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....with Cappy stating, as bull left - "Well, if that's his best look, I'd hate to see his worst look!" "That can't possibly be bull?", said OT. "First off, bull never dresses up like that! Secondly, he never gets a haircut like that, and thirdly, he doesn't have the calloused hands of a Jackeroo pilot, which is a dead giveaway, and which shows that bull has paid someone to.........

You know you're getting old when all the police and all the pilots look so young! The average age of RAF fighter pilots in 1940 was just 20. That's the average age, so that means a lot were well under 20.

Young people are chosen for these jobs because of their keen eyesight and hearing, their quick reflexes - and with young males, bravado that is often indistinguishable from foolhardiness.

.....with very little success - because the Lawyer X impersonator he tried to mount, was none other than bull, doing his leading part in the COVID-19 lockdown protest crowd.

"Gerroff me, ya fat wog!!", cried bull, "I'm not a lawyer, and not a woman either! Can't ya see I'm wearing a wig and padding!"

"But I heard you like it Greek-style!", said smooth Tony. "You know us Greeks! A hole is a hole is a hole, and we aren't too fussy about whether it's .......

....OT, "There was a bloke who flew through here last Christmas Eve, and he had no lights, no ATC clearance, was seriously well over MTOW, had unrestrained animals on his outfit, and it's understood he specialises in flying at or below chimney height! Yet HE got away with it! - so I don't see any major problems with the Drifters in question, except perhaps for........

The wind contains gusts which are faster than the average wind speed. The wind-propelled vehicle has momentum, and the propellor/rotor has momentum, and is also supplying "lift" once it is spinning - i.e., forward propulsion that is faster than the wind speed. Newtons Law says that an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed, and in a straight line, unless acted on by an unbalanced force.

Nev, I think SP is referring to a Beaver with an Alvis Leonides powerplant. Only one was built.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/canada/dehavilland_beaver.php?p=2

So ... it's all you corporate directors that are the real threat to Australias security! I knew it! Fancy having taken this long to determine who your real enemy is! 

The fact that a sizeable percentage of crashes in recent years where supposedly competent AT pilots couldn't even identify an upset flying condition, let alone recover from it, means this training should have been introduced as a priority.

Then there the ones who initiated an upset, then took too long to identify the upset, or incorrectly identified the type of upset, or initiated an incorrect response to the upset.

I think we can exonerate the crews in the case of the 2 x 737 MAX crashes, hardly a pilot knew how the 737 MAX MCAS system actually worked.

Those old Alvis Leonides sound very much like the Nakajima in the Zero. Gee, they're ancient, they were designed in 1936!

See page 20 in the link below. Dust devils are a real and constant threat in nearly all dry inland areas during Spring and Summer.

https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/5774797/asd_101_78.pdf

He put in a total of 28 bottles, because he just kept reaching behind him, and opening one bottle after another. You blokes don't understand anything about "artistic licence", do you? 

They certainly had a chequered career!

https://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/twin-pioneer/twinpioneer.html

Bruce, the wind is needed, because it's the primary and sole energy force. The propellor merely converts the energy available in the wind pressure, to movement - and that movement can be faster than the wind speed.

https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/newtlaws/u2l1a.cfm#first

......upon receipt of his St Turbo plaque, OT found it was actually made of coated plastic, as is normal with Turbo Inc's cost-saving schemes.

Regardless, OT was grateful to receive the plaque, and had it drilled to hang from the top of the windshield on the Drifter, so he could be reassured, and sing the "Plastic St Turbo" song, as he flew along .........

(sung to the tune of "Plastic Jesus") ....

I don't care about rain or blow
Long as my plastic Saint Turbo
Is ridin' right in front of my Drifter
Through my trials and tribulations
And my travels through the nations
With my Turbo plaque I'll never crash
Ridin' down the empty airways
With the nose pointing through the air
A crash may be ahead - But he don't mind
Trouble comin', he don't see
He just keeps his eye on me
And any other thing that lies behind ........

(apologies to Ed Rush and George Cromarty....)

F10, I think you'll find most of the British WW2 fighters had laminated wooden props. Aluminium was needed for fuselages and wings and was in short supply and quite expensive.

Aluminium scrap drives were a constant feature of WW2 and millions of pots and pans, and aluminium components from scrapped vehicles, were sought eagerly by the Govts of the day, for aircraft manufacture.

In addition, aluminium propellor construction involved more technical skills than wooden propellors. Futhermore, there were hundreds of thousands of carpenters and woodworkers who had all the necessary skills to make wooden propellors.

Aluminium propellors became necessary as aircraft weight increased enormously (as in fully-loaded bombers), and engine HP kept increasing from the 1000 HP range of the early Spitfires, to the 2500 to 3000 HP of the engines in the later stages of WW2.

Prof Brad Blackford of Novia Scotia has built several boats, utilising a wind-driven propellor to provide energy to drive the boat directly into the wind. The wind-driven propellor drives a propellor under the hull in normal fashion, via a driveshaft.

Blackfords design allows the wind-driven propellor to rotate 360° and face into the wind, regardless of which direction the boat is travelling.

In an interview with Bradford, he explained how he'd perfected the idea over 35 years of tinkering and calculation. He utilises a carbon-fibre propellor with a foam core.

As Bradford states, "You're looking for maximum net force, not maximum net power. There's a subtle difference". 

https://www.bluebird-electric.net/wind_powered_ships_marine_renewable_energy_research.htm

In 2009, Prof Marc Drela - an MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics - produced the first equations, demonstrating the feasibility of "Dead-Downwind Faster Than The Wind (DDWFTTW)".

http://www.change-climate.com/Transport_Land_Sea_Sustainable/Assisted_Ships_Sails_Solar_Projects_Marine_Pollution/Rotary_Sails_Powered_Sailing_Boats_Ships_Turbines_Wind_Cars.htm

Maybe Red needs to study up his physics and Newtonian Laws again.

https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/newtlaws/Lesson-2/Determining-the-Net-Force

As has been noted previously by an astute observer; "When you read the records relating to eyewitnesses evidence, provided for a crash investigation, it tends to make one doubt the worlds entire recorded history".

If substantial free energy is available from the wind, it's not that hard to arrange the energy flow, so that the device can propel itself faster than the wind speed. The power available from the wind is enormous.

I guess this means Red believes those big wind turbines are a huge fraud too - producing vast amounts of electrical energy from just a bit of wind, can't be possible!

....ozone layer, which had previously been protecting him from any approach by the witches. But once his ozone layer had been holed, Ratty's pong origin was completely and unmistakably evident.

The witches approached him as one, with blood-curdling shrieks, and Ratty was forced to.....

.....thought he could overcome the pong by throwing a whole bottle of Chanel No 5 over his cloak. That worked to the extent that he managed to get through the door, and passed the witches "sniff test" - but when he took his cloak off once inside (because it was quite warm inside, what with all the cauldrons on the bubble), that the Rats pong became overpowering - to the extent it even overpowered the various witches bubbling brews.

"What's that horrible smell?", cried Joan from Bridport. "Has someone dragged in a dead rat? We don't use things like that in our cauldrons, something must have died under the hall?"

Ratty was becoming quite uncomfortable by now, as it was starting to become obvious the source of the smell would soon be discovered, and he would need to...........

....the Tasmanian Witches Coven Ltd, who believed they were sidelined when it came to the floor prizes on Devil Night. "We had a nice range of genuine witchey products planned for floor prizes on the Devils Night fundraiser", said Helen of Longford.

"There were prizes such as eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat, tongue of dog, adder's fork, blind-worm's sting, lizard's leg, and howlet's wing. These would have all come nicely packaged, and would have been very useful to anyone wanting to cast a spell".

"There would've been additional prizes for best costume on the Night - but of course, if anyone came dressed as a mouse in a cloak, and carrying a Jedi wand, they wouldn't get in, because we're a lot more choosy as to who we let in to Devil Nights fundraisers, and a costume such as that, is so passe, because we........

I've read repeatedly that a taildragger is a lot safer in a forced landing in less-than-ideal terrain, due to the fact that they have a far lower tendency to flip over. Is this really the case?

I thought everyone knew, when selling an item, you used the standard eBay photo taken on dusk, the one that's 15 yrs old, and the one that is taken on the side that shows no imperfections. Oh - and you only provide one photo, taken from 50M away. Caveat Emptor!

Indulging in fraudulent behaviour is something completely different to "booming up" a well-worn product with faults, that a buyer is selling.

Fraud involves planned deception to gain benefit (usually financial), and must involve a trail of misleading and deceptive conduct, whereby the victim is tricked into believing that information provided is true, when it is demonstrably false.

As with all crimes, "beyond reasonable doubt" has to be proven in a court of law, for the perpetrator to be convicted of a fraud crime.

C'mon Marty - It's a pure BS, American movie!  You have to have your disbelief unsuspended, the instant any of these movies start!

Do a 10 metre high, 80 metre long jump in a s***box of an American sedan that normally handles like a marshmallow - and just drive off, right after you land? - Ri-i-ight!

Jump in and out of aircraft, start them and take off with no preflight checks, no flight plans, and no conversations with ATC?? - Ri-i-ight!

Have a massive explosive device go off right next to you - and you just roll out of the explosion and flames, and keep running with no shell-shock, deafness or blindness?? - Ri-i-i-ight!!

The idiotic scenes are endless in these movies, we used to sit and point out the absurdities, and have a great laugh about them. 

I remember reading about how many Dodge Chargers they went through in the Dukes of Hazzard. No-one really kept count, it was estimated they destroyed between 250 and 325 Dodge Chargers in 147 episodes.

Most of the Dodges just fell apart or somersaulted as they landed after a jump, and they had to provide another identical-looking car for the Dukes to keep driving off in.

You get no warranties, and no help whatsoever from the Commonwealth, or any of its agencies, on any of the aircraft, or any of the aircraft parts - you need to read the "Special Conditions of Sale".

https://www.pickles.com.au/getPublicStockAttachment?id=1020012508

(These) Military aircraft are being sold on an "As Is, Where Is" basis with no CoA, CoR or MR. Maintenance records in log books, if available. Support unavailable after purchase.

The Commonwealth will provide CAMM2 records if available, but will not vouch for their accuracy, nor their completeness.

https://www.pickles.com.au/facet-search#!/search-result?q=(And.All.keyword(pilatus)._.Salvage.non-Salvage._.ProductType.General Goods.)

https://www.pickles.com.au/facet-search#!/search-result?q=(And.All.keyword(glider)._.Salvage.non-Salvage._.ProductType.General Goods.)