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......promptly offered Turbo $50,000 for his Kangaroo dog with the false teeth, and Turbo agreed to sell it to him on the spot. The money changed hands and Turbo was gone in seconds, like a greyhound after it spotted a lure. 

Bull was quite pleased with his purchase - but as he went to pat the 'roo dog, the false teeth fell out, and the awful realisation struck, that he'd been had - and a big slice of his gold nugget find was now irretrievably gone.

Bull was stunned, he couldn't believe he'd been conned so easily, he was as sharp as any other Taswegian, after living there for 2 years. He should've seen the teeth didn't quite match the Tassie Tiger teeth, and the jaw wasn't as big as it should've been.

He sat down on his front steps in a fit of gloom, and pondered what he could do. Kangaroo dogs were worth nothing in Tasmania, there wasn't enough room for them to reach top speed. And the 'roos were in much lower numbers than the mainland, too, with only the odd Forester kangaroo to be seen.

Suddenly, an idea came to him. If that bloke Bruce could make a 'roo dog look like something it wasn't, then he might be able to do the same, by........

Welcome RonKTom - As this forum is based in Australia, I'd suggest the best advice to you is to contact COPA. The COPA Guide to Private Aerodromes is in the first link below.

This is only a general guide, you really need to consult with your local Govt authority, which I presume would be your municipal Govt., which would usually set the rules and regulations and conditions for private airstrips.

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/43816024/copa-guide-to-private-aerodromes-canadian-owners-and-pilots-

https://copanational.org/en/aviation-guides/

.....there were serious concerns over whether the contract specified the Abrohhos Islands, the Abrohols Islands, the Abrokos Islands, or the Abrolhos Islands, as the spelling varied from page to page, and paragraph to paragraph.

Finally, it was determined that it was probably the little-known AboBros Islands, which of course, were fully owned under Native Title by the local Munjari Tribe - and who weren't included as a party to the contract, making things rather awkward for Cappy - particularly when local crab meat was regarded as a delicacy, and outsiders were lucky to even get a bite, when any were caught.

However, CC&T had managed to avoid this bad turn of events by ensuring the Munjari tribe were sent the wrong date for the trial, thus ensuring it was won by default. Cappy was quite pleased at the outcome - but the costs to win were high, and he had to try and find a way to recoup them. Finally, he figured out that............

....men - who ultimately failed to realise that Dirk was as unquestionably queer as a 3-dollar note. But Turbo was deeply offended by his so-called "mate" insinuating that he was somewhat "poofy", and their relationship was strained, until Cappy apologised for insinuating Turbo was more DC than AC (NTTMOC).

However, there was still the major inquiry into the DDV product preparation problems to be dealt with. The claims that he'd infringed the Food Act 1984 (VIC). The photos of the unsavoury-looking product preparations areas that made the industry inspectors recoil in horror. I mean to say, copper tubs for product preparation, in 2021?

But Turbo had engaged the cleverest lawyers in Australia to defend the charges. It just happened to be coincidental that the legal eagles were based in Wagga, and it was unfortunate the legal company name was "Cook, Crook and Took". But that was nothing compared to their record, which was.......

.......then, as sales slowed, OT had to think up a suitable response to kill off the threat from Turbines competing product. What better way to do that, than emphasise that rabbits were not an endangered species, as were the ingredients in the DDV product.

The marketing push of TIHRCCTM changed to subtle suggestions that if you used the Turbine DDV product, you'd just ensured the final extermination of those endangered species.

The ads worked and the Turbine Industries DDV product started to disappear from the supermarket shelves as Coles and Woolworths marketing AI picked up that they were backing a loser. Thousands of bottles of DDV started appearing in "clearance" trolleys at giveaway prices, as the supermarkets threw it out for cents in the dollar.

Turbo was starting to get desperate. He couldn't see his product fail - nothing he had ever touched, hadn't been a major winner - yet here was a Johnny-come-lately from the West taking all his sales and profits, with a product that was hard to beat. He needed to consult with.......

.....Australia, since Clive Palmer started up Mineralogy. OT - despite his mining, trucking and farming background - had decided the aim of Trackbine Industries was to get in on the huge money to be made from the COVID-19 cures, that didn't involve vaccination.

He'd seen how popular the Chinese herbal medicines had become, since the percentage of the Asian population in Australia had soared, ever since they found out Kevin Rudd spoke Mandarin, and they thought it was Australia's official second language.

OT's plan was for Trackbine Industries (registered in the Netherlands for corporate and tax purposes, of course) to produce a COVID-19 cure that contained ground-up portions of the important parts of buck rabbits - such as rabbit penis - from rabbits that had survived myxomatosis, calicivirus, and shooting by CT9000.

These rabbits chosen, had also avoided becoming roadkill (and therefore, ending up on the menu of the RoadKill Cafe) via the huge number of 4WD's and the fast interstate highway trucks that ran through DG all hours of the day and night. 

As a result, they were the healthiest and most cunning surviviors of anything that was designed to kill them - and they had also been found to be totally immune to COVID-19. A few local bushes that the rabbits favoured, were also found, that appeared to offer added flavour for a herbal tea.

The end result was Trackbine Industries Herbal Rabbit COVID-19 Cure Tea Mix (TIHRCCTM). As soon as the Asians discovered it, sales went ballistic. When the UAP discovered it, and Clive and Craig threw their combined hefty weights behind it, sales went through the roof!

The factories were unable to keep up, and jars of TIHRCCTM became as highly sought after, and as rare as, new 2021 Landcruisers.

OT decided he would have to open more factories in China, so accordingly, he went to.........

.....there'd be no way of keeping anything secret from the baying mobs. Bull had to think fast. It was time to use the pollies excuse - "It didn't happen under my watch, it was the previous incumbent".

Meanwhile, the Police, the RSPCA, numerous publicity-seeking politicians, PETA activists, Tash Peterson, and every other animal activist from the Animal Justice Party on down, had gathered at the front gate of bulls rabbit farm. The only thing keeping them out was the solid iron gates, and the Assa Abloy padlock, which bull had specially selected for the job, knowing full well, this day might come.

But the frightening thing to bull was the sheer numbers of people wanting in to his rabbit farm, to check out what was really happening there. Suddenly, there was a huge commotion as Tash Peterson stripped right off.

Police attention was diverted from the rabbit farm investigation, to the more interesting job of arresting a nude Tash Peterson. But Peterson wasn't hanging around to be arrested.

She threw her placard onto the fence, and used it as a ramp to scale it, which she did with amazing alacrity, and then she was off............

The Buzz cafe at Cullen Bay Marina in Darwin has a one-way window in front of the urinal. You're looking straight out into the cafe! When the waitress walks past and looks straight at you, it's enough to stop you in mid-stream!

https://www.dangermouse.net/travel/northernterritory2008/day18.html  (see the third set of photos)

......I'd slather an additional two quarts of high-fructose corn-syrup-based gravy on the loins, to mellow the strong Eucalyptus flavour. And it needs some grits to add crunchiness to the meal, and to make Americans feel right at home!"

"But then we would lose the true Australian RoadKill Grill flavour!", said bull, alarmed that any attempt to modify his recipes would end up in reduced sales - just like KFC and Hungry Jacks when they tried menu variations and people stayed away in droves.

"I've got an idea that encourage more people into your RoadKill cafes", said OT. "You need to add playgrounds to your cafe, where the kids can play video games and pretend to drive a Kenworth over a 'roo, complete with fur and splatter. Kids love those great realistic details!"

But trouble was looming as PETA and Tash Peterson showed up in force at the DG RoadKill cafe. Not only was Tash Peterson wearing next to nothing again, there were PETA members who looked like Rebel Wilson after a 3-week binge at the cakes counter at the DG bakery, and this was enough to send the patrons fleeing.............

130mm thickness of 32Mpa concrete, on a compacted, well-bound subgrade will be quite adequate to support a King Air 350.  You need to also consider surface finish, coatings, and drainage for the hangar - particularly in the case of liquid spills.

All you ever wanted to know, and more, is in the link below ....

https://www.ccaa.com.au/imis_prod/documents/INDUSTRY_GUIDE_T48_Guide_to_Industrial_Floors_and_Pavements_Design_Construction_and_Specification.pdf

.....but bull didn't want to be found guilty of direct copyright contravention of the RoadKill Cafe byline, and the resultant lawsuits that would spring from using an exact copy of the wording - so bull modified the ditty to, 
"From your grill to ours, within hours!".

This led to dismay amongst the gathering of Philadelphia lawyers employed by the RoadKill Cafe, and a re-examination of coyright laws to see where else bull could be nailed. Finally, they found a small section, which outlawed.........

NEW FLASH!! - For all NES Readers! It has been noted that Darraweit Guim has now been catapulted into the big league, aviation-wise - with no less than THREE airstrips!

Shortly, the DG Mayor, CT9000, will be applying to have them all listed as International Airports, and with the planned major Quarantine Facility also planned for DG, this will thrust DG onto the World Stage, as a vital link in Australias contact with the outside world!

The DG mayor is now looking for interested parties to submit major development proposals for............

It's a piece of cake to do that, no wind gusts inside a tunnel, and a straight white line to follow!

Now, if they wanted to make it exciting, cover up the white line, and pump a few gusts of air into the tunnel at various points along its length!

The greatest failing of the current Federal Liberal Govt, and one which generates the most anger amongst all the people I deal with and talk to, is the way the Govt handed out mega-millions to businesses in the form of Jobkeeper, with no requirement to submit any applications showing real need for the funding - and whereby a very large proportion of this money was totally unwarranted, and it went straight to senior executives and shareholders pockets, in the form of sharply increased salaries and profits.

A few businesses did the right thing and returned the Jobkeeper funding when it was very obvious it wasn't needed - a few more were pressured to return it - but a lot who didn't need it, refused outright to return it.

Meantimes, every cent that goes to individuals in dire need, is scrutinised, penny-pinched, asset-tested, and individuals are required to prove they're virtually bankrupt before the Govt releases a few miserable dollars to them for pure survival purposes. And God help anyone who gets overpaid from taxpayers funds, as an individual.

Of the all reasons people will vote this Federal Govt out at the next election, this Jobkeeper unfairness will be at the front of many peoples minds, as they put pen to ballot paper.

I love the note of the Nakajima Sakae radial in the Zero, they sound like they mean business. I understand there's only one surviving operational Nakajima Sakae engine.

......a group of protestors holding up placards and balloons and chanting, "NO RECREATIONAL AIRCRAFT NOISE IN DARRAWEIT GUIM". Bull was stunned, disoriented and shaken.

This couldn't be Hell, it was too green. Yet it was full of Labor voters and protest groups, so it must be Hell. But then again, they were chanting about Darraweit Guim, so he must still be alive, and on Earth.

He took off his helmet as all the dust drifted away, and it was only then he realised that he was sitting amongst a pile of fabric and twisted tubes, and the a*** was gone out of his best pair of shorts. He gasped and.........

The CDC is an authority with impeccable information. They are in charge of Americas disease control.  The first link below is an up-to-date CDC report on the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines on persons aged 65-74.

We have only one thing to be concerned about - the vaccines appear to lose a degree of effectiveness over a period of several months post-vaccination - which may mean another booster shot will be needed.

But even despite that falling-away of effectiveness, the vaccine is still quite effective, and it will still protect you far better than any other anti-vaxx, non-scientific, BS approach - such as Ivermectin, et al.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e3.htm

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/covid-19-vaccines-work-but-their-efficacy-fades-st

.......Tom Cruise and Arnie combined. But the reputation of bull's that really counted, was his reputation amongst the ladies. They would line up whenever the Scout appeared for a landing, like a flock of pigeons when they spotted a bag of grain being spilt.

As soon as bull landed, they would be throwing themselves at him, clawing at his clothes, like teenagers throwing themselves at rock stars at a rock concert.

Then came that terrible day when one excited young lady threw her panties in the air, as bull made a low pass to check out the airfield conditions - and the panties wrapped themselves around his face.

What made it worse was, the girl wasn't exactly your "slim, model type" - she came from good farming stock, and she was built like a rugby fullback - and she wore "plus size" panties - size 18, to be precise - and these extra-large panties wrapped around bulls face like a towel, blinding him almost completely.

Luckily, they were sheer material, so he did end up with about 5% vision still, as he struggled to remove them from his face, and keep control of the Scout at the same time.

He finally got the panties free enough to see the sight of..........

The major thing you have to remember is that the largest percentage of politicians have little by way of leadership ability, because they've never had to put in a proper job application presenting their CV and management qualifications, to any person with the requisite skills and who is qualified to lead the nation.

They only have to "ring around to get the numbers for support", within their own political party, or plaster their face on 10,000 posters and billboards, in the hope the general public will vote them in, because they present an "honest face".

A mate always reckoned the people who should be running the country are too busy running their own successful businesses - and politicians couldn't run a sweets and icecream shop outside a girls school without sending it bankrupt.

Most have little knowledge of operating in the real world and wouldn't recognise leadership and management skills, even if they hit them in the face.

The likes of Dan the Man has never had a real job, he went from Uni straight into the political system. Little wonder he's bumbled from one poor decision to another.

....was the case in bull's neck of the woods, where the only thing you had to worry about on liftoff, was not the wind direction, but the speed of the wind.

You only have to worry about if it's just a regular 40 kts, or whether it's a Force 9 gale, which happens every 3rd day, and which means not only the aircraft have to be tied down, the hangar roof has to be tied down as well.

But these small irritations are nothing to the intrepid Scout flyers of Tasmania, who simply regard gale-force winds as a "liftoff assistance device".

They normally utilise large open paddocks (of which, there are 11 in Tasmania) so they can point the Scout into the gale, untie it, and take off like a JATO-assisted C130, achieving speeds of..........

Sorry to hear about your house and property vandalisation, Kasper.

If it was 11 yr olds as perpetrators, there's some future serious criminals in breeding next door - unless there's some major intervention in their upbringing, right now.

I initially misread Spaceys post at first glance as, "the idiots that let that First Convict ship into NSW!"  Perhaps that's what Spacey really meant? 

.....aims to make a 39HP Ronaldson Tippett work as an aircraft power plant. (Note - bull made just a slight error on the order form, he thought he was ordering a 9HP, but due to his poor eyesight, he ordered a 39HP instead). He set about lightening the Ronaldson Tippett with a 230mm angle grinder, a mill bastard file, and a set of good Chinese vernier calipers.

Meantimes, OT was pondering over Turbos unusual statement ... 

"The possums had nested in it (the Scout) and left a big brown stain, and the baric had started to rot ...."

OT was puzzled as how the Board of Airline Representatives of Cyprus (BARIC) had become involved in bulls Scout. OT has to agree, the BARIC is rotting from the inside out, and Larnaca airport is a basket case, but it's a long way from Tassie to Larnaca, and if bull is attempting that length of flight, he'll need.......

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The Govt has not worked out they cannot control everyone AND IF I owned a business that was going down the drain, could not pay for my house, struggled to buy food etc, because of COVID restrictions. I would break EVERY rule in the book for my family….… I spoke to a guy selling a plane yesterday as a result of loss of income due to Covid restrictions.  I felt very sad for him, even upset……because he has to sell his source of enjoyment in this life……something he has worked for, for years no doubt.

Just let me know what you would do, faced with the same circumstances?

There's only two things in this life that are certain - death and taxes. If you're in business, you face permanent income and asset-value risks - via natural disasters, other businesses failing and causing you loss, fraud, and general bastardry from others you deal with.

I've faced the same circumstances as many business people are facing now - and it wasn't COVID-19 related. Our family lost our major long-term business, and I lost all my assets, via an unwarranted bank foreclosure, in which we owed no arrears whatsoever.

But the bank we had all our business with, sent us to a meeting with a "Credit Control Manager", who advised us in a 20 min meeting, that he'd "done some forward computer projections, that showed our business would owe his bank, substantial amounts of money in 12 mths time, that he would not be able to recover".

This, despite the fact we had been in that business for over 30 years, and had built that business into a $10M business with 65 employees - and the fact that we had no record whatsoever of not paying every debt in full, that we had ever incurred. I never knew foreclosures could be carried out on "future computer projections", until that time.

Disregarding every thing we said, this CCM immediately demanded the (fully secured) $1M we owed to his bank, was to be repaid within 48 hrs, as "he had lost confidence in us, as his banks customers".

The $1M was fully secured with $1.6M in excellent quality properties, so they stood to lose nothing. They then modified their repayment order from "48 hrs", to "a few weeks". But the full repayment order stayed in place.

We went to 19 other financial institutions, and every single one of them refused to take our business on, as they all repeated the same story - "You're with one of the Big Four banks. If they don't want you as a customer, there must be something bad about your financial position, you're not telling us."

The end result was we struggled along for another 6 mths, conducting fire sales as we went, to get enough cash to repay the banks demands. At the end of the 6 mths, we ended up with absolutely nothing by way of business or assets, because of those bank-induced fire sales. But we had paid everyone out in full.

I walked out of the remnants of the business at age 46, after 30 years of gut-busting work, with just the shirt on my back, and had to go begging for employment with others.

I have never ever recovered from that piece of bank bastardry, and I can assure you I am not alone, plenty of people in business have endured similar experiences, and lost everything due to circumstances totally beyond their control.

You just have to roll with the punches, and do the best with the lemons that life hands you. An old Auntie had a good saying - "as you age, you either get bitter, or you get better". Getting bitter achieves nothing, and only shortens your lifespan.

The system is not broken, if people simply take notice of COVID-19 movement restrictions and regulations, and stop spreading the virus!!