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....Made in China!!!", he exclaimed. "Well, I'll be f******!!" exclaimed OT. "I didn't see those little stickers on them, when I bought them from TurboCrayBoats, Inc! There'll be some repercussions come out of this shady deal, for sure!!" - and OT reached for..........

Ian, I'm quite happy for you to amalgamate the two sites. I'm sure you'll be able to set it up so that Social Australia is identified as a social forum, and a separate area to RF.

There's always going to be some "pollution" of content, no matter what you're running - threads going off-topic are common on most forums, anyway. Moderation keeps them on topic.

I'm surprised that there's a higher percentage of spammers and scammers on Social Australia. Is there something you do on RF, that keeps spammers and scammers to a low level?

I've reported scammers in the RF classifieds numerous times, so they must still get in. I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in keeping spammers and scammers out of forums, one just minimises them with intense moderation.

I quite enjoy the S.A. forum and I was hoping my annual $50 contribution went a good way towards covering the cost of operating it.

Please don't ever transfer anything to FB, it's the home of scammers and the owner's morality and ethics is suspect, too. Plus their format is utter crap, it's all centred around "likes", and much puerile content.

There's a big difference between grams and millilitres, you're comparing apples to oranges. Grams is weight measure, ml is volume measure.

You can have a vast difference in quantity for the same numerical amount, depending on the S.G. of the particular product.

Stainless steel bolts can never be rated as "high tensile", you need low-alloy steel for that requirement. 6mm diameter sounds to me like a serious under-estimation, or under engineering, of the loading on them, in a major crash.

John Wagner of Wellcamp Airport fame, has thrown his fat wallet down, to help finance infrastructure for pilot-less eVTOL taxis.

Of course, with him owning an airport, he can see more money-making synergies in financing the infrastructure for uncrewed air taxis .

Businessman John Wagner signs deal with Skyports to develop air taxis for south-east Queensland - ABC News

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Businessman John Wagner backs the use of flying taxis ahead of the 2032 Olympics but there are still a few hurdles for the technology to overcome.

........the major carrot farms were located, looking to haul back a decent supply of carrots, to enable them to carrot a few more of the........

I've heard nothing about the flying hoverbikes the Dubai Police were supposed to be using by now?

.......bull, who wanted the NES to continue broadly along the lines of his story involving the Gubbmint taking every right and possession off every upstanding citizen, in a slow and stealthy manner, over many years, under the guise of, "we're from the Gubbmint, and we're here to help you.......

Scrap was gathered from everywhere to fuel the furnaces for war. I can recall when in the U.K., learning how the steel and wrought iron fences around many important homes and places were pulled out and melted down.

Aluminium scrap was sought far and wide. Every single item with even a small amount of aluminium in it was gathered up and fed into the furnaces. Cars, trucks, tractors, anything deemed to not be repairable was sent to scrap.

I can recall an old Italian wrecker at Dog Swamp, W.A., who retired in 1974, telling me how he nearly cried when he thought back to how many beautiful brass and chrome radiator shells and headlights and trims, from now rare and outstanding vehicles of the 1920's and 1930's, were sent by him for scrap, for the War effort.

Check out the photos on the AWM site, of the monstrous piles of scrap gathered up for the War effort. Even old tyres assumed enormous value for their rubber content when the Japanese had cornered the rubber supplies in 1942 and 1943.

Yes, my apologies, I meant to write "Allied" instead of "American", but I was distracted when I wrote that line up and was concentrating on other things.

According to the site below, though, the U.S. Merchant Marine suffered the worst losses of all the civilian shipping losses during WW2 - 733 ships over 1000 tons lost, and 1,554 ships in total. 

Many U.S. ships were either reflagged or sailed under flags of countries that were U.S. possessions - such as the Phillipines and Panama. The Panama Canal was under U.S. possession during WW2.

Good thing he had plenty of power available!!

It doesn't take much contemplation to see why the design didn't proceed. Not a lot of money to be made from an aircraft that size, that only carries 6 pax.

They were very lucky to survive in that heavy timber. Link to ABC report ....

Pair freed from wreckage after light plane crashes east of Gympie - ABC News

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Two Sunshine Coast men were treated at the scene before being taken to hospital after their aircraft came down in a rural area at Coondoo just before 11.30am.

Genuine Honda parts - "Made in China"!  It must feel good, relying 100% on staying airborne, using the finest Chinese-manufactured components!? 😮

.......rights to fly highly modified kit-built aircraft away from us, and only allow professionally-built factory aircraft to fly. This, of course, will lead to a vast underground movement of illegal kit-built aircraft, flying at odd hours, with unregistered pilots - and outlaws will rule the sky!!

And amongst the biggest of the rebellious aerial outlaws, will be the one known far and wide as, "bull of the tasmanian backwoods", whose daring disobeyance of Govt rules and regulations pertaining to flying will become the stuff of Legend, as he thumbs his nose at all type of Govt controls and regulation, and he'll carry firearms with him to back up his rebel stance.

As part of his new modus operandi, bull will have a large decal applied to his illegally-built and illegally-flown aircraft, with the words "Don't Step On Me!" emblazoned in 36 point Sans Serif, with the Brotherhood message screaming "Danger", to any Govt official who dares to........

What an amazing shot, and being able to find an aircraft tug still in position. I'd have to opine it was chained down or held in place with steel wire rope. I'd like to see photos of all the new items of machinery and aircraft that went down in the Atlantic between 1941 and 1944, thanks to the German U-boats.

America lost 3,500 ships to the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic, and most were Merchant Marine ships, and poorly armed or completely unarmed. They were nearly all full of new equipment for the British and Soviet militaries - aircraft, trucks, jeeps, tractors, Caterpillar dozers and graders, and other earthmovers. New portable gensets, new engines, new tyres, new construction materials, and a thousand other items needed to support the War effort.

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I fail to understand why anyone would want a dark-coloured aircraft, car, or house in our generally hot climate.

Sitting on the tarmac on any day over 25°C in a light aircraft with minimal ventilation, and you soon start to feel like you're in an oven.

Dark colours increase internal heating by a sizable amount. Red is about the worst colour of all, for heating up.

Plenty of Boeings have gone into the ocean, or terrain, stalled. 90% of aircraft crashes are pilot error, says the crash statistics.

I think you need to troll elsewhere. How about bringing up a story about regular Russian pilot incompetence, or Tupolev unreliability?

.....a bunch of undisciplined rabble (a great term that my old Sgt. taught me .... with frequent use, I might add) - who could not, and would not, follow instructions, regularly failed to salute Turbo (many claimed it was because they didn't recognise him - getting a Dragon tattoo will do terrible things to your appearance) - wouldn't keep their weapons clean, regularly called their rifle "a gun" (remember the old Army saying, as you were told to hold onto your rifle in one hand, and your privates in the other? - "this is my rifle, this is my gun! - this one's for shooting, this one's for fun").

It wasn't much fun for Turbo trying to beat some AUF rabble into a disciplined fighting force, but after 6 mths of hard slog, Turbo was starting to see some results - apart from the.........

.......coming up to him and saying, "Are you the one they talk about, that has one dragging on the ground?" And Turbo would say, "No, sorry, I only have one Dragon on my back" - and at that, he would take his shirt off, to show his superb Dragon tattoo - which was impressive, for sure, but not anywhere near as impressive as one dragging on the ground.

The ladies would usually look disappointed, and depart - which made Turbo puzzled, because he was always convinced that having a Dragon tattoo was a sure-fire chick-magnet.

This got Turbo to thinking. If the Dragon tattoo wasn't going to work as well as he was originally advised, then maybe he could improve his chances with a red Corvette. Accordingly, he went looking for......

Not necessarily. Yes, the pilots body wasn't recovered from this accident, which is sad. However, at the relatively low airspeed he was at (as compared to a combat crash), the pilot could've survived initial impact, but drowned because he was knocked unconscious, or because he couldn't escape the cockpit fast enough, before the aircraft went under water. This is why underwater escape training has become an important field in recent decades.

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/histories/naval-aviation/Naval Aviation News/1990/1997/november-december/vapor.pdf

Don't ya just hate it, when that happens?? 😄

.....initiating the highly-sought-after Big Ghoolies Award medal, handed out for acts of heroism, bravery, endurance, and impressive feats. Every year, on Boxing Day, people flocked to Ghooli to assemble and find out if they had qualified for a Big Ghoolies Award medal - and as only one BGAM was handed out each year by Wendal, it meant that many came away disappointed, as there could be only one recipient every year.

Of course, Turbo rocked up to the awards ceremony on Boxing Day 2023, to see if he had qualified for a BGAM, due to his impressive feat of developing........

Starter rotation is always determined by looking at the starter from the nose end. Starter rotation is governed by the starter mounting, which means the starter nose is either pointing towards the rear of the engine, or pointing towards the front of the engine.

I think mental health checks and drugs tests may soon be added to boarding security checks, before very long.