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    Guess This Aircraft ?

    in AUS/NZ General Discussion

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    Found another weird one today, not exactly light though! Given that canard is French for duck, is this thing a lame duck or a dead duck?[ATTACH=full]62030[/ATTACH]

    I took a pic of this aircraft at Coffs Harbour with rego METAL, looked it up and found it to be morrocan rego. Quite sleek up close, my son loved it as one of his computer games has it as an option to fly.

     

     

    AirVenture car parking

    in Trips/Events/Seats

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    We pay that much each day we park at our local airport every day of the week. Is the money going to a cause or just council coffers. Donated to a good cause like drought aid or lions clubs etc is not a bad thing. Maybe the strawberry farmers to make up for the damage done by a small bunch of losers.

     

     

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    RA Aus and landing fees

    in AUS/NZ General Discussion

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    There is a good letter to the editor of last issue of AOPA pilot magazine, from an operator of a private field in response to the previous article on avoiding charging airports. There are always costs in operating anything nowadays. A fair fee to everyone is far better than not having nowhere to land.

     

     

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    Polycarbonate screen damage

    in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents

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    I recently recieved a bulliten about plastic windows in Caravans from one supplier. We were seeing an increase in warranty claims for crazing around the mounting and lock points. Turns out the solvents in a lot of cleaners are bad for plastics. Recommended using specialist cleaners like Vuplex or plain old warm water and mild dishwashing soap. I immediately took the windex out of my travel tool bag and swapped it to Vuplex and microfibre for the windshield.

     

     

    DooMaw - building a STOL

    in Aircraft Building and Design Discussion

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    Thanks ClintonB, it's always been my hope that I might occasionally be an inspiration for people with anything aviation related.Sorry to hear about the Bushbaby, I didn't know you had one damaged. If there's anything we can do to help, feel free to ask ...

    Hi HITC,

    It’s probably not broken, just lustful eyes looking when I bought my first airplane not noticing all the faults and deficiencies. There were lots of worn bushes, and horrible little hardware store bolts everywhere, and things like 5 hinges in a row with none on the same angle.

     

    With some help it is getting better and safer. Time is the hardest thing to find( plus very cool in the shed this time of year at night).

     

    I will have another push at it before the end of year. It has only 270 odd hours on it and I am halfway there on the fixing, only 60% to go as they say.

     

    Cheers

     

     

    Not how to land ...

    in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents

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    I thought an example of what not to do lucky not to stall during the go around. After rotation stay in ground effect till some speed is built up.

    Lucky to have a high lift wing in that machine. Those swerves both ways made me cringe just watching at that speed. Does that pole at the end have wires, he displaced threshold suggests an obstacle at that end.

     

     

    Demise of the Australian Aviation Museum, Bankstown

    in Warbirds, Vintage and Classic Aircraft

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    In the course of my business I visited the Australian Aviation Museum at Bankstown on the weekend. It was a heartbreaking experience.

     

    The Australian Aviation Museum was opened by the then Prime Minister the Hon. Paul Keating in February, 1994. Now the lease for the site is coming to an end. The current airport leaseholder has great plans for the site. Unfortunately the plans don't involve anything aviation related.

     

    We’re for Sydney | Daily Telegraph

     

    Many people have put hundreds of volunteer hours into building the existing museum, collecting exhibits, creating displays, preserving artifacts and aviation related written material, and restoring and maintaining items of distinctive Australian aviation ingenuity.

     

    During my visit, I saw packed cardboard boxes labelled with the origin of the contents, Empty display cases awaiting the movers. Aircraft and engines; dressed display dummies standing forlornly in platoons awaiting the "Quick march!". Outside you could hear the fuselages of aircraft corroding in the winter sun.

     

    But!, you say, The museum is moving to Camden.

     

    We’re for Sydney | Daily Telegraph

     

    Well, that was what Sydney Metro Airports promised back in 2015. A new building was going to be constructed at Camden Airport; the museum collection was going to be moved; God would be in His Heaven, and all would be right with the world.

     

    However, from the song by Dionne Warwick

     

    Oh, promises, their kind of promises, can just destroy a life

     

    Oh, promises, those kind of promises, take all the joy from life

     

     

    Preservation of a bit of Australian heritage comes a poor second to $14 million per year rent form a business estate.

    So no one has learnt from mishaps where airplanes end up in shopping centres. The less land around runways means that it is harder to make emergency landings when engines quit/break unexpectedly, without ending on top of the public. Wasn’t this why airports have normally had space around them. Only thing is more likely developers get their way and the airport closes.☹️

     

     

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