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There would have to be a very sizeable proportion of the population engaged in growing kelp to provide the quantity required for our current levels of fuel usage. Australia consumes 90,000,000 litres of petrol alone, every day. Daily Gasoline consumption of the U.S. is 1,285,000,000 litres. Jet fuel consumption for the U.S. is 170,000,000 litres daily. And these are 2020 figures, when fossil fuel consumption figures were subdued.

I think solar-produced hydrogen, and solar-produced electricity, have vastly more potential than trying to grow our fuel requirements.

The key to Google searches is using multiple keywords, variations of the keywords (different names for the same thing), reversing the position of keywords - and scrolling through multiple pages of results. Google will find it eventually, if it's there on the 'net. 

The only thing a Google search won't find, is discussions on forums where the forum webmaster has deemed the forum is not searchable by search engines.

I'm on another forum like that, Google and Bing bots always show up in the "who's online", but they're blocked from searching the forum threads. Not the case with this forum. You only need to search using "recreational flying + keywords", and you'll find what you were looking for, much faster and more effectively than the forum search engine.

The same applies for the likes of Gumtree - searches on Gumtree itself turns up poor results, a Google search with "Gumtree + keywords" and you'll get multiple accurate results.

I immediately get suspicious when sellers never post any photos of the actual article - not even the crate! Just photos of "similar" item. Maybe it's just laziness on the part of the seller or maybe it's something more devious. After 40 years in storage, I would like to know the exact style and position of storage. Mechanical items in storage corrode and deteriorate just as fast as items in use.

I've seen fully reconditioned engines seize up solid with bore corrosion, after just 2 years in undercover storage. Coastal storage areas are the worst, the air is full of windborne salt.

Oh Dear! If he'd spent much less time on the paint job, and a whole lot more time looking for dodgy repairs, and previous crash damage, he might still be flying in it! 

....especially when he became animated with regard to various arguments on positions that he was in favour of - and the animation was in conjunction with some serious spear-waving, in the general direction of those who opposed him.

We managed to find a video of Turbo running one of these meetings, and of course, he's the one wearing the suit, and being a little bolshie with the safety officer, who.......

Here's some more on the Hill Pterodactyl, with further explanation that the design didn't meet expectations of speed and efficiency, and all the Pterodactyl aircraft suffered from excessive pitch sensitivity (as with all flying wing designs).

The combination of pitch sensitivity and a poorer maximum speed than expected made the Air Ministry lose interest - particularly when the prototype Hawker Hart light bomber was 20mph faster.

The site below also features some fairly poor footage on YouTube, of the one of the earliest Pterodactyls, the MK-1A. It's interesting to see that the MK-1A utilised split flaps for yaw control, a feature still used today on the B-2 Stealth bomber. What is new, is not necessarily new, after all.

http://vintageairphotos.blogspot.com/2015/07/flight-of-pterodactyl.html

Interestingly, one Capt G.T.R. Hill designed a number of swept-wing, tail-less aircraft called Pterodactyls between 1925 and the late 1930's. These designs were all built with the principle of a "stall-less" aircraft in mind.

Hill was taken on by Westland and the aircraft were designated "Westland-Hill Pterodactyl", with numerous versions produced. All appeared to be aimed at a military market and military orders.

Despite the fact that the aircraft all proved to be quite viable in operation, the Ministry cancelled all orders for Pterodactyl aircraft just before WW2, and proceeded to favour other, more conventional designs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland-Hill_Pterodactyl

.....coal pipes, which he had designed himself, and which he had a patent on. The coal pipe smoked so clean, the majority of people didn't even know it was lit. Nancy was impressed, she'd always had a "thing" for manly blokes (such as pilots) who smoked pipes, and who wore smoking jackets, and who looked as if even a 7.3 Richter earthquake wouldn't faze them. 

"That coal pipe is just amazing! Look at how clean it is! That is going to be the secret to meeting world emission levels in the next decade! All we have to do is convert all cigarette smokers over to Wallys pipe, and the ozone layer will be saved, and we'll be world leaders in emissions reductions and.........

The link is freely available via a Google search using the pilots name and pprune as search words. I can't remove the link, it can no longer be edited.

The evidence the police have gathered over the last nearly 18mths will almost certainly overwhelm his alibis and lawyers arguments.

Victoria Police are obviously extremely confident that they have a good case, and their investigative work has been outstanding.

The presiding judge will advise any jury to ignore anything they've read or seen on the internet, and to simply deal with the facts as presented.

And if he tries to get clever and demand a trial by judge alone, the judge selected will automatically ignore anything he's read or seen on the media or internet, and deal only with the facts before him. 

.....because the Princess was beckoning him. He pulled up, set the handbrake, and jumped out to catch up with the Princess. But she was fleet of foot, and bull was soon left far behind her. Then suddenly, she disappeared, just as all truckies visual road fantasies do. Bull was stunned, how could she disappear like that? This was worse than his sighting of the Nullarbor Nymph! At least he'd been able to see the Nullarbor Nymph in daylight, and she was.........

The link to the pprune thread is below. Now that Greg Lynn has been charged with two murders, the subject is sub judice, so better to leave things to play out in the courts.

You can be assured the police have a very substantial amount of evidence against him, that will all be revealed in the fullness of time.

https://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/643874-jet-star-vacancy.html

Red, Google has the most comprehensive and all-encompassing search engine that has the best algorithms for finding things. If you use any other search engine, you will only find about two-thirds of what is on the internet.

Google has now added an image search feature called "lens". I'm pretty sure it utilises AI to scan images.

https://lens.google/

.....ecstatic, and the song became his signature tune, on those lo-o-ong road trips in his K-Whoppa. But then came the day the CD player stopped - and no matter what bull tried, he could not make it operate again.

What was he going to do? He still had 1500kms of lo-o-ong lonely road to go, and the camera team were wa-aay up ahead, and now he'd only have the sound of the Cummins and the humming tyres to listen to, which would bore anyone to tears after the first 100 kms - and then there was the sound of the stock, as well!

Yes, Dear NES readers, bull had been a long-distance stock truck driver in a former life, and the smell of cow dung clung to him like.........

....hair, and messed up his mullet. But bull wasn't dismayed, this had happened before, in his previous life as a TV-documentary-starring, long-distance trucker. In that previous life, he'd spent huge amounts of time just trying to avoid the groupies waiting in ambush for him, and who'd then tear his........

....home-made cakes, which the female tourists would flock to, thanks to their widespread reputation. But unfortunately, thanks to the cake enticements, the 1st Officer always ended up with the fat ones, which was not what he had originally envisaged, when he set out the cake enticements.

Bull had a better idea. Icecreams were the ultimate girl-enticement and he would change the offerings from cakes to icecreams, thus ensuring he got a bigger range of sizes in girls.

Turbo spotted the market immediately bull mentioned icecreams, and within 24 hrs, Turbine Superior Ice Cream vans were being signwritten and contracts had been signed for the supply of......

And your chances of getting out in one piece increase if the selected landing area is not congested with signage, lighting, poles, wires and vehicles.

I'd take a flattish farm paddock with fences, over an inviting-looking highway surface full of signage, lighting, poles, wiring and traffic. One single powerline wire on the way down will ruin the best-planned landing.

I can't wait for the more salacious details of this blokes history to come out. Like, he not only worked for Jetstar, but he was an obsessive gun-fondler as well! I'm sure the media and internet keyboard sleuths will make up the missing sections of the story, as they go!

City Beach sand is soft and the beach slopes fairly well, and the beach is well-used by beachgoers during daylight hours. The pilot chose the best of a few poor choices and got lucky, relatively speaking.

The landing could've gone badly if the surf was worse, or if an agglomeration of water currents and swell combined to form a decent wave, right as he landed. I would guess his age and extensive experience and knowledge was his biggest asset.

I'd estimate you'd only have about a 50% chance of a successful landing on a highly-trafficked freeway - despite the attractiveness of such a nice runway-mimicking surface.

The simple problem is, freeways are full of wires, light poles, big signs, overpasses and underpasses - as well as traffic - and none of the aforementioned are favourable to emergency landing outcomes.

One of my former business partners landed his PA-28 on a major highway (the Gt Eastern Hwy between Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie) around 1986, after a fuel selector valve failure.

Despite the highway having had a decent upgrade not long before he landed on it, with more than adequate width (and also being fortunate enough to avoid the relatively light road traffic) - and despite carrying out a successful deadstick landing - he was unfortunate enough to come across a substantial roadside sign which he was unable to avoid, and which severely damaged a wing, resulting in major repairs.

I'd only use my extinguisher on a fire where lives were in danger (people trapped in the vehicle). Otherwise, I'd let it burn. It only takes a small fire for anything to be declared a write-off today, anyway.

He'd be in demand from movie companies for cheap and quick Cargomaster flying footage, it looks extremely realistic coming in to land.

A bloke here in Perth, W.A. has built a huge RC B747. I guess a nice advantage of owning something like this, is getting interviewed by gorgeous chicky-babes from the TV news crews.

It's not flying in the video, he had to run a gauntlet of regulations to fly it, and he eventually got it airborne at Wagin airstrip. I guess there must have been some major restrictions to flying it around Perth city environs.

https://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/baby-boeing-takes-off-over-wagin-ng-b88948929z

The true cost of coal needs to be measured in the vast areas of good farmland it destroys, and the lives it takes, and has taken in the past. Coal mining is one of the most destructive styles of mining on the planet, because it doesn't rip up a relatively small area for a lot of intensely valuable product - as we do with gold and lithium and nickel and cobalt.

Coal mining has taken hundreds of thousands of lives in the past, directly in underground mining (and millions more in deaths from air pollution) - now to make it safer, the coal companies only take the relatively shallow coal, which is spread over vast areas.

Yes, soil rehabilitation from coal mining takes place - but the soil structure is so disturbed by mining and replacement, it can never return to its original, valuable and productive structure. Open-cast coal mining destroys and pollutes major water aquifers. There are underground coal fires causing major destruction and pollution. The levels of methane gas released by simply mining the coal, never seems to get a mention.

The major beneficiaries of open-cast coal mining are the huge mining machine manufacturers of America, and the Global Oil corporations. Caterpillar used to make machines for agriculture, now it makes more money out of machines for coal mining, and it produces very little agricultural machinery. 

I've been a gold miner, a mining contractor, and a farmer, and I think I have a reasonably balanced view. But way too many politicians are still beholden to Big Coal and Big Oil to see the way forward is not increasing the worlds reliance on coal, but on reducing it - and making sure we utilise that massive amount of free energy that falls on us daily from that big golden orb in the sky.

I detest being held to ransom perpetually by Big Oil and Big Coal. The diversification of our energy sources makes the same sense as the diversification of your income sources.

Barnaby Joyce, is that you posting under F10's username? 

Old K - I used a can of Penrite P26 foaming intake cleaner recently on a Ford Ranger, that seemed to be quite effective. I had an EGR fault code on the Ranger, which was related to improper EGR valve operation (sticking), and the P26 seemed to clean up the intake and exhaust nicely. I was able to clear the fault code after I used the can of P26, and the fault hasn't returned.

How do you reckon the poor bugger who got lost in his Wackett in 1962 would have gone with the plastic bag trick?

https://www.adastra.adastron.com/people/wackett-1.htm

I don't know how much the hardy bushes and small trees in the desert/semi-desert regions would produce by way of water, but I would imagine it's not 1 litre a day.

We live in a much-improved age today where communications are superb - as compared to previous decades where communications were extremely limited.

Every single sad story of people who perished in remote regions after becoming lost would not exist if todays communications were available to them.

I have personally known more than one person who perished when they became trapped in a remote spot, and they had no communication. Some of those "remote spots" were merely back paddocks on farms.

Make sure you have a good PLB that you keep close to you when you travel in remote regions, and ensure you can reach it, if you're injured or trapped.