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Here's links to the Anson jack information. Peter Anson Engineering manufactures several types of aircraft jacks and is shortly going to produce a "Jabajack" for Jabirus.

http://www.ansoneng.com/lightweight-screw-jack/

http://www.ansoneng.com/sample-page/products-summary/jabajack/

Run your tyres at the manufacturers recommended pressure and you won't go wrong. If you lower your tyre pressure substantially below the recommended pressure, you stand a chance of damaging the tyre sidewall via the rim impacting the sidewall, in any heavy landing.

A heavy landing will double and even triple the normal load on the undercarriage and tyres. You only need a sudden drop of 50mm onto a hard surface to double the normal load.

Then there's the additional bead-to-rim pressure from braking. As a general rule, you should never go below about 12psi (83kPa) for tyre pressure, as under that pressure you stand a very good chance of bead slippage on the rim, or rolling the tyre off the rim, with any side thrust.

Ralph Sarichs innovation company, Cape Bouvard Technologies, is trying to progress a "structural battery", but I'm not sure how far they've advanced, or how many millions they've poured into it. They've been onto it for at least 10 yrs.

http://www.capebouvardtechnologies.com.au/tech

I get the distinct impression, that to get a major advance in battery efficiency, along with lighter weight, requires a huge amount of money, and a very large research team.

As a result, it is the universities that are being funded by backers with deep pockets, that are "producing the goods", when it comes to major advances in battery design.

Look at Elon Musk, one of the richest men on the planet, with the ability to pour mega-billions into research, and the Tesla 4680 battery is the best he and his teams can come up with.

Thanks Johnm - However, the "Look up and Live" app you linked to, only operates in QLD., N.S.W., Vic., and S.A.

W.A., the N.T. and Tasmania are not included.

ARTICLE QUOTE - "Bye Aerospace has been working on its electric aircraft concept since 2007 and is still in the process of delivering its first airplane".

I don't think I'll be holding my breath waiting for a sales-ready electric aircraft from this mob. As with many public companies, as long as the company coffers are regularly replenished by suckers with a few million to throw away - and the money is still there to pay executives salaries, the leases, and replace the corporate Beemers and Audi's - then the CEO and his minions are generally very happy to keep things trundling along at that rate, with no real pressing, fixed timeline, to deliver the goods.

Maybe someone could have got the "larrikin" bit removed from the story. It's not a good look for RA to have a bloke who killed himself in an aircraft to have "larrikin" as the major description of the man. 

Everyday readers of the article will immediately rate "larrikin" up there with "hoon", and the gossip mill will go into overdrive, with the main object of the gossip being that, "all these RA pilots are larrikins - and there's the proof". 

I don't understand how an electric aircraft is going to be used for pilot training? If a pilot needs to get somewhere, he needs to be able (and trained and licenced) to drive an IC-engined aircraft.

......into rear seats, because front seats about to disappear in a..........

Glide performance - https://skybrary.aero/articles/glide-performance

IMO, OME's wording in the first post is not correct. You wouldn't "swing around to the reciprocal direction of the forecast wind, and use it to maintain airspeed to maintain flying for longer".

You'd only want to swing 180° to reduce GS at the landing site - and you'd need to know if the wind speed at ground level at your chosen landing site, was strong enough to warrant a reversal of direction, that would make a major difference to GS in a deadstick landing. Of course, the terrain also has to come into the decision-making for a forced landing site.

A tailwind forced landing on an uphill slope would work out O.K., but a tailwind forced landing on a downhill slope, I would imagine is pretty much a nightmare scenario.

As I previously said, I'd be trying to avoid aircraft energy loss and altitude loss, caused by carrying out a 180° turn.

The Flying Pinocchio?

I wonder what nickname they gave it? Something that fugly would have to have a nickname.

Imagine the person in front and above you letting rip with a potent Indian curry fart? You'd cop it right in the face! It's bad enough as it is now, on commercial aircraft, with the current cramped economy seating!

Qantas could always go with "Mean-Spirited of Australia". Joyce represents the meanest of the corporate culture of personal greed, and shafting of the nation. What makes these grubs think they're entitled to multiple tens of millions in salaries, options and bonuses, simply because they're CEO's?

And they do it by making sure employees rights and earnings are ground down ruthlessly to subsistence level. This is the bloke who shut the airline down for days, just to get what he wanted from employee negotiations.

Employee morale level is how the CEO's renumeration should be set. Higher morale = higher salary for the CEO. On that basis, Joyces renumeration would now be down to subsistence level.

The CL604 Challenger cruises at 870kmh/469kts, which is Mach 0.7. I can understand why the AMSA Challengers only get limited use, they're really only suited for long range ocean SAR duty.

But if I was floating in my lifejacket 2500kms W of the W.A. coastline, I'd be very pleased to sight an AMSA Challenger! 

I can't imagine they'd get much use within continental Australia. There's never been a commercial jet forced down in the Gibson Desert - but I guess it does play to plan for it!

I can remember speaking to a rescue bloke many years ago, and he said the thought that gives them the heebie-jeebies, is a commercial jet going down in the heavy scrubland N and W of Israelite Bay.

As this area is on the regular flight paths of the East-West commercial flights, and the area has virtually no decent ground access, access to any crash site out there would be very dependent on choppers.

Pickles will have set a reserve price on the aircraft, in consultation with the seller. Pickles aren't known for giving things away, their reserves prices are usually initially aimed high.

But what happens with auctions, is that if the item is auctioned and doesn't meet the reserve, it is put up again - and then if the bids still fall far short of what the seller and Pickles have set, they reset the reserve price to a lower figure.

The item will then generally sell, once all the potential buyers are drawn out of the woodwork, and all the genuine bids are placed.

Unlike a liquidation auction, where the liquidator is trying to get rid of assets quickly to satisfy a bunch of creditors, auctions such as the one above, rarely produce any real bargains.

Even if the seller is an insurer (I'm not sure whether DBCA would insure their aircraft, or carry their own insurance - but I would guess that the cost of insurance would make self-insuring a real possibility for the DBCA), insurers rarely sell insurance claim items at a low price, if they have a reasonable chance of repair.

As I see it, the new owner would have to factor in a replacement fuselage frame, and all the labour involved in swapping all the parts and components from the damaged fuselage frame over to the new frame.

On that basis, I would estimate Flightrite is near the mark, and someone will finally acquire it for around $100K - $120K, because the seller will have done his homework, and costed all the outlay required to get her in the air again.

Where was the original photo taken? It almost looks like an Australian salt lake bed.

This American Champion Scout 8GCBC is a 2021 model with only 2.1 hrs test flight time - but it's been damaged by a falling hangar door. The wings were not attached at the time of the damage incident.

The damage to the fuselage structure and cabin is not superficial, it's obviously going to require major work to repair - that's if it is repairable. 

The aircraft is fitted with a 180HP Lycoming O-320 C1G and Hartzell variable pitch prop. It is registered as VH-EWP.

It's currently located at Pickles Auctions yard in Bibra Lake, W.A., and no viewing of the item is available, you purchase on what you can see in the photos.

Auction commences 11th July 2022 at 10:00AM AWST, and ends Sunday 17th July 2022 at 5:00PM AWST.

I'm fairly sure this aircraft has been one of W.A.'s Dept of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) aircraft (who thinks these names up? - this must be about the 5th change of name for the Dept!).

DBCA are amongst the largest users of American Champion Scout 8GCBC aircraft, they're used for fire spotting and water bombing operations supervision.

They operate 10 of them, and turn them over at 4000 hrs TT, and go and buy new Champion Scout replacements.

DBCA and its predecessor, DPAW (Dept Parks And Wildlife) have gone through nearly 30 of these aircraft, and they obviously think they're the ducks gonads, thanks to their performance and STOL abilities.

https://www.pickles.com.au/trucks/item/-/details/AMERICAN-CHAMPION-AIRCRAFT---MODEL--Scout-8GCBC/3040239496

https://www.americanchampionaircraft.com/post/new-8gcbc-for-dpaw

Two crew both fighting for control of the aircraft at the same time, without communicating the basic, "I have control"? Where have we seen this before? Haven't the AF pilot training people learnt anything yet?

https://liveandletsfly.com/air-france-11-control-battle/

Look up Proflow fuel filters. Australian made, and available in your choice of a 10, 40, 65 or 100 micron stainless steel woven mesh element.

Just a little more outlay than your average Supercheap Aerospace/Chinese Ryco rubbishy paper filter, but I'm sure you'll appreciate paying the extra $$'s to acquire a product that speaks quality and performance, that means the fan doesn't stop when your fuel turns out to be less-than-aviation-grade purity.

4 pages of just fuel filter products alone, below ....

https://www.proflow.com.au/custom-car-shop/fuel-air-system/fuel-filters-elements/

Armin Faber was his name - and his name would have no doubt been uttered in disgust, amongst the Nazis and the Luftwaffe.

His piloting and dogfighting skills were pretty good - but he obviously only just made the grade, on his map-reading and navigational tests.

The most incredible part of the whole story is how a British airfield duty pilot climbed aboard his FW-190 after his landing, and arrested him with a flare gun! - because the British airfield staff were deemed to not need firearms!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Faber

Armin Faber was sent to Canada as POW, but conned the Canadians into believing he had epilepsy - so he was repatriated to Germany because of "ill health".

Faber promptly returned to flying duties with the Luftwaffe (which was most certainly no longer the potent Luftwaffe he had previously known).

https://fcafa.com/2011/10/26/unintentional-gift/

I've had those little inline plastic filters with the paper element, block up completely, and stop the flow of fuel to the point where the vehicle engine starved of fuel.

An experience that is annoying on the ground, but one experience that is highly undesirable in the air!

I would expect that RA-Aus doesn't have enough available people with the necessary substantial aviation training and long experience, to be able to issue substantially larger and more expansive crash reports, or experiences or failures, that rate as "important to know". 

I would suggest that perhaps retired aviation people have something to offer in this case, providing further opinions or assessments of RA-Aus incidents that could be presented to them to advise on, as part of the final report.

We no longer have enough people today, of the calibre and dedication of Macarthur Job, to keep up the continuous flow of good flying advice, and the competent dissection of adverse aviation events.

When the power input stops, isn't your major priority establishing best glide speed? Personally, I'd be avoiding 180 deg turns at all costs, once the fan stopped. The advice below comes from long-established experience.

https://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/2018/media/SE_Topic_18-05.pdf

Here's todays ABC News article about the Tornado. I have already posted the Community Family Day event that the Bullcreek RAAFA Museum is having early next month, when the Tornado is put on display for the first time.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-23/tornado-gr4-arrives-at-perth-aviation-heritage-museum/101173590

I saw no-one mention a PLB? That'd have to be a very important item to carry, so you can get help coming fast - rather than lying there wondering when they were going to start missing you?