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Nev, many acacia varieties of shrubby bushes are referred to as "kerosine bush", because they will burst into flame with a bit of heat applied, even when green. They contain a lot of volatile ingredients.

Yes, Moneybox - spinifex contains a resin that's like bitumen and it burns like bitumen, too. Many a four-wheel-driver has lost their 4WD to spinifex caught up in the exhaust system. You can carry and use a fire extinguisher, or even a 5L sprayer on it (the sprayer is supposed to be more effective), but when you think you've put the spinifex fire out, it promptly flares up again.

No, a bit later in the century than Clydes era, rgmwa! I STR it was in the late 1990's or early 2000's, and in the NW/Eastern Goldfields region of W.A., a way out from Laverton, W.A.

Who recalls the pilot who crash-landed successfully in W.A.'s outback, and who then lit a fire to attract attention to his plight? The only problem was, the spinifex was tinder dry, and located all around and under the aircraft - and the fire got out of control, and he burnt his machine to a crisp!!

Race cars no longer have major fires after crashing, because of the development of 5 main features in them - 1. Fuel tanks that are bladders made from rubberised Kevlar. They're almost puncture-proof, and they feature self-sealing valves that prevent major fuel loss, a primary cause of fire after a crash. 2. On-board fire suppression systems. They can be activated by the driver or race marshals to spray a fire suppressant around, which reduces the chance of a major fire taking hold. 3. Inertia-activated fuel cut-offs. They operate when a certain level of impact is detected, to prevent fuel being pumped onto the ground or onto a fire that is starting. 4. Fire-resistant clothing and protective equipment. This stuff provides a major level of protection from burns, if a fire does start. 5. Protective chassis/driver cockpit design. A cage around the driver helps protect the driver from impact injuries and a cage around the fuel cells helps prevent fuel cell ruptures. A lot of race car fire-proofing ideas could be transferred to aircraft, but weight is always an issue in aircraft. I'd have to opine one of the important fire-proofing features is to have a protective structure around the battery, which is often where the fire propagates from. Metal parts crushed onto unprotected battery terminals starts arcing, which ignites any fuel spilled. You can have spilled fuel with no problem, as long as ignition sources are removed. One of the first things you should do after any crash, is disconnect the battery as fast as you can get to it, or bend mangled metal materials away from it, so you can disconnect it. That process is applicable to any petrol-powered machine involved in a crash, aeroplanes or cars.

No, it was a "Darwin Award" offence. Rules and regulations are in place to prevent stupid people killing themselves, and creating a huge mess for others to clean up, and adding serious levels of costs onto others.

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Nev, in my long experience, and the experience of many friends and associates, insurance companies often do their best to avoid payouts, and they will conduct their own "investigation" of events, and come to their own conclusions, without reference to the insured, or any official reports. I trust it doesn't happen in this event, at least there is video evidence of what happened.

Skippy, I think you're a little confused with your wording. The general consensus is someone who goes off on a tangent, is someone who loses focus on the subject, or the project aim. Perhaps you meant "divergent thinking", or "thinking outside the square", as it is commonly described. Many revolutionary discoveries were made completely by accident, and I believe Flemings discovery of penicillin was one of them. Fleming returned from a 2 week vacation to find an uncovered petri dish had become contaminated by a blue-green mould, and the mould, in subsequent research, was identified as a rare strain of Penicillium notatum.

I think the aircraft insurer could be their main worry, right about now.

I might add, that the Firefly Carbon-Foam battery, which retailed at around US$530 for a 116 A/H battery a year or two ago, appears to have been taken out of production, in favour of a Firefly Li-ion battery. Firefly appear to be still intent on selling their Carbon-Foam technology, which the company indicates, has multiple applications, besides batteries. My money is on a Chinese lab producing the next biggest improvement in battery technology - the amount of Chinese money going into battery technology is staggering, and Trumps "anti-immigrant" stance has driven a lot of highly intelligent Chinese researchers to leave the U.S. universities and corporations they worked for, and return to China - and of course, they won't be employed by American companies or unis, once that occurs.

All this, should raise eyebrows globally .... ⁠400 Wh/kg energy density ⁠Five-minute full charge ⁠Designed for up to 100,000 cycles ⁠Extremely safe ⁠⁠Made of globally abundant materials Over ⁠⁠99% capacity retained in -30 degrees celsius ⁠Lower cost than lithium-ion So ... Donut Labs have achieved something that no other major research institution, global corporation, or even a mega-billion dollar State-funded effort (here's looking at you, China and America), has achieved - and all without battery cooling as well?? Methinks someone is stretching the truth more than a little. Unless they've found new chemical structures that no-one else has been able to find to date, their claims need to be taken with a large grain of salt. And I'll wager all of the above-mentioned parties involved in improved battery development, will be placing bulk orders for these batteries, so they can go straight to their labs for teardown. And I think Thrusters comment about no mention of any patents is very telling. That is usually the first thing to brag about, in new, outstanding advances. I'm reminded of the R&D effort by Caterpillar in a JV with the Firefly company, much earlier in this century. Caterpillar set off with a target of producing a new, outstanding lead-acid battery, with vastly improved performance, lighter weight (targeting one-quarter the weight of the standard lead-acid battery), much lower cost, and using materials and chemicals and compounds that were not exotic, nor held by "unfriendly" countries. At the end of the day, after the expenditure of multiple tens of millions of dollars in their search for the holy grail of lead acid batteries, Firefly came out with the Carbon-Foam plate battery. Firefly established a small market for their new battery, virtually limited to the U.S., and virtually limited to marine and camper use, all the while still claiming outstanding advances in battery technology, along with multiple tens of new battery technology patents. Around 15 years on, the Firefly carbon-foam battery has made no appreciable inroads into the battery market; Caterpillar pulled out of the JV in 2010, stating that they could find better uses for their R&D money - and Firefly have moved all their manufacturing to India. The Firefly batteries still aren't cheap, in fact they are "premium" priced batteries. In addition, there are numerous Firefly battery end-users who are disappointed that the claims made by Firefly often don't stack up - especially when it comes to longevity, and the ability to deep discharge and fully recharge successfully. I trust that Donut Labs can "produce the goods", that match their "marketing spiel" in their promotional material - but I feel that many of their claims may turn out to be exaggerated marketing hype.

Somebody had better call The Donald real quick, and organise to shut this guy down! He's gonna destroy half of American industry, if he isn't stopped! Can you imagine an America with no oil production, and no V8 engines?? 😄

........Leading Hand of the secret Govt programme, not only because Bull had invented the BBH, but because he was also know for being "handy" with the girls. And with his BBH's, Bull found he could reach the girls that he couldn't normally reach, so that made things even more exciting, as the girls would turn to see who had grabbed them, and all they could see was.........

Here's a FB video of the machine. It reportedly uses an "RMZ-250" engine, which is a Suzuki motorbike engine. 25 reactions · 11 shares | Flight on a homemade plane Pchelka, taking... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Flight on a homemade plane Pchelka, taking off from a simple road near the forest. Aircraft weight 65 kg, rmz-250 engine, legal flights in zone G, 😍👑✌

It should've been a hit with the bankers and lawyers! Just needed some marketing ooomph. "The Accountant. Saves you money, not just on your tax!" 😄

That cap is ready to fall apart, I've never seen polypropylene so badly sun-bleached. Finding the correct thread is often the hassle, once you go outside the "regular" suppliers. There's so many different threads on containers and caps, I'm sure a lot of them produce their own thread varieties.

He mightn't be so lucky next time he hits the runway like that! - so I hope he's learnt what he did wrong!

Isn't that why you do your flying in the early morning? - to avoid major turbulence, as the day heats up?

......all carried hand extensions, to ensure no-one caught any nasty bugs from possible-disease-carrying people, that they didn't know well. Bull won the day however, when he produced his version of hand extensions, which extensions also had the major advantages of not leaving any fingerprints, and being able to hold larger rolls of notes, when they were being handed out. It wasn't long before bull worked out the hand extensions were also good for handling smelly prawns, and this kept the prawn smell off him, and this made him even more attractive to the ladies (as if he wasn't already attractive to them - after all, he didn't get the nickname "bull", for nothing!) Further to the above, bull soon found there were many others clamouring for his hand extensions, and as a result, he formed "Bulls Big Hands Inc" to start producing his invention on an industrial scale. Very soon, as the fat profits rolled in, bull started to realise he could now afford......... (and here, Dear NES readers, we have an image of bulls major invention, which has since revolutionised manual handling, in many fields of endeavour).....

Two men, both in their 50's, transported to hospital, one with back injuries, the second with knee and chest injuries. The gyro crashed into trees around 6:00AM near the remote (4WD) Teewah Firebreak Track. Investigation into gyro crash NOOSATODAY.COM.AU Police are investigating an aviation incident after a gyrocopter crashed at Noosa North Shore early Sunday morning. A Queensland Police [...]

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.....the authenticity came into question when a $2 shop price sticker was found on the base of the bronze griffon. Further probing revealed the only bronze part of the bronze griffon that was actually bronze, was the paint it was coated with. Under the bronze paint was cast aluminium and a stamped marking that said "Hindustan Aluminium Castings - made from the finest scavenged household utensils in all of India". This discovery then led to a round of incriminations, with the finger pointing at Howie Carter-Cook - who vehemently denied any knowledge of cheap, imitation bronze griffons, cast in aluminium in the backstreets of Mumbai (note the correct name, Turbo still lives in his glory days of the 1890's) - and being sold as genuine finds from the tomb of Tutan-Turbine. The ramifications of this discovery went through the archaelogical world like a dose of Epsom Salts - especially when it was found that a Bronze Griffin in the British Museum, long reputed to be a genuine Tutan-Turbine artifact, had a $2 shop price sticker on it, too. This was all too much for the renowned archaeologist, Sir Edmund Fosdyke Wuntrack, who was famous for his previously unknown role in uncovering the Piltdown man hoax. Not a lot of people realised that Wuntrack (an uncle of Onetrack) was now on the trail of a certain archaelogical faker, who mostly appeared to be based in an area near Wagga Wagga - and who claimed to be able to find amazing archaelogical artifacts in diverse places, such as Kapooka, Moorabbin, and even Gobbagombalin. This claim raised eyebrows until it was revealed that the faker had.........

You need to do something about that cheap video camera, the footage is terrible, all those black stripes through it! 😄

What about a good used Limbach engine? I was going to suggest a Revmaster engine, but it appears Revmaster aero engines are no longer produced.