Recent content by onetrack

The site below is a helicopter website, but it's a pretty useful page to keep potential refuelling problems uppermost in your mind. Note that the story of the helicopter pilot getting burnt by a fuel explosion says, "as the alligator clips came off the battery terminals, they touched, and...

Skippy, you may have been using a Holley vane-type fuel delivery pump successfully for 5 years - but all I'm saying is, that your connections to the Holley pump are not explosion-proof, not certified for pumping petrol, don't meet any Australian Standard for petrol-pumping equipment - and you...

Synthetic clothing is the greatest static-producer you can get, Watch these people set their cars alight by jumping in and out of the seat whilst refuelling (videos follow on).

The oil companies/refiners are your best guide to fuel use. Avgas and Mogas keep their fuelling abilities satisfactorily, if stored in air-tight containers - for months. However, if there is any ability for air to enter the fuel container, there is an ability for the volatile components of the...

In 1975, I watched the Mobil bulk fuel depot in Norseman, W.A. burn completely to the ground - multiple bulk tanks, buildings, the lot. The cause? The depot had a fuel bowser inside the compound that was available to the public for fuel purchases for road vehicles. One traveller pulled in with...

You can utilise an electric automotive fuel pump, but the connections you install are the critical area. A properly-designed petrol pump is totally flameproof. Arcing at connection points is a real threat. No "consumer level" electric pump is designed for pumping petrol, they all specify "diesel...

Well done, Captain Mollison of Long Tan fame - and kudos on completing an aircraft kit build, and going flying in it, at age 86! You're an inspiration to us young 'uns...

The bloke needs to be employed on a prime contract by the ADF to advise on how to reduce the costs of defeating terrorists and insurgents - who run their Wars at little cost, while they ensure their Western Crusader enemies go bankrupt spending multiple hundreds of billions on high-tech...

Whoa, that poor little neglected beast would be a prime depository for nests of rats and their destructive antics, wasps blocking orifices, bird poop (highly corrosive), and corrosion from fertiliser dust. You'd want to examine every square mm of the machine and every single component in it...

Eightyknots - Finding information on any website is better done using Google Search. Google's Search algorithms are the best around, they beat every websites own search engine, hands-down. Just type into Google Search, "recreational flying: xxxxxxxxx", where "xxxxxxxxxx" is the subject you're...

These are the people to talk to ... https://www.megasorber.com/

I found a rare Wartime ad for the W&J-built Caterpillar grader, from the Bulletin, dated July 21, 1943. It was rare to see this equipment advertised during WW2, because all Caterpillar Grader production in that period went directly to the Military. So, I expect the ad was probably allowed...

The Americans were on a war footing in 1940. They were building new military aerodromes by the dozen, in that year. Many U.S. military leaders, and quite a few U.S. politicians were warning of a coming War with Japan in the late 1930's. There was substantial funding allocated to military...

Mike, the greenhouse supplier link has already been posted in post #7.

Blackhawk799 - Rather than fork out a large sum for a LAME to inspect the aircraft in the NT - and then end up losing that whole amount, when the aircraft turns out to be a pile of junk - can you find someone in the NT who is a pilot/kitbuilder or with adequate aviation experience, to give you...