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Well, I wonder what Plan B is? - seeing as Plan A ended in disaster?

Well done to the blokes driving, they made a successful wheels up landing in the dark, and didn't blow up the airport, which is what the media rabble were hoping to see.

Bit of a shame they didn't hit the actual factory instead of the workers accommodation. I'd really like to see a Russian ammo or drone factory in flames.

A 6 seater Beech 58 Baron of Gold Coast Air. Just the two pilots on board.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/fiery-emergency-landing-on-the-gold-coast-got-into-a-lot-of-trouble/news-story/108b3e88d4386c454749ff726ad690bb

If Amazon had delivered it, it would've been thrown over the fence, and you'd be looking at a wrecked kit.

You can get up to 8M tide variations in Darwin, but the mean neap tidal range is 1.9M, and spring tides have a range variation of up to 5.5M. Casuarina Beach is very flat, and I'd be surprised if the aircraft didn't get some level of "wet feet".

.........a whole 2 cans of "Start Ya Bastard" before one got to see it light up. However on this particular day, Captain went through 3 whole cans of SYB, and it still wouldn't start. It was only then he realised that........

You're supposed to have trashed all that "old technology by now. The problem is, a lot of stuff that isn't voice communication still relies on 3G.

State Water Supply Depts rely on 3G networks to keep track of water levels in reservoirs and tanks are a typical example. It's going to create a lot of additional costs for a lot of people and Govt Depts.

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It's been a feature of Australian phone coverage for decades, but within nine months all of Australia's 3G ...

The title is - "Wrong kind of landing strip: Plane ’crash’ at Top End nudist beach". I've disabled Javascript and the paywall is still there. However, the photo shows Arafura Airlines VH-KER stuck in some soft tidal flat ground.

The aircraft is a Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six. Arafura Airlines VH-KER. Just might have been the old Piper faulty fuel selector trick again?

I've been to Casuarina Beach (close on 20 yrs ago), it was pretty poorly populated by way of beachgoers, and the gays have taken over most nudist beaches anyway, so nothing of interest much to hetero people.

I'm surprised they managed a satisfactory landing, the tidal flat is pretty soft clayey sand, and any incoming tide would be a worry, as Darwins tides are pretty big.

I always understood the two-speed rear axle for the Ford cars and trucks was a Ruckstell. I believe there were Rocky Mountain brakes available for the Model T, but I've never heard of a Rocky Mountain 2-speed rear axle.

.....sheer terror, as most glider pilots never never admit to wearing brown corduroy trousers every trip, such is the level of fear in gliding. To add to the flying fear, is the landing spot fear. Many a glider pilot came down in.........

Skippy, click on the envelope symbol on the LHS menu.

.....anything larger than a control-line model aircraft. It was during one of these GOM (Grump Old Men) grumble sessions, that Capt Cook, who was listening in as an invitee, suggested they all go........

Four upcoming airshow dates have now been posted in the Events calendar -

Warbirds over Scone 23/24th March 2024

Nhill Airshow, 13th April 2024

West Sale ANZAC Weekend Airshow, 27/28th April 2024

Central Coast Airshow at Warnervale, 25/26th May 2024.

It seems a lot of forum users are unaware of the EVENTS calendar. I've posted local air events on there when I knew they were forthcoming, but we run very light on events on the Left Coast, it seems all the air events are on the East Coast.

Also, as COVID killed off a lot of public events, it seems that forum users just forgot about the events calendar, as very little was happening throughout the pandemic period.

On the LEFT HAND SIDE MENU, there is an EVENTS Calendar - and ANYONE can ADD any forthcoming EVENT to it, that may be of interest to forum readers.

Maybe Ian needs to make the EVENTS part of the LHS menu, more prominent on the website? In flashing text, perhaps?? 

That's some aim!!

Leaning out for a selfie shot, and slipped? All too common today.

There's a Lea Kestrel on Gumtree that's on offer for $3000. The problem is, it has incurred some storm damage, it's unregistered, and it's in Sarina, Qld. The storm damage doesn't appear to be major.

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.......megaphone, turned it up to full volume and yelled, "CAPTAIN COOK, PROMPTLY ADDRESS YOUR APPROACH SPEED!" 

At the sound of the words, "approach speed", the captains aviation training kicked in, over and above his marine training, and he grabbed the throttle levers and pulled them back to idle, thus disappointing not only the assembled, waiting, phone camera holding hordes - but it also raised huge disappointment in the TMD rep embedded in the crowd (because all media reps have to be embedded to blend in), and he could see millions slipping away, as bulls trawler rapidly slowed. However, bull wasn't done yet, and he.........

There's very little that mankind has imagined that hasn't come true in some form. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but some near future period will almost certainly utilise personalised air transport.

As with many things, no-one can predict what inventions will appear in the future, to bring about wholesale changes to society.

If the early "future projectionists" could've foreseen the invention of the transistor and electronics miniaturisation, they would've been much more accurate with their projections. As it was, a number of them did foresee important inventions.

....decided he'd also like to go head-to-head with the Turbine conglomerate in numerous other fields - especially after sighting the documents that outlined the massive profits in Cat farms, joint ventures with CT9000 in rabbit destruction, and the extensive property development and land holdings in the Spratlys. 

But the thing that really raised Charlies interest was the Turbine Aviation profits. It appeared aviators were constantly ripe for scalping. Just mention a new aircraft accessory and add a couple of zeros to the regular non-aviation price, and the punters were sucked in, like it was a pea and thimble bet table at the local fair.

Accordingly, Charlie looked at how aircraft accessories could added to the Corn Flakes factory lines. This would take a little ingenuity, but he was sure it could be done. Via a mutual friend he found a bloke in Tasmania who had factory modification skills - and aviation skills as well. He was the prefect fit for the job. Charlie called this bloke, and found out that..........

Would suicide be a possibility? Seems strange that witnesses stated they saw the aircraft going nose-down at high power, and the investigators have determined it hit the ground at an angle of 60°.

Nothing stacks up - "no evidence of an in-flight break-up or other pre-impact airframe or control defects", and the engine was deemed to be producing power at impact.

State of mind of the pilot must be part of this investigation. All the other information points to adequate pilot skills - "The instructor reported that, during these flights, the student pilot demonstrated exceptional aircraft handling proficiency, and the instructor assessed them as competent and ready for their first solo".

Not just "adequate" aircraft handling proficiency - but "exceptional" proficiency. How many can claim to be classed at "exceptional" skill levels, with low hours?

My little Chinese Rossi 200A inverter welder has Toshiba MOSFETS in it. I've never seen such an advancement, nor such an increase in reliability, as this little beast.

It weighs 7kgs against the 35kgs of my previous CIG Handyman welder, and it welds like a welder 3 times its size!

It's never stopped in the 5 or 6 years I've owned it, and I've run 4.0mm electrodes with it for an extended period. Those MOSFETS have revolutionised the electronics industry.