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Gee, getting an $894M investment in the company from Toyota, is some record achievement!

Kit foxtails? As in what we used to hang off car radio aerials? 😄

.....daily operations and finance controls of the First Temple of Jerusalem - thus showing that our family ancestors could even show the Jews a thing or two, about handling big incomes. Of course, what is not well known is that OT's ancestor, Josiah Track, had a major financial investor to compete with, one Jeremiah Cook, who controlled all the accommodation in the Levant. Yes, Dear NES readers, that Jeremiah Cook just happened to be one of Cappys ancestors, and it's not well reported that accommodation was particularly tight, right about the time a huge star appeared over Jerusalem, and because of this, people couldn't even find a room in a Cook Motel to have a baby (or even create one). This fact was solely due to the ruthless control over every Levant motel by said Jeremiah Cook, who had wangled the position of Comptroller of Motels in the Levant. This enabled Jeremiah to scuttle plans for any proposed motels that competed with the Cook motel chain, and thereby led to the acute shortage of accommodation in the Levant. Shortly after JC started going to school, and not long after he learnt the basics of monopolies and "big money" control, he set about.........

Woo-Hoo!! .... 250kts speed limit, and any number and any type of engines!! Here comes the twin-jet ultralights that will leave those pathetic, crawling, Rotax-powered kitbuilders in their wake! 😄

.....OT, with his stunning food displays from his several food vans. "Well, I never knew you were a major mobile food retailer!", exclaimed Cappy as he sampled some of OT's delicious Boulangerie food van offerings. "Oh, it all started about 2000 years ago, when my great-great-great-great-great-great-great uncle, Josiah Track, saw this bloke in the Levant feeding 5000 people with five loaves of bread, and a couple of fish!" "Josiah immediately thought up the idea of the first fish burger van in the Levant, and from there, our family has never looked back! Besides, it's so much easier to stretch the limited fish supplies out, when you have a van with an enclosed kitchen, rather than standing around in a carpenters outfit, just handing the food out, without even ensuring you get paid for it!" "Since I took over the food van operations, the Boulangerie Van has been a massive hit, so much so, that..........

It just looks like a Cessna clone! Surely Van's could've done more to differentiate their design?

They're simply standard automotive valve springs, aren't they? If they're OEM, you'd shudder at how they're manufactured, and how little QC goes into them. The last engine I rebuilt, I used valve springs from SBI (S.B. International), supplied by NASON - and SBI products are aftermarket, high performance springs, made in the U.S. And the engine I rebuilt wasn't a high performance race engine, or an aero engine, it was just a regular industrial diesel engine. I fully expect the SBI springs to perform better than OEM springs. https://www.sbintl.com/Product/DetailsENG?productId=20

........set about getting the contracts for all 5 drawbridges needed. However, when he tried to bribe the Knights Templar representative in DG - who just happened to be, one CT9000 - he found he was up against one tough gent - in fact, he was one tough, well-armed, gent. As Turbo entered his office, CT9000 swiftly produced his silver-plated and engraved Tonolini SxS 12 ga and pointed it at Turbo. "Just tell me again, what this bribe thing is?", he said menacingly. "It rates as a very unwise move in these parts, to offer bribes for contracts, son!" And Turbo gulped as he noticed both hammers were back. "You know".... CT went on. "The last time we had a bloke roll up here offering bribes to secure a major contract, he got.......

/graphics/ICAOtype/F406.gif Accident Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II VH-EYQ, Sunday 20 July 2025 ASN.FLIGHTSAFETY.ORG A Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II, VH-EYQ, impacted a field, 1.4 nm from runway 14 at Oakey Airport, QLD, Australia. Both occupants were seriously injured. The airplane was destroyed. The a...

I'd have to opine whatever originally held the shot in place has degraded to the point where the shot has become loose - an undesirable situation, I'd imagine. On the Vans aircraft, balance shot is held in place by epoxy. Perhaps this was also the case originally on the Terrier, but the epoxy has degraded with heat and aging, to the point where it let all the shot loose? Or perhaps there was a container of some type for the shot, that broke open?

.......and at that, DG immediately became known as the place where hard men lived, lives were short and fast, guns were in huge abundance, and produced at every minor argument, and most of the population lived underground, to avoid the sudden death that came with popping your head up unwisely, at any sound that could be................

Yes, that's good thinking in one respect, but grubs also live in grass, in their root systems, and plenty of birds go looking for grubs in the grass. I was watching the black kites on the oval directly adjacent to the Broome runway, and was surprised to see them walking considerable distances around the oval, checking the grass, and occasionally digging a grub or two out of it. There was a gathering of about 20 kites in one group, and quite a number of individual kites walking around. The grass on the oval is very short. I was quite interested in this behaviour, because I've never seen them on the ground much, they're usually spend 98% of their time just floating in big circles about 150'-200', looking for prey. They flock to any fires, knowing full well the fire is flushing out small prey. Cocos-Keeling islands runway on West Island provide some amusement, as regards bird discouragement. The runway has golf fairways each side, and the islands are full of wild bantams, brought there by the Cocos Malays. The bantams are fast and good flyers, and they can fly several hundred metres at probably 50'-60' altitude. They come out of the thick vegetation each side of the runway, and go looking for insects on the golf fairways. Discouragement of the bantams around the runway consists of a fast run down the runway in the airport ute, with all lights going! This makes all the bantams scatter, and fly back into the thick vegetation! This routine is carried out directly before each takeoff, whilst the aircraft is taxiing, to reduce the risk of bantam ingestion!

I'm in Broome at present, and it's a planespotters paradise of course, with everything from Cessnas to big and small choppers, B737's, A320's and a range of various size turboprops between about 10 and 30 seaters, all barrelling over the main streets of town at low enough altitude to nearly see the brand marks on the tyres. What surprised me is there appears to be no attempts at discouragement of birds around the airport, and there are PLENTY of them - all hanging around town, Roebuck Bay, and the airport, where all the food is, I guess. The black kites are a pretty big bird, much large than even the biggest ravens. However, the ravens seem to know where to avoid aircraft, but the black kites just don't care. The kites are constantly circling in steady glides with an occasional wing flap - and I watched a Cessna on descent roar overhead, at less than 200 feet altitude - and he passed directly over the top of two circling kites that were right in the flight path, and they never even changed their pattern. I reckon he only missed them by about 30 or 40 feet, I guess he would've seen them, but he made no course alteration to avoid the kites. I started checking up, and was surprised to find that not a single crash of an RPT due to bird strike, has been recorded in over 65 years of commercial aviation in Australia. There have been incidents of bird strikes where aircraft have had to return and land, due to bird strike damage, but never any incident where a bird or birds has brought an RPT aircraft down. Just goes to show, that the design engineers have bird strike protection well covered.

.......misheard what he was supposed to bring to the piss-up. However, Frankenstein soon turned out to be a riot, with his clown face, and antics such as digging up corpses for body parts. CT9000 was quite perturbed when he realised one of the "unwise men" he'd buried surreptitiously, appeared to arise on the third day (with the assistance of Frankenstein, of course), and when this unwise man was promptly produced at the piss-up, by Frankenstein, it gave CT9000 such a start, that he took to.........

One struggles to understand why a pilot with long standing in the aviation community, supposedly excellent piloting skills, and a fine aircraft, would place themselves in such a high-risk environment, as in flying right over the top of the Snowy Mts in seriously adverse weather and even more dangerous terrain. No doubt it will also puzzle the ATSB investigators, as well. One can only presume that old trait of complacency, that often comes with long experience, was the reason behind his poor decision-making.

That's excellent news. Now the real learning starts.

.......totally unaware of what all the words to the Hymn were, anyway - because he'd lost his Hymn book on the way in to the Strip Club. Now, it's not generally known that Cappy regularly carries a Hymn book and a clerical collar stuffed inside his shirt. This is because he managed to escape a very, VERY, sticky situation many years ago, whereby he was almost certainly going to be pounded to a pulp by a gang of threatening thugs - when he suddenly realised he was carrying the Hymn book and the clerical collar, purely by accident. So, as the thugs were advancing on him, Cappy promptly donned the clerical collar, and held out the Hymn book towards the thugs, saying, "I come in Peace, brothers, and may the Lord look............

A body has been retrieved from the aircraft wreckage at around 3:00PM EST today, and it is believed that it is the body of the pilot, David Stephens. The body is currently being examined to produce formal identification. The crash appears to be a high speed impact with terrain, an unsurvivable crash, and with wreckage spread over a sizeable area. Body found in Snowy Mountains amid search for missing pilot David Stephens - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU A body believed to be that of a missing pilot has been located in the wreckage of a plane in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains.

.....immediately, as always when things were hotting up, Cappy couldn't be found. But Turbo knew of his weakness for Wahinis, and went looking for him, at the hard-to-find, Wahini Strip Club and Poker Joint. You must all know of the place, it has a discreet small sign, saying, "Liquour in the front, Poker in the Rear". The club and its entrance were extremely well hidden, and this was because of the local leaders disapproval of such a decadent place in Tahiti, due to their Missionary upbringings. But Cappy, as always, was right into decadence and outrageous behaviour - and as soon as Turbo gained entrance to the Club (having garnered the secret entrance password by raking through Cappys wardrobe), he immediately spotted Cappy in the throes of.........

They are a big bird, for sure, but nowhere near 20 kgs. The references all state around 6kg as a maximum body weight. Their sheer size does make them look like they weigh 20kgs, though. I've raised a wedgetail eagle from a hen-sized chick to full adult size, after we unintentionally knocked its nest down during clearing operations. This was 50 years ago, when there were no laws on keeping or raising wildlife. We called him Samson, but it's quite possible he was a she, because we never sexed the bird. When Samson was full grown, his wingspan was huge, easily 2.4M. Their talons are massively powerful, and razor sharp. They're utterly fearless, as most aviators would know, they see light aircraft simply as intruders onto their territory, and are often quite prepared to confront them. They love attacking and destroying drones. Samson kept every dog that sighted him, utterly cowed. But even a 6kg bird hitting your aircraft when you're travelling at 90kts, is enough to do a lot of damage. Wedge-tailed eagle - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

More expansive information from the ABC ... Wreckage of missing plane located in Snowy Mountains, no update yet on pilot David Stephens - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU The wreckage of the plane was located on Thursday afternoon by a rescue helicopter, with NSW Police yet to provide an update on the pilot.

Well that report diverges in a major fashion from the preliminary report, which stated that one pilot asked "Why did you cut off fuel?" - and a reply was recorded as, "I didn't".

The aircraft is indeed, the Beech 35-C33, rego VH-KZK. It's a 1966 model originally registered in Oklahoma, then it was imported to W.A. in 1967 and put on Australian registration as VH-KZK. Powered by a Conty IO-470. The search resumed again this morning, reported heavy snowfalls in the region - with very rugged terrain, it must be a slog for search crews. No updates at this time. Ed Coates information about the aircraft is pretty good, but not entirely correct, it wasn't new when it came into W.A. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/N2045W.html https://airport-data.com/aircraft/VH-KZK.html /graphics/ICAOtype/BE33.gif Incident Beechcraft 35-C33 Debonair VH-KZK, Tuesday 15 July 2025 ASN.FLIGHTSAFETY.ORG A Beechcraft 35-C33 Debonair, carrying one occupant is missing in the area of Snowy Mountains, New South Wales. <br />Search operations are being conducted. VH-KZK WWW.EDCOATESCOLLECTION.COM

Nev, the 10 seconds is being taken out of context, because there's no timeline on the voices in the cockpit, and no full record of cockpit conversation - and no audio record produced, of cockpit noises. I'm reliably informed the clicking of switches and controls is picked up by the CVR, despite the noise of the engines. I suppose, if a devious criminal act was being carried out on the fuel cutoff switches, it would be possible to switch them relatively silently, by keeping hold of the spring-loaded locking collars, and lowering them slowly onto the notched locking ring. That would certainly darken the picture for investigators. The ball is in the Indian crash investigators court, there is a need for a lot more CVR and FDR information.

Check the dimensions of your old o-ring. MS29513-007 is listed as a fuel drain valve seal with the following specs. I've even included the metric dimensions, as you appear to be challenged by imperial/inch dimensions. 😄 O-ring ID: 0.145" (3.683mm) Thickness: 0.070" (1.778mm) Preformed packing Hydrocarbon fuel resistant MS29513 Series o-ring (The last numbers after the dash, are the size indicator. i.e., MS29513-008 is the next size up, in that fuel resistant o-ring style) This a military-grade o-ring, so should be highly satisfactory for your use - even suitable for when you go gunning for someone. 😄