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Red, there's no record of any company or organisation in Canada called J & J Aero Concept Inc - so they must be defunct as regards being currently in business. Either that, they are located in Quebec and have only a record available in the French language. The Quebecois like to consider themselves distinctly separate, rather than Canadian.

I don't cut and paste, I write everything I put up myself. If I do put up anyone elses work, I put it in quotation marks, which is the correct thing to do. I'm simply expressing my opinion, not making statements, and claiming them to be irrefutable. Feel free to disagree without rancour or snarkiness, that's the basis of all civilised discussion.

........chance of your energy plans succeeding, unless you factor mallee roots into the equation. Because, you should know that Turbine Roots Inc has an option on every mallee root left lying in farmers paddocks - and when my company employees gather them all up, I'll be in possession of enough thermal energy to fill the major gaps in your dubious long-term renewables energy plan, via burning those roots in those currently-coal-fired power stations, that are a real burr under your saddle!" "You see, dry seasoned mallee roots burn hot and clean, and have no nasty emissions, unlike coal. It's a win-win situation for everyone here, (especially me, muttered Turbo under his breath) - we clean up farmers paddocks, resulting in great farmer joy - we reduce emissions from coal to zero, because we no longer burn any coal - and you can keep the thermal power station supporters on board, by not dismantling those old coal-fired power stations!" "That is absolutely brilliant, Turbo!" cried Chris Bowen. "I'm going to propose a new 'Alternative Energy Commissioner' position for you to slide into, so you have full reign over the energy generation systems throughout the entire Eastern States!" (he purposely omitted mentioning or including W.A. - as like many East Coast residents, he fully believes that there's nothing but wasteland to the West of the S.A. Border). "That's extremely generous of you", said Turbo, "but I'm going to have to ask, what is...............

it's definitely not an Aero Concept Firekracker, but I have absolutely no idea what it is. I guess the puzzling part is, the weird combination of design ideas in it - from the German WW1 Maltese Cross symbols, right through to the a**-dragging underslung pilot seating position, and the radial engine cowling, which hides a horizontally opposed HKS engine. Then there's the fake bomb mounted between the landing gear - it obviously has military connotations. It's almost like the designer aimed to achieve a blend of historic and modern design, all in the one unit. I'd hazard a guess it probably flies quite well, and is inherently stable like a C172. But it must be a bit unnerving on landing to be nearly dragging your bum on the ground, like riding in a early Mini Minor. Plus, that huge obstruction in the form of the support directly in front of the pilot must be annoying, and even bordering on dangerous. I'll wager only one has been built. It kind of reminds of the 1929 McClary A Motor Glider - which seems to have no reports on whether it even got airborne, or if it did, how well it performed. https://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Shumaker/6191.htm

......Church of the Massive Root Disciples Filled With the Flame of Righteousness. The followers of this new and exciting religion were encouraged to seek out roots wherever they could be found, and to gather around those roots, to worship them as Gifts from God. Pastor Turbine adopted the classic religious clothing of long flowing purple robes, and this outfitting was enhanced by his glowing tanned complexion and carefully-coiffured, platinum-coloured hair. "Hallelujah!!", cried a number of his followers, when he appeared on stage at the rented factory, temporary gathering place - which site was simply being used while a new Temple was being built. Turbo encouraged his followers to give freely for Temple funding, because as he intoned, in his sonorous tones, "Only those who have contributed more than $1000 towards the Temple, will be given access to Heaven! Thus it is written in Antioch Chapter 23, Verse 13, of the Holy Book of the Massive Root Disciples!! Furthermore, we must be relentless in smiting our enemies, who seek to stop us from constantly looking for roots!" This intonement led the assembled gathering to hurry to find their Officeworks copies of the Holy Book, which comprised no less than..............

SWR needs a coating of lubricant/preservative to ensure it lasts, and performs properly. You can buy a sizeable range of spray or brush-on coatings/lubricants for SWR. The coating protection prevents rusting and the lubricant penetrates the cable strands, and prevents internal friction between the strands, and therefore reduces wear on the strands.

Blueadventures - Sorry, I have to disagree with you on the above point. Good quality 316 stainless steel with the specified levels of chrome and nickel content, is graded as high tensile, and its resistance to corrosion is excellent. Steel wire rope must be correctly sized for the intended use, and properly treated when in use. Kinks, flattened wire strands and overload situations are the killer of all steel wire ropes. Galvanised coatings are easily damaged and once damaged, corrosion of regular high tensile carbon steel wire starts rapidly, and continues unchecked. When the corrosion is deep in the cable strands, it is very hard to find. I do have substantial steel wire rope experience, I started using it the day I left school, and have used it extensively for 60 years. I have never heard of stainless steel wire failing to give indication of impending failure. The wire strands in SWR start to fracture independently and singly, and give adequate notice of failure, if heard or visually seen snapping - and total failure can be avoided if the load is released, and the SWR inspected accordingly to check for wire strand failure. Unfortunately, there is a lot of Asian-manufactured stainless steel that fails to meet globally-agreed specifications, and the use of this sub-standard stainless steel, has been behind numerous product failures involving stainless steel products.

I don't understand why you wouldn't use 316 stainless in those cables. The corrosion levels there are horrendous.

.........really long, hard nights, when I accidentally positioned the swag on top of a few of the biggest roots around, at the B&S Ball. It made for a very uncomfortable night, especially with several roots, all vying for attention in the swag. It was only after I got up.......................

......said, "This is nothing, compared to some of the roots I've dug up, at past B&S Balls! Some of them, I needed at least a dozen additional blokes, to help me get....................

Matt Wright has been sentenced to 10 mths in jail, suspended after 5 mths served, after being found guilty on two counts of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. He was placed on a good behaviour bond for a further 2 years. He was also fined $5000 for lying to police in relation to the amount of fuel in the crashed helicopters fuel tank. The tank was empty, but Wright told NT Police there was still fuel in it, when he first arrived at the crash site. The judge also commented about Wrights company Helibrook, disobeying aviation safety requirements as regards logging correct hours run in its helicopters. He stated it was likely the crashed helicopter had exceeded its 2,200 hr time to overhaul limit, as a result of hour meters being disconnected when being operated - a "system" that Wright claimed was widespread in the helicopter industry. Just claiming the "hour-meter-doctoring" system was widespread thoughout the helicopter industry, is not a valid, nor even a logical response. I can recall at least one helicopter crash in W.A. where the pilot/owner was killed due to rotor failure, caused by ignoring the rotor overhaul time limit. The investigation proved that the crashed helicopter had accumulated a lot more hours than the hour meter read, because the investigators went through the helicopters fuel purchase/consumption records, and the helicopters fuel use did not jell with the hour meter reading, at the time of the crash. Outback Wrangler star Matt Wright sentenced to 10 months’ jail after fatal helicopter crash | Northern Territory | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Reality TV star jailed for trying to cover up evidence after the 2022 crash that killed co-star Chris ‘Willow’ Wilson

......was intent on a more attention-grabbing headline. He found it, when Turbo sought out and found the biggest root around - and it was something that Turbo had been looking for, ever since he was a pimply-faced 14 yr old, reading those naughty "girlie" books in the thunderbox, that all contained pictures of near-naked girls. Once Turbo found his biggest and best root in the Mallee, he had to put it on display - and the Pravda journalist was absolutely delighted to produce the following photo, along with the story about how Turbo had........

.......worship at the altar of wooden gods, rather than worshipping at the altar of Saint Thomas More. Albo had always thought that the "More" actually stood for his renumeration, and was quite surprised after many years of worshipping, to find that Saint Thomas More was actually a politician himself. But furthermore, when Albo found out that Thomas More had lost his head in politics, he decided it was a far wiser move to change religion, and worship wooden gods instead. However, there was the constant problem of splinters when worshipping wooden gods, so Albo set out to....................................

I often wonder about what would happen when a chopper has an engine failure when doing aerial rescue, and the rescued person and a crew member are on the winch. I would guess this is the reason most rescue choppers are turbine. But the bottom line is, you're only going one direction, when you forget to fuel up.

Here is an earlier ABC News article (dated Sept 2025), outlining Wrights five grounds of appeal against his conviction. Unfortunately, as mentioned above, all the grounds he listed were rejected today. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-27/matt-wright-five-grounds-of-appeal-revealed/105824618

Matt Wright, who was found guilty on two charges of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, after a four week trial, back in August 2025, has lost his appeal against the guilty verdicts. In another blow for Wright, he lodged a complaint with the NT Police Professional Standards Command, over comments made by a NT police officer who was involved in the crash investigation. Wright, through his lawyer, claimed that Detective Senior Sergeant Corey Borton made "potentially defamatory statements" about Wright and his wife in a media interview. The NTPPSC reviewed Bortons comments and rejected any NT Police liability or inference that Wright had been defamed. Ignore the lurid headlines, the story below is reasonably accurate, but it does not report on the current outcome of Wrights double loss, on the charges appeal, and on the police statements complaint. Things have not turned out well for the Outback Wrangler, and he is yet to be sentenced for his convictions. As with all crashes resulting in fatality or fatalities, there are never any winners, and a lot of people always refuse to man up for their failings. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15303469/Outback-Wrangler-Matt-Wright.html

Despite looking like a fragile death trap, Ken Brock was very successful with his gyroplanes, and they were inherently safe. But he was very badly injured in the mid-1980's, when he was hit by a rotor blade from his own gyroplane, when he landed quickly and exited too fast, to try and help another aviator who had crashed. However, the greatest irony of Ken Brocks shortened career, was that he was killed in 2001, when the Thorp T-18 he had built, crashed on rollout at his private airstrip. An official investigation showed the tailwheel fork had broken due to corrosion, letting the tailwheel depart the aircraft and causing Ken to lose directional control. The Thorp left the airstrip and hit a vertical steel post on an adjoining property, tore off a wing, and went inverted. Ken was trapped in the aircraft, suspended in his harness, and his death was caused by asphyxiation, as he'd suffered blunt force injuries and he was trapped upside down with his head pressed sharply to one side, causing the asphyxiation. His wife was passenger in the aircraft and survived with only minor injuries. The investigators commented on the lack of a roll cage in the Thorp, which would possibly have prevented Kens death, or at least allowed him to be extracted, before he suffocated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Brock_Manufacturing https://www.buildagyrocopter.com/sport-pilot-pioneer-ken-brock/ https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/53646/pdf

.............tuition in the fine legal art of screwing clients with no physical contact. However, the part of the prosecutors statement that raised eyebrows in the courtroom was the part that said, "Raj Withasmaran is charged with decorating his truck in the most un-Australian manner, with tassels, beads, images, symbols and signage, that not only blights our roads and dazzles other motorists, but these decorations are also illegal, unsafe and offensive to any transport inspector that patrols the Highways of Australia." "Furthermore, the logbooks are being filled out in Hindi, which is an offence under Section 14, Part 3, Sub-part 7 (a), Clause 17 (c) of the Heavy Vehicle National Law, which section states that............. (Dear NES'ers, further to the excellent photo posted by Turbo of one of Cappys finest motels, one has to add a photo of Raj Witharmarans heavily disguised Kenworth, traversing the Grong Grong Bypass on the Newell, with a load that is also raising suspicion amongst Transport Inspectors, due to its apparent illegality......)

.......over the lack of good Indian curries, Rogan Josh, Murgh Makhani, Murgh Kari, Chana Masala, Palak Paneer, Dal Makhani, Rajma Chawal and of course, not forgetting Beef Vindaloo, in Pie Face outlets. It was only after managers promised to get rid of the pies, and deliver the curries, that the beatings stopped. But for now, the truck drivers would have to find a suitable Indian cafe selling proper chaat. After search, aided by numerous Uber and DiDi drivers, the truck drivers were re-directed to the taxi drivers favourite spot - which place could be easily found by the overwhelming goat, rabbit and curry smells that ran for several blocks. The rabbit was for the Claypot Chicken, of course - but naturally, it was all marked "chicken" in big barrels, and nobody even dared to mouth the word "rabbit" near the kitchen. The Raj truck drivers blocked all the local streets with badly-parked trucks, while they all traipsed in and placed their orders. But it wasn't long before an officious-looking gent in a uniform and peaked cap, asked............

And there is a major difference between the ordinary fibreglass of the everyday kit build aircraft and the certified composite materials. Even the interior, non-load-bearing plastics inside the cabins of commercial aircraft must undergo extensive testing in relation to burn rate, heat release, smoke, and toxicity, under FAA rules. Plus, they must also meet durability tests as regards wear and tear.

It's a composite Airbus A350. Interestingly, all on board the Airbus survived - the fire only took hold slowly (due to design) and this enabled full evacuation. 2024 Haneda Airport runway collision - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

It's Otto the Bumblebee!!

I would have to say the commercial system has developed the licencing system it has over many decades, and many training upgrades, after crashes caused by inadequate training or knowledge. The transfer of knowledge via instructors is much more comprehensive than just learning from books and studying technical manuals. An instructor is watching for you making dangerous mistakes, doing character assessment to pick up on your weaknesses, and to try and strengthen those weaknesses. Plus, they will hand out tips that will not be in books or manuals. Finally, the flight tests to award you an ATPL is to judge how capable you are, and if you can make the grade on every aspect of flying commercially - all done by senior peers. Remember that flight crew have huge responsibilities besides just flying the aircraft, from the control of errant pax, right through to handling emergencies in a professional and capable manner. And the position of a qualified RPT captain is a position that is highly regarded, and brings with it great respect, and elevated social status. To try and make out you have an ATPL when you haven't, is treated as a serious criminal offence.

Brendan, Skippy is showing his age. "Fagend of a conversation" means the end of a conversation, mainly when the conversation is running out of topic, and has become unimportant. It probably came from the time when people had a discussion over a work break smoke session, and the conversation ended when the cigarette was finished, and everyone had to go back to work. Nothing to to do with the other "fags" (homos).