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.......BANG! - there goes all your good work involved in making the cheese!! "There needs to be a major investigation into how all this came about", said OT, who had now got a job with the ATSB, and was relishing the public service working conditions and pay - especially the morning and afternoon teas.

"For a start, we need to investigate who installed the holes in the cheese and how it was carried out, and how many inspectors checked the holes, and whether they were fully qualified to check holes!", said OT.

"I was one of the inspectors!" piped up Cappy. "I've been fully qualified in checking out holes, ever since I moved to.........

I must say I detest the State telling me I can only go 110kmh on highways when I'm personally convinced I could happily do 200kmh without any problems.

Unfortunately, my decision to do 200kmh is not in the best interests of all road users, and comes with vastly increased risk to my health, other road users health, and other potential major cost burdens on society.

So, the result is, we have speed laws that tell me what I can do, and can't do - and only those stupid enough to think that they, and they alone, hold the right to determine whatever speed they wish to do, is the speed limit, soon find out one of two things - they crash and maim or kill themselves or others (thereby showing the legal speed limit isn't simply the State forcing unpalatable restrictions on them) - or they run into law enforcement that ensures the drivers decision to do whatever speed they choose to do, comes with serious financial, and possibly personal freedom penalties.

The Belgium address is the Infobel website owners address. Infobel merely gather up publically-available information. It appears Yalcowinna Pastoral Co is not listed on either White Pages nor Yellow Pages, so that makes it harder to find contact information. However, Peter H Davis is contactable through LinkedIn, he has a profile there. But you need to join LinkedIn if you're not already registered with them.

If that approach fails, try contacting the Cooma Rotary Club, Peter Davis is (or was) their President.

One Peter H Davis operates the Yalcowinna Pastoral Company at Shannons Flat Rd, Murrumbucca, and if you zoom out on the map location for the airstrip that I posted in the 2nd post, you will see the driveway leading to the farm homestead runs off Shannons Flat Rd. I'm sure that's enough details to be able to contact the airstrip owner.

https://www.infobel.com/en/australia/peter_h_davis_madeline_n_davis_yalcowinna_pastoral_co/murrumbucca/AU103494483/businessdetails.aspx

A better idea is vehicle proximity sensors that activate brakes, to be fitted to trucks, to counter the number of truck drivers who insist of keeping pedal to metal, when they should be backing off - a major cause of many road crashes. The number of drivers who won't back off when caution dictates it, is amazing.

..... lowship, and the making of new friends - apart from Russians, who were all marked as needing ........

.......DG has assumed a whole new level of Public Service and Govt Dept interest, thanks to its........

The idea of jumping or being thrown clear of the danger of injury or death in a rollover literally went out the window with forklift rollovers. Almost without fail, anyone who tried to jump clear, or was thrown from a forklift during a rollover, was crushed by the forklift landing on them. Thus, seatbelts are the greatest safety feature ever added to forklifts.

There's an amazing true story where a forklift driver in America sued Caterpillar for designing and producing unsafe forklifts, when his Cat forklift rolled on him, he was thrown from the Cat forklift (as no seatbelts were fitted to it), and he lost both legs when the forklift landed on him.

When the lawsuit was issued, the manager of the Caterpillar forklift design dept, was so intent on securing a win for Caterpillar, that he went out and got on the exact same model of forklift and carried out the exact same maneouvre as the legless victim - intent on proving that the forklift driver was simply negligent, and Cat owed him nothing.

Unbelievably, the Cat forklift the Cat manager was driving, rolled in exactly the same manner as previously - and the manager was thrown off, and the forklift landed on him, resulting in the Cat manager also losing both his legs!

Needless to say, Cat settled out of court with the victim for an undisclosed sum, and set about making their forklifts safer.

You will never hear this story publically, it took a lot of digging on my part to find this story, and Cat have tried to cover this story up, at every opportunity.

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Consider the motorcycle helmet, that saved the life of the rider, only to leave him (usually a him) a quadriplegic, bed ridden, dependent on others for every second of the rest of his life - what now is the  cost to the health system? and his quality of life?

Now consider no helmet - what cost might there be if he had died on the spot - I  don't have the answer but would speculate, pocket change, compared with the former scenario

I've never heard so much rubbish in all my life. How many people wearing helmets in a crash have ended up in this state, compared to people who didn't wear helmets, ending up in this state?

This is pure American extreme right-wing "sovereign citizen" BS, full of faulty logic, and "backs to the wall" and "preppers", anti-Govt, "Big Brother" paranoia.

If wearing helmets increased risk, then no astronaut, no fighter pilot, nor any race car driver would wear one. The stats showed long ago that wearing helmets saved thousands of lives and billions in trauma, medical and legal costs.

No-one has ever brought or won a lawsuit whereby they claimed or won a judgement, that wearing a helmet caused them increased injury in a crash. 

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politley ask my gorgeous, stunning, love of my life what she weighed that morning...

You truly do enjoy living a dangerous life, don't you?!

....and Albo said, "Deal Done!! The Government will pay for it anyway, when I include it under 'necessary items' in the Defence Budget".

"Whoa!", cried Peter Dutton, are these 'necessary items' going to our friends in the Ukraine, or for some other necessary purpose?"

"I can't tell you that", said Albo, "That's classed as confidential Defence secrets, and if I give out the information publically, I'll be..........

OME - One B.D. Linard features in two photos of RAAF 102 Pilots School Course graduation, Aug 1977 - May 1978.

https://www.radschool.org.au/Course Photos/Pilots/102Pilots.htm

https://www.radschool.org.au/

However, there is no further detail available, and he doesn't appear to be a member of the RAAF RadSchool Association. Perhaps an inquiry to the Association may produce something, there is a contact page on their website.

.......Emperor of Darraweit Guim, who goes by the handle of CT9000 in the NES. CT ran away with the credit card, chuckling his evil laugh, as he yelled, "I've got the ability now to decimate DG rabbits on a scale the world has never seen!".

With that, CT ran into the nearest firearms store, and waving the gold credit card, ordered enough weaponry to turn DG into another Bakhmut. "I'll show the world what I can do with unlimited firearms funding!" he cried, as he.........

Qantas came very close to destroying their superb flight record when one of their Super Constellations crashed on takeoff at Mauritius in 1960 after No. 3 engine failed substantially on takeoff.

The crew rejected the takeoff but were unable to stop before the end of the runway, and crashed into a ravine. With the full fuel load, the Constellation caught fire and burnt out, thus making the crash investigation more difficult.

Of the 50 pax, 20 were slightly injured, including a hostess who suffered a broken leg.

https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-lockheed-l-1049g-super-constellation-port-louis#:~:text=Circumstances%3A,three suffered a technical failure.

Walrus - Yes, I got that part about the DeltaHawk design and design principles being mechanical fuel injection and for simplicity/reliability. But the bottom line is that electronically-controlled common rail diesel fuel injection, with piezo injectors, is a highly efficient, mature and reliable arrangement, that is used on virtually every current model diesel engine, and there's no real reason why the system can't be used on a new design aircraft engine.

Even the major aircraft engine manufacturers are now turning to FADEC controls on their latest engines - they simply need to be dragged out of the dark ages of 1930's engine design that they won't let go of, and embrace the fact that modern electronic controls are highly reliable, if properly designed, properly installed, and properly maintained.

Skippy - Because the supercharger is simply necessary to scavenge the combustion chambers - but the turbocharger is there to improve the power level and efficiency, by utilising the waste exhaust gases. Two different accessories with different jobs to do. 

It's all about maximising the power output for the engine size/weight. The more air (oxygen) you can pump into a diesel, the more power you get, it's really that simple. And with more air available, you can ramp up the level of fuel delivery by way of injecting more diesel on each injection stroke. In addition, turbochargers utilise the energy in exhaust gas flow that is otherwise simply wasted.

Furthermore, the hotter the exhaust gas temperature, the more efficient a turbocharger becomes, as the exhaust gases expand, and this drives the turbo faster.

One of the things that surprised me about the DeltaHawk engine is that they're not utilising staggered injection pulses. This system is common on many diesels today, and it reduces diesel "rattle" and "knock", improves fuel economy, and it is reliable, despite using electronics to govern the number of injection pulses. 

General Motors fitted turbochargers to their 2 stroke supercharged GM Diesel in the early 1960's. The GM nomenclature for the engine models was 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 24 for the number of cylinders, "V" for Vee engines, "53", "71" or "92" for the cylinder size in cubic inches, and the last letter was either "N" for Naturally Aspirated, or "T" for turbocharged. So, a turbocharged 71 series V8 GM diesel was referred to as an "8V-71T". Around 1967, the GM Diesel became the Detroit Diesel.

The history of GM's 2 stroke diesel engines -

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/truck-history-1939-gmc-first-year-for-the-legendary-jimmy-detroit-diesel-its-still-being-built-85-years-later/

And of course ... only in America - a V16, 2 stroke, 71 series turbocharged Detroit Diesel engine producing 875HP, installed in a homebuilt hotrod.

.....and a few more big holes wouldn't make any difference to DG, as it was already regularly referred to as, "that great hole!"

Meantimes, brows became furrowed as CT mentioned "gelly". "Oh, good, I'm fond of jelly, especially with icecream", said Cappy.

"Not that kind of jelly, I'm talking about Gelly! - the stuff that goes BOOM!! "Where do you get gelly today?", said OT with a furrowed brow.

"They haven't made gelignite for 20 years, ever since ANFO took over in blasting". "Oh well", said CT, "we'll just use a bag of ANFO instead!"

"Isn't that getting a little radical, just to bump off a few bunnies?, said OT. "After, these are just furry little lovable creatures, adored by young children - and if it became widely known that you were a regular rabbit-murderer on a large scale, you could become.........

Ohhh!! ... the noise!! ... my ears!!!  Notice how no-one - especially the DH manufacturing people - have even made a passing reference to the engine noise!!  The Detroit Diesel of aviation!!

You'll need double levels of insulation, double-layers of window polycarbonate - and the "aircraft noise" whiners on the ground, will have a whole new major level of opposition!!

In addition, I didn't notice anyone asking about the cabin heat levels associated with having a glowing cherry-red turbocharger mounted right against your firewall!! Double levels of heat insulation needed, too!!

.....along, carrying a 1790's muzzle-loading flintlock (colloquially known as "Brown Bess") that had belonged to his Great Great Great Great Grandpa, Lt Josiah Cook, who was a famous veteran of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1796-1808.

Cappy had pulled this famous firearm down from the mantlepiece where it had been stored since the end of the Anglo-Spanish War - but unfortunately, thanks to Cappys careless handling of this fine piece of British weaponry, he'd dropped it on the big toe of his left foot.

This was the simple reason for Cappy's limp - it had nothing to do with CT's, DG warring activities against the rabbits, and it certainly wasn't as a result of an enraged rabbit attack, as Cappy was claiming it to be.

As the ragged group approached the Ground Staff of DG International, there was a commotion. Several of the Ground Staff had stopped the leaders of the group, and asked to sight their ASIC cards. There was suddenly some quick movement at the front of the group, and a..........

....it was time to organise the Great DG Fly-In and Aerial Rabbit Shoot, with every entrant entitled to take and use any WW1 ex-Govt Disposals firearm of their choice, from CT's vast stocks.

The word got around like wildfire, as everyone and their dog wanted to be a real cowboy, and shoot up stuff from aircraft at low level, just like in the movies.

Plus, seeing as CT was organising the whole show, any problems with local opposition on the ground, or aviation authorities - and even the rabbits - would be entirely in CT's lap, and he'd have to.............

This one? ...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/36°06'15.1"S+149°04'24.7"E/@-36.1041883,149.0735318,903m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d-36.1041883!4d149.0735318

It looks like a private farm strip, in the middle of the farm.

Jerry, what I was referring to, was the media calling every crashed aircraft a Cessna, regardless of the actual make or style of construction.

But at least it was a Cessna.