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Ahhh, yes. A simple panel damage problem. Remove object that caused panel damage, and replace panel. Fixed.

....more sensitive parts of the body, such as......

It's all speculation based on one call to Seven News. The police officer at the scene declined to speculate on the cause, and no other official mouthpiece is saying anything about the cause of the crash.

The precise answer to the reason for the crash will have to wait until the official report or investigation is carried out.

Go for it, OME! Produce your best design, and upstage Bex! I've often thought along the same lines. But for RA aircraft, the improved cabin design must also stay cheap and affordable.

I have also often wondered why RA aircraft designers haven't reverted to the "fuselage in halves" design of the Mosquito, utilising modern lightweight materials, rather than wood or plywood.

I never ceased to be amazed at the stupidity of a lot of Americans, when it comes to manufacturing, and setting off, home-made explosive devices. Attaching them to a light aircraft ranks pretty high amongst the stupidest of ideas.

....Doctoring ability, as he'd doctored up many an Evinrude outboard, as well as the Japanese brands - plus quite a number of AUF aircraft, as well.

"But that vast amount of doctoring is the exact reason why there's so few AUF aircraft (avref) left flying!", exclaimed OT.

"You've been personally responsible for taking more aircraft out of the sky, than CASA and RA-Aus could ever do, in 150 years!", he added.

"In fact", OT went on, "There's rumbles of a class action against your operations, based on malpractice, malfeasance, maladjustment and just general malevolence!

"Hear! Hear!", cried Nobu, as he walked in on Fred and Turbo. "Ever since he tlied to tune my Zelo (avref), she luns like a hairly goat!. He claimed he was a Nakajima Sakae tuning expert, but he wouldn't know a Nakajima Sakae flom a Sushi Bento Box! The man is a charlatan, and he needs to be exposed for.......

....this sounds just like a classic Dr Turbo spin event! He's been Doctoring stuff for ages before he got that shonky online Doctorate, and now that he's got it attached to his name, to give him some official status, he's getting worse at Doctoring things!"

This passenger pod idea is straight out of the quack Doctors handbook! It's on a par with cyanide-based, raspy throat cures, arsenic blood improvers, laudanum nerve-calming products, Donald Trump COVID-19 cures, and snake oil liniment!"

"That's not true!", gasped Turbo. "I worked hard to get that Doctorate! It entitles me to Doctor as much as I like! - provided I don't enter any medical field! This pod is a product straight out of the 22nd Century! It'll only be weeks before CASA gives it the nod, and authorises it under 'Approved Under-Fuselage Attachments', and I reckon even Boeing will be.......

.....the first customers of the pods were human guinea pigs, pure and simple. "But I've never done any customer research!", said Dr Turbo. "They either survive or die, what could be simpler?"

"Customer research is such an over-rated industry - and besides, it costs too much, so we can't afford to do it!", he added. "The clients won't pay the extra, so they can get pods cheaper!"

"And besides" he went on, "It appears some aviators (avref) are planning to put their M'sIL in them, so it's a win-win situation all round! The MIL can't be heard, and the pilot (avref) gets to pilot freely, with no MIL interference, or back-seat piloting!"

"But", said Cappy with a furrowed brow, "These things sound like a disaster waiting to happen!"

"Only if you fail to tie up the MIL, and fail to lock the pod", said Dr Turbo airily. "Besides", he went on, "CASA are likely to announce.......

I've kept out of this fight up until now, but I feel the need to correct the idea that weight and mass always should be the same.

They're not, and the reason is; "weight and mass are different physical quantities, although they are closely related" ...

https://cnx.org/contents/aAA3IrFE@4/Mass-and-Weight

AFAIC, weight is the laymans everyday term, mass is the specific scientific term, which takes into account a lot more factors than just what the everyday person wants to know, when they throw something on a set of scales.

........mask enforcers division of CASA, who have unlimited powers to ground pilots who refuse to wear masks and who ignore social distancing in the closely-confined quarters of a cockpit.

"We here in CASA all know that pilots and co-pilots and right-seat pax are blatantly ignoring distancing rules in cockpits, as well as ignoring mask requirements - so we have formed this new arm of CASA to deal with the problem", said the CASA spokesperson.

"It behoves all of us to promote aviation safety constantly, and nothing is more unsafe to the health of pilots and co-pilots and pax, to be ignoring distancing and masking requirements inside aeroplanes", the spokesperson went on. "The last thing we want is for pilots to catch COVID-19 inside a cockpit and end up unable to land due to regular coughing and sneezing fits. The ramifications are just too terrible to contemplate".

"Further to that end, we will be conducting regular random COVID-19 safety audits to ensure that all pilots. co-pilots and pax are.........

It's very fortunate that it ran into a hangar door, and not a brick wall, or a structural steel hangar component.

Ouch! I bet that made a nice big BANG! Chock man was certainly behind the 8-ball there, maybe someone misplaced them, and he had to go looking for them?

Looks like the nose bore the brunt of the hit, hopefully it won't be out action for too long.

ABC news item ...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-31/100-year-anniversary-royal-australian-air-force-marked-flyover/100040006

If you looked, you'll see the original poster is located in the USA. CASA has no power in the USA, his aviation authority is the FAA.

The skydiving smoke grenade that I posted the link to, is described as "a 'Cool-burning' Non-Pyrotechnic" grenade.

I would hazard a guess that attaching a smoke grenade to a wing strut would require FAA approval. A better idea, I would suggest, is to utilise a skydiving smoke grenade, attached to piece of wood that your passenger can poke out of a window.

I'm not sure if you would be able to get the color you seek in a grenade (I'm guessing blue for a boy, pink for a girl). Discuss your needs with the supplier linked to, below.

https://sportsmoke.com/smoke-grenades/skydiving/sky-diver-smoke-grenade

Inflation obviously made the idea too expensive. Then again, someone higher up might have shot holes in the scheme.

Judging by the condition of those 3 blokes in white shirts, they haven't been involved in anything that even relates to exercise, in recent times. So I guess that means they're very senior desk pushers.

....thermometer into places we don't really want to know about. Regardless, Cappy has now revealed that Turbo was awarded an (obviously honorary) Doctorate from one of those online Universities that also specialise in supplying ready-made theses (and of course, with my top-grade, online Uni qualifications, I know that the plural of thesis, is theses).

However, it appears that Turbos constant demand to preface any address to him as "Doctor" is starting to grate - particularly when he does it in radio communications (loose avref).

"It's bad enough that he already has this Walter Mitty view of life - but when he constantly demands to be addressed as 'Doctor Turbo' over the airwaves, that it really starts to get up your nose", said one aggrieved ATC operative.

"Did I hear someone say 'Nose'?", said Turbo, popping his head around the corner. "Did you know I specialise in olfactory issues? - particularly relating to smells that........

There's 1/8" BSP and there's 1/8" NPT. Don't get them mixed up, or the leaks will be incessant. BSP is 28tpi, NPT is 27tpi. In addition, the thread form is totally different between BSP and NPT.

Equipment built or produced in Australia or the U.K. normally uses BSP threads. Equipment built or produced in the U.S., normally uses NPT threads.

That is not a hard-and-fast rule, because American manufacturers produce equipment of American design in U.K. factories, and this equipment nearly always uses NPT threads.

Plumbing is where BSP rules in Australia - unless you just happened to import something (such as a U.S. built, 5th wheel caravan) with American plumbing - and then it will use NPT threads in the plumbing!

https://www.valvesonline.com.au/references/threads/

Tapered pipe threads utilise sealant (PTFE thread tape or liquid pipe sealant) to ensure a leak-proof seal. The vast majority of water pipes and plumbing in Australia, use BSP taper thread.

Parallel pipe threads utilise an O-ring or gasket, to seal, via flat or angled mating surfaces on the coupled fittings, or the fitting and the housing it screws into.

The "TSO C76" marking appears to indicate it's a Curtis 1/8" NPT drain valve, listed at the bottom of the linked page, below.

https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/appages/curtisquickdv2.php

And here was me thinking Phil and Yampy had gone all Oriental, and wishing for "rotsa ruck". I often wonder how the Poms actually get to see the stars, as clear skies are a wondrous thing in Old Blighty.

I like the idea. One has to remember that in WW1 aviation was in its infancy, most people of that era had little experience of anything mechanical that was powered by an IC engine, so training had to be "see and do", or "watch and do".

Rick, are those figures the final bid prices, or the total sale prices, with buyers premium included? The BP adds a hefty amount to the bid price.

.....fact the Urquell Pilsener was unfiltered - and the contents of which, containing much "solid material", had formed unspeakable and unbelievable stains on both Loxy and the aircraft (avref).

"He's got the Pox!!", screamed out someone in the crowd - which made them pull back even more. "No, he's shXX himself!!" cried someone else - leading to another surge rearwards, in the assembled gathering.

"What in the dickens is going on?" said Loxy as he walked towards the crowd - and they backed off even faster. "I put on such a great flying (avref) show - and once I land, I get treated like I'm a COVID-19 carrier!?"

"Did you hear that??", cried one old bloke in the crowd, who was largely deaf, like all old blokes are. "He's got the COVID! - He's a carrier!! I heard him say it!"

At that, most of the crowd turned and ran, like rabbits sighting a hungry fox. They fell over each other, and trampled each other, in their haste to get away.

Meantimes, Loxy looked on in amazement, and wondered what he.........

....can, unfortunately, was still full when it had been installed. As result it starting pixxing out pixx onto some pixxed-off spectators, who immediately suspected Loxie was taking the pixx out of them, by pixxing on them.

The cries of outrage from the wet spectators reached a crescendo that even drowned out the buzz of the Rotax.

And as Loxie landed (avref), they surged forward - and in a massive miscalculation, whereby Loxie though they were rushing forward to greet and congratulate him - he jumped out of the cockpit (avref), straight into.......