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  1. Did that -answer is (drumroll) Last seen at Palau Perak WEST of Penang in the North exit of the Malacca Strait at 0240 - Rodzali Daud RMAF Presumably the Orions called first hence their activities
  2. Remember that part of the population in Xinjiang is non-han. In Urumchi in 94 maybe 5% of the population could pass for southern european and some had blond hair/blue eyes. It appears that the two in question were codeshare and booked on a chinese airline.
  3. Asiana Pix - from 98 http://www.aviationpics.de/ramp/alaska/alaska.htm Commentry is a bit cynical and some may call it racist Just into Anchorage and looking at all the Korean debris on the airfield. What a beautiful job the Asiana boy did in his 747-400. Asiana is KAL's "opposition" company, also run by the military cronies. Pranged in Anchorage trying to do a "U" turn in a parking bay... in a 747-400???? Poor Aeroflot was in the way though, minding his business, parked at the gate with passengers on board. Asiana thumped his # 1 engine against Aeroflot's wing and tore open the engine cowling and fuel lines on the 747, pissing fuel all over the apron. With standard Korean procedure, that calls for more power so you can get out of the way and hope nobody saw! This he did, but it was icy as hell on the ramp. The skid started and took out 2 Evergreen staff vehicles sending the occupants fleeing for cover. THE CIRCUS HAD BEGUN! Still more power and he put his left wing (last 15-20 feet) into the vertical stab of the IL62 and cut into the tail about 15 feet. When he reached the main spar of the vertical stab... the 747 stopped... you guessed it..... MORE POWER!!! I think he thought there was still time to run for it but he didn't seem to be going anywhere.......SO..........MORE POWER!!!!!!!!!!!! In trying to escape the grips of the Russian aircraft, he managed to reach take-off thrust, and in so doing, put a bunch of containers behind the aircraft through the terminal building and trashed it. Heard NCA got it in the clamps, the Japanese must be pleased about that! Still no shutdown or evacuation (fuel still pissing everywhere over the apron from the 747 #1 engine) The Yank ground mechanics finally managed to run over and told them to shut the aircraft down but the crew were busy writing a report for management to apportion the blame. After the entertainment ended, spoke to our crew driver and she said the two (ground) vehicles he hit during his exhibition were badly trashed. The Asiana aircraft is looking quite sad. Took all day yesterday to separate the two aircraft and in desperation, the mechanics finally had to cut about 20 feet of the Asiana left wing off to get the aircraft apart. Talk about "dog lock"! The engine is off and the cowlings are all torn open. The opposition (Aeroflot) was taking cover in the hangar...Good idea! Well, not to be outdone, KAL landed a 747 freighter the very next day on the runway lights on 6R!!! Lights, tyres, stuff everywhere.... you know the rest. Ah yes, another boring day in aviation! Y'awl be careful out there!!!!
  4. Sort of: Each character has a base (the radical 217 of those) so is in order of number of strokes in the radical followed by total number of extra strokes. The first character is the surname and there are only about 100 of those so many pages of Wang. similar for the next two characters of the name then address etc. Dictionaries typically have indexes with radical order, total number of strokes and sound then look up the number.
  5. You would get pretty hungry - that "super" stuff that gets spread on farms is superphosphate. Plants don't grow without phosphorus.
  6. Phil Think I remember you, I'm John Campbell the guy with DTC on the line 74-5 before Alan Baskett made me an offer I couldn't refuse so did CPL with Speedair at EN. Used to fly Scouts through until 79 with Dick Humphrey and socialised most Sunday nights (often bought Beef Stroganoff) People you may remember (caution AFAIK) Bill Campbell Hicks - Retired 75 to Gippsland Lakes, in 91 stubbed toe infected and seeing the quack a week later was too late COL (Not LT COL) Keith and Elsa as mentioned Bronwyn Married kids not flying John Zmood looking at getting back into the air David Hooten (father aerodynamicist at CAC/GAF?) finally passed CPL aerodynamics on something like the 40th! attempt still in GA Didn't fly for 18 years until 2000 and don't see the BWK crew around much Edited to add Squirrel (sparrow) I got into taxi, driver is semi-conscious "uh where to" "some dark alley where I can take your money" that got his attention so back to my place to force fed him coffee to a caffeine OD point then back on the road.
  7. Last saw him late 80's driving a taxi. Heard he was doing avionics in Sydney about 10 years back.
  8. Looking on the D=Motor site the there is a French document which appears to be a list of engines (including a D-motor) which are approved for a particular categories of light aicraft. Not sure what the approval is for but it doesn't include Rotax, Lycoming or Continental. The D-motor site refers to registration not certification and it doesn't mention certification.
  9. CASA will have a copy of your last "application for pilots license" which has (had?) hrs in various categories dual,solo,cross country etc on it and will supply a copy
  10. 406 transmits who immeadiately then every 50 seconds. If GPS then who and where after GPS has a fix (few minutes). If no GPS then 406 fix to a few km after a few satellite passes (hours). A weak 121.5 signal is transmitted for homing with all the problems of homing in a hilly forested area. If single transmission then not much to go on.
  11. Rapid burning of powder (the gun) followed by a (non chemical) rapid heating ie explosion. Nagasaki was detonation (the explosive lenses) followed by a (non chemical) rapid heating ie explosion.
  12. Actually So like Jetstar (or Jetstar Vietnam?)
  13. No - the cost of tracking down a PLB is much less than a search. In the case we are discussing, guess few K for a chopper to scene; at least that for a Citation (as previously mentioned) for a radio search usually followed by the cavalry. Long history in aviation,-If you go down we will go after you- make it easy even if the Government pays.
  14. Spec is actually 35km. The limit can be reduced by the carrier ( and varied by direction) hence the situation where GSM doesn't work until about 100m before the speed restriction starts.
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