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No worse than carrying 90-100 litres of highly volatile petrol in tanks all around you? - that invariably burst open in a crash? The number of lithium battery fires is possibly only slightly higher today, than the number of petrol fires.

Skippy, the website link you provided is a Korean manufacturer site, not Chinese (and your link doesn't work because you included a full stop in the address). The reason they are refusing to provide any advice on speaker upgrades is because the site is a manufacturer site, and the page is only providing specifications of their products, it's not a "shop" page where you can buy items or get advice. They will only reply to large businesses seeking to order high volumes of their product. https://unique-sound.co.kr/products/ Is the speaker in your VW or Audi? I guess you're looking for an alternative replacement, due to the "European manufacturer tax"? (i.e. - high parts prices). The Chinese are your friend, they can supply the US3750B, plus they can supply a US3750C alternative. Unfortunately they provide no specifications for either buzzer, you will have to email the seller, and ask for the precise electrical specs. However, if you check the Korean manufacturer site again, the specs are there for the US3750C they manufacture. I would presume the Chinese specs are identical, but it would pay to check. The only problem I see, is the US3750C produces sound at a higher frequency (870Hz VS 430Hz for the US3750B) - and as you age, high frequencies are the ones your aging ears fail to pick up. I'd suggest the major problem with your original buzzer is that it has simply weakened with age, and no longer produces sound levels to the original specifications. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010041259835.html?gatewayAdapt=4itemAdapt#nav-specification https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008216109531.html#nav-specification

He's obviously full of inflated self-importance.

If you've been a regular insurance cover holder, and haven't paid the renewal on the due date, most insurance companies give you a grace period, usually 14 days. If you haven't advised them you've done a camper conversion and installed "non-standard" accessories or equipment, then your chances of making a successful claim, are indeed extremely low. Most importantly, have you determined precisely how the fire started? Lithium batteries general only self destruct if they are charged incorrectly, such as using a non-original charger, or if they have endured some kind of physically destructive event. There have been an increasing number of household lithium battery fires, usually starting from electric scooters, electric power tools, computer equipment, and mobility "go-fers" - but in nearly every case, faulty charging was the initiator. A few cases involved poor quality batteries. I'm very alert to small chargers containing voltage transformers, such as phone chargers - these often run uncomfortably hot to my way of thinking, and I never leave them unattended. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-08/lithium-batteries-sparking-house-fires-wa/105629032

Well, that's one Hyundai you won't be fixing the engine on. Luckily it was high kms. Now comes the wrangle with the insurance company over the fine details in the PDS? Such as, only being covered when it's parked in your postcode?

Sounds like the DOGE team found a new target, when they couldn't find the trillions in savings they promised, by dismantling large sections of the U.S Govt?

There's a vast number of magazines and publications that are no longer available in print form. The cost of printing and transport of the printed publication is enormous, especially when it has to be transported halfway around the the Earth. Think of the saving in trees and transport pollution when you sit down at your laptop or desktop and read the digital version of Kitplanes. Fully 99% of transactions with business and Govt and banking are now digital. It does make it hard for the oldies, and the Luddites who detest change in entire systems. The world is constantly changing.

The simple problem with aircraft is that you don't have the luxury of lots of time to do fault-finding, or to think at length about what may be going wrong. Seconds count, in almost every case of flight upset.

No, the shadow is correct, and the photos are genuine. Here's the link to the original photo site, and you can get the original photo size by left clicking on it, plus you can get the Canon camera photo metadata simply by scrolling down the page. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000525654.html

We are talking multiple flight control computers on the Airbus, and they runs 10's of thousands of lines of code continuously. These computers also check and cross-check the information feed from the multiple sources of information. They also check on each other to ensure reliability of information being provided. This is all done by coding, and coding is basically only ones and zeros in an electronic system (the binary system). When someone writes up new code for an "improved version" of software, it is supposed to be removing "bugs" from the previous version. However, as we all know, software updates are notorious for introducing other "bugs", while the update cures previous "bugs". If the software update was not tested extensively enough, it's entirely possible the update introduced system weaknesses when faced with intense solar radiation, that were not present in the previous software version. Intense solar radiation is essentially an EMF event - whereby a major burst of electromagnetic energy can cause unwanted electronic response. Remember how you can get fluoro tubes to glow without a plugged-in power source, simply by holding them close to HV powerlines? The fluoros are energised by the intense magnetic field surrounding the HV powerlines. So, accordingly, an intense burst of EMF from a solar flare can induce unwanted electric currents in electronic devices, and this can scramble the computers binary system/s as the electronics get rattled. Don't forget radiation levels are already much higher at RPT flight levels, and therefore the intensity of solar flare EMF's is much greater than we would receive on the surface of the Earth. I don't think AB are BS'ing on this, but perhaps they are struggling to get a handle on what happened precisely, when the inadvertent flight control actions were carried out on the Airbus involved in the flight upset. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/113684/why-did-the-airbus-a320-pitch-down-due-to-solar-radiation-recently-when-a-corru

Let me know how you go, trying to find that "carbon-neutral fuel derived from microalgae", bowser! - anywhere! The Japanese Govt has thrown about $3B into research into alternative fuels, trying to get away from fossil fuels, and become independent as regards their transportation fuels - but despite promising to deliver on large and reliable alternative sources, such as methane hydrate fuels, bio-fuels, hydrogen fuel, LPG-derived fuels, and a dozen other wild ideas - nothing they have done so far, has promise, as regards delivering large quantities of alternative IC fuels at modest cost. Meantimes, the battery research and developments continue on at a sizzling pace - and most of it, is coming from China.

The Mazda Vision X-Coupe is a gimmicky prototype, and it will never make it to the production stage. Car companies spend hundreds of millions on ideas like this, then throw it all in the bin, when it proves to not be practical.

.....ersatz beef, also known as "fake meat", which enrages the average red-meat-eating, manly man. However, when the fake meat is dressed up like Tony in a wig, this brings out the very worst in the meat-lovers, and it has been known for them to attack displays of fake meat products in shops, which then leads to..........

People that have learned English as a second language tend to use the term "pilot" for "driver". Variations of the word “pilot” mean “race car driver” in several other languages like French (pilote) or Spanish (piloto). The more common term for French motorcycle riders is "motards" - which word is also used as the French general description of motorcycles. Of course, there's always, "le conducteur" as a better term, too! Don't a lot of RPT Captains refer to themselves as "bus drivers"? And then there's the horror that so many aviation terms originate from French - and French was even shortlisted in 1951, by the ICAO, as the language of the air! https://www.tennesseeaircraft.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mind-Your-Aviation-Language-French-Words.pdf

I believe this is the crashed aircraft ... https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1403532354035011

This is terrible news. 2025 is going to go down as a dreadful year for light aircraft crashes in Australia. 2024 was a really bad year with 27 fatalities, 2025 must have exceeded that figure already. There were 16 fatalities from 12 crashes up to the end of July, and there have been a serious number of crashes and fatalities, since then.

The ABC News article is most certainly centred around just the effect on Jetstar, and it's not an aviation technical report, and it ignores all the other affected airlines. Jetstar are most affected because they own around 90 A320's - but only 34 of the Jetstar A320's are affected by the recall. Virgin only own 4 A320's affected by the recall, and were able to work around those aircraft being pulled from operations for the software revamp. Qantas are not affected, as none of their aircraft are covered by the recall.

Don't forget! - they use piles of cardboard boxes for the stuntmen to land in, when they make those fabulous leaps, from the tops of big buildings!

Here's an ABC news article regarding the problem. Jetstar has had about 90 flights grounded. The repair involves a software update that takes about 2 hrs - but as always, a shortage of qualified LAMEs is a big part of the problem, that is causing delays. The software "update" actually involves reverting to the previous version of the aircrafts computer programming. It appears the latest software update installed was unable to cope with the solar flares. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-29/jetstar-flights-grounded-delayed-due-to-airbus-a320-recall/106081408

As I understand it, the BOM was dead-set on setting up the new site purely due to major security concerns surrounding the old site. The old site apparently runs on Linux and some "bad actors" (in the form of potential enemy countries) had been infiltrating the old site to garner a lot of useful, easily accessible information, about the stats and conditions of many things in Australia, related to water, and even geography. Not a lot of people know that the BOM site contains water reservoir information across all States, with detailed information on locations, reservoir names, reservoir capacities, water level heights and percentages of capacity, as well as other useful information to any "bad actor" planning any kind of enemy assault on our country. Not a lot different to the Japanese who did covert surveillance of Australias geographic features and facilities in the late 1930's. https://www.bom.gov.au/water/dashboards/#/water-storages/summary/state

Nothing that a couple of dampening springs wouldn't fix! I'm surprised, that with Peter Sripol reportedly having engineering qualifications, that he didn't work that little problem out.

I like one of the comments on Peter Sripol's Instagram page - "One time my dad asked about you in the car, and he was surprised to hear that you were still alive!" 😄

Wow, I can see some real potential there! Fill all the open spaces with expanding styrofoam, paint the outside of the cardboard with some Dulux Weathershield, and you're in with the winners! 😄 Crashproofing due to the styrofoam, waterproofing due to the Dulux, all that's needed is to ensure triple-wall cardboard is in the fuselage and wing spars! 😄 Have you seen how strong triple-wall cardboard is, and how durable Dulux Weathershield is?! Fantastic stuff! This thing will outlast the Gooney Birds! 😄

You have to ask - Why? It looks like a throwback to a draggy 1930's design.

John - A 33-year-old Boeing 747-400, registration HL7413, operated by Asiana Airlines Cargo, holds the record for the most hours flown by any Boeing aircraft: 149,645 hours. Converted from passenger service to freighter in 2007, this aircraft continues to fly key transpacific cargo routes. Second on the list is Cargojet’s 767-300ER (C-FCAE) with 147,861 hours, followed by Delta Air Lines N171DN 767-300ER, still flying passengers with over 145,622 hours. The B747 and B767 are amongst the best of the very well built (or perhaps "overbuilt") aircraft ever produced. Of course, the venerable Douglas DC-3 is also up amongst the long-lived list of aircraft, but their piston engines are possibly their weak point for ensuring longevity. A lot of DC-3's crashed simply due to engine failure. Jet engines reliability is one of the reasons why the B747 and B767 airframes can last for so long.