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Tumut is located on the banks of the Tumut River in the foothills of the Snowy Mts. The airstrip is at 263M/863ft altitude, not exactly "high altitude".

I have never seen MS exhaust tubing thinner than 1.6mm. You can buy 1.2mm thickness exhaust tubing, but it's only available in 304 stainless. I guess Jabiru could have always put out a special order for 1.2mm tubing in MS. However, there is a rust and flake factor with MS tubing. As it ages, it becomes thinner simply due to rust and metal flaking off it.

......ought to avoid responsibilities by quoting medical problems. "I'm sorry. I can't do that, my carbuncle is playing up". This avoidance of responsibilities started with a very young Turbo telling his Mum he couldn't go to school that day, because he had a tummy ache. He found this stunt an excellent fall-back position, when all else failed to absolve him of his responsibilities. His latest heavy responsibility came when the police paid him a visit. "Good evening Sir", the plod said pleasantly. "At the behest of the Vietnamese police, we are investigating illegal Cat Farming operations, and we have some information, mostly gained by electronic means, that indicates you could be involved in such operations. Would you care to enlighten us further?" At that, Turbo clutched his stomach and said. "Oooohhhh!! I've got a........................

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I've watched the video multiple times, and my opinion is the pilot is a bit of a cowboy, and enjoys taking things to their limits. It's likely to backfire on him one day. These are the reasons why what he's doing is extremely dangerous, and stressing his machine severely. 1. Fast descents in helicopters vastly increase the mechanical loading on the transmission and rotors and mast. This is created by pulling up rapidly to arrest the descent. 2. Coming in fast in a complex, crowded environment such as city building tops, reduces the time available to spot hazards such as masts or cables. 3. Descending fast in a helicopter can cause what is called Vortex Rlng State. Essentially, the helicopter descends into its own rotor downwash, causing a far greater descent rate than expected. The rotor blades start to recirculate turbulent air, vastly reducing lift. 4. Landing fast over the tops of buildings is landing into extremely turbulent air, created by the wind blowing over and around tall buildings. There can be sudden changes in wind speeds, direction, and even downbursts, causing loss of control. 5. Fast descent, swooping approaches can lead to loss of tail rotor effectiveness, created by turbulent air, which comes from the rotor blade vortexes. Loss of tail rotor effectiveness is generally the factor that leads to a major loss of control. Helicopters are finely balanced, delicate machines, that suffer from pecularities that fixed wing aircraft don't suffer from. You drive them like a cowboy at your own risk. I would compare his actions with driving an ambulance at extremely high speed through heavy traffic. Sooner or later, the conditions arise that cause a disaster.

And at Turbo's agitated plea, JC himself showed up in a golden-sunlit cloud, to reassure him that all was well, and the Vietnamese police bust would only be seen as a small black mark on his lifes record, when he turned up at the Pearly Gates. At the mention of Pearly Gates, Turbo muttered, "Gates! Of course, I put Cappy in charge of Cat security, and this is what happens!!" At the mention of Cappys name of course, JC disappeared again in a puff of smokey cloud, because there was no way he wanted to hang around for ages, reading out Cappys despicable number of black marks on his Heavenly file. This left Turbo to ponder what line of response he could take, when the media, and then the police called (the media always beat the police to the offenders, of course), asking awkward questions about animal abuse. And then there would be the RSPCA, with their................

An unbelievable level of persistence is required to build your own aircraft. There are many aircraft kit builders who gave up half way through - or, advancing age beat them. It pays to examine your other committments in total, before starting a kit build - because it will demand a vast amount of your time, that may mean a very lengthy build period, just like Martys. But I do admire Martys persistence and dedication to see the project through. They are rare traits in this day and age of needing fast rewards.

Skippy's like a dog that's found a bone! There's no way he's letting go of that bone, now!! 😄

......sourcing the mentane very quickly turned into a problem. Every fuel supplier he asked, looked at Cappy askew. Some suggested he should look in the "rare gases" dept of the local University. Some even went so far as to send Cappy off to the Greases and Solid Lubricants Dept, and told him to ask if they could supply a tub of mentane. Of course, the Greases and Lubricants Dept obliged by giving Cappy a huge tub of.........

This is interesting. What does a plane-proof vest look like? Does it actually stop you from flying? 😄 😄

No, it's not apathy, it's just the poor old council employees at the sharp end, having to deal with a multitude of bureaucratic requirements, not having enough time or funding to deal with remits that are outside everyday council demands. As someone who has relatives working in council management/offices, I get stories every week of how disaffected ratepayers are always calling, wanting every single personal wish and demand met, when the employees already have their hands full, dealing with regular daily council demands. They have to regularly manage unexpected events that call on council reserves of manpower and resources, and when someone demands a service that is either just solely benefiting the enquirer, or a very small number of affected people, the request goes way back down the line, because daily requirements that affect thousands of people, must be met first.

Skippy, because you're dealing with bureaucracies, that's why - and local councils are the burgeoning repository of bureaucracy. Not to mention that councils have often "inherited" airstrips, and know little about aviation, and merely see the airstrip as another burden that costs them a lot in maintenance, but which yields very little by way of council income. Council employees rarely have time to expand on provision of information, apart from "core" council needs.

......poffertjes, red-light districts (Kalgoorlie was originally called New Amsterdam, until Paddy Hannan found gold, and renamed it), sailing ships, and generally world-leading marine manufacturing skills (OT swells with pride whenever he travels the world, and almost everywhere, sees fabulous huge ferries and mega-yachts with "Made in Western Australia" written on them). However, I digress. The West Australians are also known as pioneers in aviation, as witnessed by the little-known Kalgoorlie men who built Australias first aircraft, the Kalgoorlie Biplane in 1915. It's an unfortunate twist of fate that the Kalgoorlie Biplane failed to develop further, almost certainly due to a poorly designed and unreliable engine provided by Josiah Turbine Aviation Engines Inc. This engine was apparently designed in hurry, with the full intention of capturing a big slice of the booming aviation engine market at that time. It was reported in newspapers of the era, that the design blueprints were purloined from a manufacturer in Europe, in a clear case of industrial espionage. It was reported that huge profit potential was the primary driver of the engines entry to the market. Unfortunately for Josiah Turbine, some of the blueprints ended up being torn during the industrial thefts, and ended up with sections missing, which led to a whole lot of "guesstimates" as to what was supposed to be in that section of the blueprint. As a result, the engine, touted as being "an example of the finest cutting edge European design, substantially modified to meet Australian operating conditions" (just as Turbo would claim in later decades, with his truck modifications), turned into nothing more than the biggest disaster to ever enter aviation history, on a par with........

.......NZ shepherds are some of the greatest runners the world has ever seen. In fact, they developed their national sport, Rugby Union, by running down sheep and tackling them from behind. As a result of some mis-identication of sheep gender one day, a group of NZZ shepherds actually found the sheep had turned to face them - because it was a ram. Thus, the "scrum" came about in RU, because the shepherds decided to take on the headbutting ram, and it was 8 shepherds to one ram, all with heads down, and going head to head. Then the ram backed off for a charge (as rams do), and the shepherds in the scrum all fell over. Of course, some said they didn't fall over, they were actually looking for a ball, which was supposed to be around there somewhere, but.......

That FB Aviation "Buy Sell Swap Australia" group is a private group, you have to apply to join the group, before you can see the ad. Seems like a silly way to sell an aircraft. You sell things promptly by maximising exposure. If he really wants eyeballs looking at it, and people contacting him, he needs to advertise it on every site around - Gumtree, eBay, FB Marketplace, Plane Sales.

Garfly, that's possibly because Skippy feels like he's pushing that train uphill, all by himself! 😄

Aviation experts are speculating that as the B-52 failed to gain adequate altitude, and then carried out a sharp right turn of nearly 180°, before stalling and impacting terrain with a ROD calculated at 5056 ft/m, that there was a very high likelihood of a major control failure. Boeing has confirmed two of its employees were amongst the 8 fatalities.

......suddenly realised he'd be late for work at his job at the Cat farm, where Turbo had given him the position of Manager of Cat Escape Control and Security, his job being simply to ensure all the gates were shut, and all scratching posts were a decent distance from the fences, so the cats couldn't launch themselves from a scratching post, to the top of a perimeter fence, and thence to freedom. This position had become inevitable as Turbo had engineered for a substantially increased size in the cats, to increase profitability, and to meet the major demand for meat and fur, that couldn't be met by ordinary-sized house cats. Then came that fateful and dreadful day in Cappys life, when a kitten escaped and wrought havoc in the city, causing massive damage to infastructure and making people flee in terror, as the kitten rampaged through the city, bringing............

I have bad memories of a Tiger snake chasing me when I was about 8 yrs old. Our farm was Tiger snake Central, swamps everywhere.

The red wire is indeed the 12V signal wire that energises the starter solenoid windings, to pull the electromagnet in.

The fence appears to be relatively undamaged. Photos courtesy of CH 7 News.

.........the Gurrugurrang Tribe. Not many people know that Turbo can trace part of his family lineage to this Tribe, which once inhabited all the mountainous country in VicManistan. The mountain-climbing abilities of the Gurrugurrang were well-known, and it is this lineage that gave Turbo his love for the mountainous regions of Afghanistan, and his love of ambushing enemies. Add to that, the Gurrugurrang decorated themselves with many brightly colourful adornments, sourced from bird feathers, coloured stones, ochre, and resin from native plants. They were also known to use bottle caps for decoration, once the Europeans started leaving them lying around. This tendency to become human bower birds (and the Gurrugurrang decorated themselves to attact females), has shown up in Turbos almost constant desire to decorate himself with female-attracting devices, such as Corvettes, aircraft, and........

Any carpet snake I've ever encountered has been the nastiest piece of work out, rearing up, and striking out at me! I give all snakes a wide berth!

There was a previous discussion around this same problem. The OP found a repairer in Adelaide. https://www.aircraftpilots.com/forums/topic/38510-vdo-rev-counter-hour-meter/#comment-531538

.....would lead to serious repercussions, such as knee-capping, and even daylight executions in public cafes of some of our more colourful "local businessmen" figures. What would be even worse, the housewives of Moorabbistan would end up on TV, complaing that their Rinso didn't wash as white as the previous ads stated it would, and that their washing was being used as the "before" photos, in the "before" and "after" photos in the TV advertising. The loudest complainant was Mabel from Frankston, who said...........