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.......only being found when they were coaxed out with the smell of freshly-cooked Sushi from a Turbine Zushibento Food Truck (and yes, Zushibento Food Truck licences are now available from Turbine Corp at a very modest cost).

It was one of these holdout Zero pilots (Saki) who handed himself in on Nikumaroro in 2012, after surviving for 70 years just on fish and other marine animals. When he ceremoniously handed himself in, he was expecting to be beheaded for not dying for the Emperor. But his rescue party told him that wasn't necessary, as Hirohito was dead, and the Americans now owned most of Japan, anyway.

Saki became depressed at this news, and wondered why he'd even bothered to hand himself in. Then he remembered it was because he was now too old to fly, and besides his pilots licence had expired in 1946. But his rescuers were seeking more important information. What had happened to his Zero? Was it still salvageable? "Salvageable??" said Saki, drawing himself up to his full 5' 1" height.

"It is not just salvageable, it's in pristine condition, because I took great care of it these last 70 years, and the Emperor told us to value every Zero as if it was the.............

Spacey, 5 US gallons isn't 20 litres, it's 18.972 litres. 1 US gallon - 3.785 litres.

You're getting ahead of yourself, rgmwa - the fly-in date was moved to this coming Saturday, the 20th May.

Weather is looking good, OME, even if it is going to be a little chilly in the early morning.

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The aircraft graveyard is not exactly a "wreckers yard". Everything in the aircraft graveyard is carefully protected, unlike "wreckers" where stuff stops where it drops, and gorillas with big shifters rip off the parts you want.

Plus, it's all unprotected out in the weather, and they forklift vehicles around without a great deal of care.

Or Robbie heard the gear warning, and just said, "What's that noise?", while he continued to let down ....

I reckon Robbie Katter must be overdue for a pilot proficiency check. Being forgetful as a pilot is a recipe for a short lifespan.

Weight would be a big issue for transmission lines strung long distances between pylons, so aluminium instead of copper would be a no-brainer there.

However, aluminium is used extensively in house wiring in the U.S., and they have continual problems with aluminium wiring corrosion and oxidation in houses there.

https://www.angi.com/articles/aluminum-wiring-safe.htm

In my experience with a lot of automotive, mobile plant, and equipment wiring, fine strand copper wiring, properly protected via sealing from oxidation/corrosion, is the most satisfactory type of starter cable. It has excellent current-carrying capacity, and the necessary flexibility to resist fracture caused by regular engine movement.

.....Nanking. "Hold on", said OT, "I'm getting a bit sick of this exaggerated fake Japanese accent - even Turbo and Cappy have started speaking like it, now! Real Japanese don't talk like that, what is your actual ancestry, anyway?"

"Oh, sorry", said Nob. "It was all Cappys fault, he reckoned I would come over better as a bitter enemy, if I spoke just like all the Japs spoke in WW2 propaganda. As to my actual ancestry, I was was born within earshot of the Kapooka Rifle Range, so that doesn't really make me a Jap at all, does it? And I got these slanted eyes from when I was doing.......

I don't think "wreckers", and "aviation safety", are two words you would really want to see in the same sentence.

Ryanair will charge extra if you stay conscious.

....were the Original Bush Mechanics, before those other unknown TV "stars" stole their title and gave away their repair secrets. It wasn't widely known, either, that One Emu Track, Morton and Macca Macca had recovered a crashed and abandoned G.A.S. Cessna 310 from the bush, and had got it airworthy again with parts taken from AU Falcons, HR Holdens, and even VS Commodores - thus beating those smart-a*** Africans hands-down, who all reckoned they could build their own aircraft using scrap steel and aluminium, and using surplus Honda GX390's stolen from Govt cement mixers.

But the problem of course, was that neither One Emu Track, Morton or Macca Macca had Cessna 310 endorsements, so they had to find someone who was qualified on the 310. Accordingly, they passed the word around the bush telegraph, and lo and behold, who should turn up, but.........

.....said, "you blokes haven't seen anything like radicalised, until you've seen a bunch of West Australian bogans denied their Ugg boots, KFC and Maccas, burnouts, and hotted-up VS Commodores. They make the Taliban and Tom Starcevich look like pussycats, as they go on the warpath, demanding their proper bogan entitlements and ..........

Gee Marty, now you've stuffed up the design to stop you from fitting the radiator, the solution's obvious! - you're going to have to swap the Rotax for an air-cooled engine! 

Old K - If you use Google Search, prefacing your search with "Recreational Flying:", and then the search term, you will always get a better search result than any site search feature - because Google's algorithms beat everything else, hands down.

He meant to reply to Spacey, Skippy.

As I said, the ATO are a law unto themselves, same as CASA. There is no accountability, fairness or justice when you are faced with an adverse administrative decision, from these huge Govt organisations.

Once you start moving at more than about 40kmh - in anything with a cabin - the cabin develops negative pressure and fumes can seep in via any opening.

Planey, there's nothing on that FB page link, despite my logging in as requested.

You won't win against the ATO if they are intent on winning. Small amounts, you may win - but in the brothers case, we reckoned the ATO had reversed their rebate opinion for possibly another 50 or 100 companies, and they were intent on winning his case, as it then set the precedent to win against all the other companies, as regards the reversing of their interpretation of the rebate conditions.

Be very careful about trying to claim back this fuel excise - because even if you get a ruling from the ATO that you can claim it back, the ATO can reverse its decision years down the track, and insist you weren't entitled to the rebate, and any rebates must all be repaid.

My elder brother ran an operation loading iron ore into ships from storage sheds on the wharf with big front end loaders. He was advised by the ATO that he was entitled to claim the fuel rebate.

7 years later, the ATO sent him a letter and told him they'd made a mistake in applying the rebate, and he had to repay 7 years of fuel rebate that he wasn't entitled to claim - around $800,000 (these were big front end loaders).

The ATO simply stated that they had reviewed his position and decided that his work was not part of any "mining operations" as described in the Act.

He fought them relentlessly through every avenue available to him, ending up in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal - spending $300,000 on legal advice in the process. The AAT simply rubber-stamped the ATO's decision and he had to repay the $800,000. This bankrupted him.

There is no ability to reverse an ATO decision. Even if you present a ruling saying you were told a certain interpretation applied to the relevant Act, the ATO will simply say the person who gave you the ruling made an error in interpreting the relevant Act.

The ATO are a law unto themselves, and there is no fairness in any of their decision-making. Tribunals rubber stamp the ATO's decisions, because the Tribunals are run by senior public servants.

I fail to understand how the ATO can claim money back after 7 years, when most tax records are only generally required to be kept for 5 years.

The biggest single reason why a website is found quickly, is when Google Search starts supporting it. If you don't get that support from Google, you might as well be under a rock.

.....asked CTA 2000 if he'd nailed any rabbits lately. CTA 2000's answer was a burst from his AK-47, and Cappy saw 13 rabbits, 3 foxes, 2 cats, a mangy Afghan dog, and a weedy camel, all chuck handsprings and squirt blood out of ears, eyes, noses and various other holes in their carcasses.

Not only that, but 14 tyres went flat on nearby vehicles, and 133 Afghan peasants all dived for cover under anything they could find. Cappy was impressed, here was a bloke who could certainly.............

.....the smell was even worse, what with the camel dung, the ether fumes, the heroin traces, the body and clothing odours - and of course, the soiled trousers smells, because no-one was prepared to step out for a toilet break, for fear of losing their......

Maybe you could make "Pillaging the Pillaga" into a "Find the Yowie" hunt? Aerial searching from multiple aircraft, should soon flush them out! 

I've been to Baradine and the Pillaga! - and even lived for a week in the farmhouse ("Cumberdeen") that belonged to the famous Eric Rolls! - the farmer/naturalist/writer, who wrote the book, "A Million Wild Acres", about the Pillaga Scrub that adjoined his farm. It's a fascinating place. The BIL was renting the farmhouse at the time (1994), and we stayed with him while we were touring the Eastern States.

Eric Rolls died in Oct 2007, and unfortunately, it appears the Cumberdeen farmhouse is now abandoned and derelict.

https://insidestory.org.au/golden-disobedience-the-history-of-eric-rolls/

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