the Moon.

Have you ever tried to get a toilet bowl through a security scanner?

It's True! A toilet was used as an aerial bomb during the Vietnam War

The Mysterious Oxfordshire Sheep Panic of 1888

Oakshott, eh?

He sure as hell scared a lot of sheep in 2010 and the years following. There are still a lot them around now that shudder when his name comes up ;-)

The project comes under the US’s “Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Warfighter Analytics using Smartphones for Health (WASH) program”.

I The diagrams illustrate why.

I cant remember the name of the Outstation I was visiting but on the return leg, it was as if the C172 was a surfboard on a cresting wave. The bloody thing just took off and "slid" down the face of whatever carried it over what appeared to be an invisible hump. The pilot appeared to have no control over what was happening, until a way over and down the slide. He then gently pulled back on the stick and we resumed normal flight.

We had a visitor from down South, and we tried to arrange for them to go out on at least 1 charter. She nearly crapped herself when the plane "did its thing".

When we landed I asked the pilot what was that? From memory he said something about a "standing wave" and he regularly did that on that particular run. Then I thought he took it in fairly high when we headed out (to the Outstation).

me too !

Does conjure up some interesting scenarios.

Hello people, here is where it started. I trust you don't get this far off track when flying

Poteroo they carried D4Caterpillar bulldozers in them If you parked them sideways on a slope loaded, the doors jammed They operated overloaded on PK charts (developmental permitted overload). They also experimented with JATO bottles take off assist. (Time expired to save money). Used after we left PNG by IPEC mainly to Tasmania from Essendon. where icing was a problem. Nev

When it finally got itself settled, the back of the Herc opened up and out chugged this little bulldozer. As it had been quite a while since a Herc visited us, quite a crowd had gathered. And the looks on the faces of the locals was priceless. There was a sort of collective gasp as the D4 came down the ramp and lots of excited chatter and pointing of fingers.

And I reckon more than one of the fellows done up in all his bilas thought that would be a pretty good way to get the jump on his next village raid.

TAA had operated a fleet of Bristol Freighters into places like those from the early 60's . Obtained from Pakistan in near new condition. Everything had to be transported by air as roads didn't exist. Qantas operated Junkers in the same role prior.. Nev

Definitely not. Flew into Tapini,Woitape from 1967 to 1970 with STOL and it was a far wider strip than this one. Pretty sure this one is in West Papua/Irian Jaya or whatever they call it these days. The PC6, (Susi Air), is the same one that was in the U-tube vids of 'Most Dangerous' flying or airstrips.The Caribou that crashed here in '68 or '69 took its gear off on the threshold and slid into the RHS drain about 300m into the strip - a bad undershoot due to lack of experience in false horizon effect. (RAAF would never ask the unwashed commercial industry for any info/advice on getting in/out of these places).

Unfortunately it was the wrong valley and once landed, they couldn't get back up.

I was down from Mendi for the weekend and ran into a cousin who was in the RAAF and he was leading the Recovery Party.

Papuan ski-jump runway

If it is, there was (back in the early 1970s) the remains of a Caribou up near form where the photo was taken, that had "a few issues".

Apart from that, once airborne, turn right (otherwise you run into the mountain range over the other side of the (narrow) valley) and barrel on to Moresby.

the "my house on a quarter acre block" culture which arose at the beginning of the Baby Boom era.

I think you'll find the Governor Phillip, First Fleet and all that, mandated the 1/4 acre.  This so everyone could grow their own vegetables and have some chooks.

Wealthier people took it a couple of steps further so they could have an orchard and a cow.

The poor retaliated by raising goats, which they let run free around town.

And so on.

Cooloola Cove Flyin Lunch, organised by the Monduran Aero Club.A Big success, and a big thanks to all concerned especially Rod at Cooloola for a great day with 23 planes and well over 50 people in attendance.

 

Look forward to the next one.

 

The photos say it all with picture perfect weather.

 

What type is that one on pix 3 on the left.  It has a sort of modified C130 undercarriage and by the looks of it, very stubby wings

Wouldn't the mission being a Carrier landing have anything to do with both Throttle and Stick continuous adjustments?

For 'Uncontained' engine fail damage,. the most spectacular incident would have to be the DC10 incident in the US, where all of the flight controls were severed when one of the rear mounted engines failed causing a large component to scythe through all the hydraulic lines. . . .that's a peach and still available on youtube if you have not seen it. Brilliant use of assymetric power only, saved a heck of a lot of lives.Sorry, I don't have a link to hand.

The W.A. Govt brought in legislation to stop the continuing and never-ending Bell Group legal fiasco, and it was rejected as being unconstitutional.

Its probably only Karma. After all Ashby sunk the "Slipper", with far less evidence than what is being played out publicly.

I know. . .I know. . .I'm just into PlanePorn. . . . . .

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