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The heaviest CF6-80 engine is listed at 4472kgs, and the lightest at just over 4000kgs. I can't see 3 tonnes in that cradle, maybe a tonne, or 1.5T maximum.

Being military, the net weight of the empty cradle would be clearly marked on it, as well as gross weight with engine fitted in cradle.

Maximum diameter of CF6-80EI is 106 to 114 inches - that's 2.7M - 2.9M diameter - so yes, definitely overwidth.

Biggest single reason for loads lost from truck? Simple - screaming around corners too fast.

There's too many drivers with a lack of ability to judge the right speed for the corner - and they're always in too much of a hurry.

1. Arrange to move $10M jet engine.

2. Organise the cheapest haulier at $100.

3. Watch haulier secure engine with a couple of $15 ratchet straps.

4. See haulier speed through shortcut roads, to avoid $10 toll road fee.

5. Pictures of jet engine spread over the road after it falls off truck - PRICELESS!

The PF had both MLG on the ground initially - why didn't he put the nose down, and complete the touchdown? Because he'd touched down too far down the runway?

Ah-ha! Found the accident report where the couple were involved in some .. ahem .. "activities not related to the conduct of the flight" LOL

ASN Aircraft accident 23-DEC-1991 Piper PA-34-200T N47506

Totally different aircraft (Lancair) - but this local "unlatched canopy" takeoff ended with a pilot fatality.

Investigation: AO-2013-158 - Canopy-related landing accident involving Lancair Legacy, VH-ALP, Geraldton Airport, WA on 18 September 2013

There's a section in the above listing numerous other unlatched canopy disasters and narrow escapes from disasters. Quite a number of the escapes were from recognising the canopy was unlatched and aborting the take-off.

Surely a simple "unlatched canopy" warning light and switch, would have solved the majority of the episodes?

ben87r - No, it was definitely in the U.S. Might take me some time to find the report again.

Just to show that mile-high antics have been with us since nearly the start of aviation - here's a story that will make you chuckle ...

About MHC: Founding Member

Someone said the pilot was 67.Now before you all jump on me for being ageist, I'm not saying he's not capable of joining the mile high club (although I'm not sure how the logistics work in an RV9), just that he's old enough to know better...

I wonder if the couple had clothes on when they crashed? Perhaps someone was getting a little frisky and accidentally switched the mags off?

I remember a crash in the U.S. where they found the couple naked in the wreckage - and the investigators concluded, that a bit of nookie probably took the drivers attention off the job, resulting in the crash!

They couldn't find anything wrong with the aircrafts controls, or control surfaces, or fuel supply, and the engine was still producing power when it spiralled in.

I feel guilty now for buying all those Tattslotto and Tatts tickets when I was in Melbourne ! ! !

Geez, must be some great neighbourhood if you can't leave a car for 5 mins, without some hood knocking it off!

If you set up a bomb like that here, I could pretty well guarantee a SWAT team would descend on it faster than any hood - and they'd blow it up - and you'd be up on terrorism charges!

Phil - The RFDS relies a lot on donations, as well as State & Federal funding. The best donors are the people who have had their lives saved by the RFDS! If it ever happens to you, don't forget to give them a donation.

In Western Australia, the State lottery is owned and run by the State Govt - unlike the Eastern States, where a listed company called Tatts, runs all the State Lotteries.

Profits from the Eastern States lotteries go to fat, rich shareholders of Tatts. Profits from the W. A. lotteries are spread amongst community groups - and the RFDS is a big beneficiary of LotteryWest grants - to the tune of multiple millions.

Lotterywest grant funds new RFDS hangar — Lotterywest

I only buy Lotto tickets because I know the profits go to community groups and the likes of the RFDS. I detest buying Eastern States lottery tickets, knowing the profits only go to people who don't need any more money, anyway.

The RFDS is the lifeline of the Outback, they save many cattle stockmen from dying from serious injuries, they pick up people critically injured in car and truck smashes and rollovers, on Outback roads.

They pick up injured miners from remote minesites. They provide a myriad of mobile health services for people in remote locations and communities.

They often land on the road to pick up the injured from vehicle accidents. They fly by the skin of their teeth with seats-of-the-pants flying, often into unlit station airstrips at night. Here's a recent example.

RFDS use flaming toilet rolls to light up remote airstrip

The amazing part is - the RFDS has been doing this, and more, since 1928!

History of the RFDS Sections | Royal Flying Doctor Service

The well done is of course only if the engine failure was not caused by air in the tanks

It was a local lawyer driving it. I'm waiting for the jokes to start coming now. (P.S. - I beat ya all, I posted this in Aviation news only 3 hrs after it happened, late on Sunday afternoon).

I reckon he's in the market for a new Vans - that one won't buff out, that's for sure.

Robbo, you could've at least had a shave, and smiled for the camera.

Were many of those huge numbers of prangs in the U.S. preceded by, "Hey guys! Just hold my beer, and watch this!" ?

There are posts, and there are posts.

1. Numbers of users post humour, and numbers of users post valuable instructive information. You can't compare them directly, but you need both for forum balance.

2. No-one on a forum is required to post a CV, outlining their training levels, qualifications and skill sets. This makes it a little more difficult to sort the empty vessels just making sounds, from the intelligentsia providing good value information.

3. Vast amounts of postings on forums is personal opinion - with which, others may agree, or may disagree. There are many subjects that are not cut-and-dried - and opinions, along with your mileage, may vary substantially.

4. There are many technically relatively unqualified people, who have very valid opinions and approaches and advice. They often have a lifetime of wisdom and extensive experience behind them, and their opinions are worth reading.

5. Awarding "more and more senior forum positions" based on the number of postings, is not something really worth pursuing, IMO - because of all of the above. It can lead to jealousies and pettiness in forum behaviour.

6. There already is a message count and a "likes" count, to give one a personal opinion of a poster. That opinion could vary widely between individuals.

I don't believe issuing personal rankings, according to the number of posts, adds any value to this forum.

Just my .02c worth, feel free to disagree. I have a thick skin after having been a multiple forum poster for over 17 years.

A number of those forums dissolved into backbiting, recriminations, and abusive behaviour. I usually left when that happened. It takes good moderation to make a good forum, not issuing ranking for posters.

Plenty of room for a production line there, Bex

Are you planning to have cut and welded bends in the roll bar final design, or will the final product have superior pressed bends? The latter would look better and be cheaper to produce, I would imagine.

I'm personally not sure that the bar from the centre of the roll bar to the footwell area is all that necessary. What are you planning for the canopy, a simple bubble design?

Looks good, otherwise.

Don't know why but I have a bad feeling, this will cause problems.

Add about 5 more RFDS emergency strips across the Long Paddock in W.A. to that. Two are sealed to extra width and specifically marked, the others are just set up for emergency landings, and not specifically widened.

Main Roads WA has extensive information on one webpage with regard to all the requirements for setting up an emergency strip on a highway.

RFDS Emergency Landing Strip, Eyre Highway, between Mundrabilla and Madura Pass, Western Australia - Airports on Waymarking.com

https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/BuildingRoads/StandardsTechnical/RoadandTrafficEngineering/GuidetoRoadDesign/Pages/Emergency_Landing_Strips.aspx

In other breaking news, a Mirage touches down on an expressway!! ......

Wouldn't even make a dent in the loose change in his pocket. It's the same with Lamborghini and Ferrari mega-millionaire drivers, they just scoff at $1000 traffic offence fines.

They're all more concerned about the impact of the fine or charges, on their image and business standing.

Could have been an entirely different outcome if the wash blew over something with substantial weight in it, and it landed on someone. Who recalls the chopper/sign incident at Eastern Creek?

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Stick with the current setup, it works just fine, and it's not like it has a glaring need for change.

I had the experience about 50 years ago when out spotlight shooting of seeing cars that appeared to be driving backward. Tail lights leading, headlights behind. It must have been an optical illusion but to this day I don't know how it happened.

I heard a story years ago, that in the U.S. they had a number of accidents where colour blind drivers couldn't tell whether a tank Fairlane or Galaxie was coming or going, because the colour-blind drivers couldn't distinguish between the Ford taillights and headlights.

So what's the story behind it being moved by road, anyway? Can't see any markings on it, is it an incognito Mirage?