The Never Ending Story

[turboplanner]

".........New Guinea blood, you are still a Papuan or Torres Strait Islander."

Namatjira Turbine had bought the Island of Saibai  in the 1950s for ten bucks after he slipped a dozen Coopers to the Port Moresby Australian Head of Mission, Jack Schitt.

 

Saibai Island located 3.715 km from the New Guinea coast is in International waters. When costs started to rise Nam did a deal with Queensland which drew a line around it and called it Australian. The Commonwealth chipped in and built an International Airport wich is leased by Nam's son Non on a 99 year lease. He's currently in the process of building a DFO with tenants such as Costco already signed up.

 

As astute NES readers might realise, anyone wanting to bring exotic product into Australia just had to fly in to Saibai Airport, walk past the empty Customs desk, sign themselve in and then make a local flight to the Australian Mainland. In fact Non is in the process of negotiating a Belts and Roads programme for an elevated highway running from PNG to Australia over Saibai.

 

Nam was behind the design of the Torres Strait Island flag featuring the rear end of a bull with a star shaped sac. It was done for a joke because Torres Strait Islanders never considered themselves Aboriginal and their DNA shows Papuan origin, not Aboriginal, but he spent most of his later days searching the net to see how far the BullFlag went, and often got a chuckle to see it flying at places like the Tarpeena Shire Council offices, and his people mentioned as the First People, Custodians and Traditional owners of the Council site, despite there never being a record of any TSI person ever setting foot in Tarpeena.

 

Non Turbine had been impressed by Marky Mark's skilled  handling of the Covid crisis, albeit just repeating over and over again to any Easterners "XXXX off, XXXXoff, XXXX off""

 

Now with this latest statement, Non acted, copyrighting a  Saibai flag featuring the front and of a bull with a bird of Paradise on it's horns.

 

Saibai today flies the Australian Flag, Torres Strait Island bull rear end, Saibai Island bull front end and Papua New Guinea flag.

 

The names on the map were a good start, but now he could collect from both Australia and PNG governments.

 

There was only one cloud on the horizon................................

 

 

 

 

[Captain]

..... and that was .....

 

Poor old Crappy is too tired to respond loquaciously after reading all that ...... and his head hurts.

Edited October 1, 2023 by Captain

[turboplanner]

...the hangar Non had built to house his ........................................

[Captain]

1 hour ago, turboplanner said:

...the hangar Non had built to house his ........................................

..... Electric Drifter, which have a usability issue when out in the sticks living like the ancestors.

 

"I snapped it up because I thought that they said that it was an "Eclectic Drifter" and I was looking for a collector's item to hide some kickback cash (please don't judge me harshly, as we all do it up here) that I received from .....

Edited October 1, 2023 by Captain

[turboplanner]

..........Wing Dan for 'special services' ".

This made the news a couple of days later, not because of any corruption, but because it was another Electric Drifter that had started a fire. What with birning EVs on the streets, burning E-Scooters on the footpaths, burning trucks on the highways, burning  E-Vacuum cleaners in Lounge rooms it was getting hard to find an unscarred neighbourhood anywhere in the world. The CO2 cloud these days was visible, and people strated talking about legislation to bring CO2 back to where it was in the old days of the V8 supercar.

CT was sitting quietly in front of a stump, Sako in his arms, waiting for a bunny to lift its head. From the forest came a strange grinding noise ...................

[onetrack]

...., a sound that made CT sit bolt upright. He would know that sound anywhere. It was the sound of a worn-out Bluehead Rotax starter, and he knew straight away from that horrible sound, that the starter was poleing out - which sound was music to his ears.

 

Ever since he'd started (no pun intended) his major electrical repair shop at DG International Airport (specialising in ripping off aviators for minor electrical repairs (regularly repeating the company advertising line, that went, "we can't be too safe in the skies, can we?"), CT gloated whenever he heard an electrical fault of any kind.

 

There was no getting away from his money-grubbing grasp, there wasn't an electrical repairer with 100kms of DG International that had the skills, the parts, the servicing ability, that CT had.

 

He'd started in the electrical business at age 5, tearing cranky Morris Minor starters apart, then telling the owners the starter was buggered (of course it was, once CT had got to it), and they were up for a new one. And of course, CT always just happened to have a new Morry Minor starter on hand.

 

Then came the fateful day when one particular Morry Minor owner turned nasty at the news that a new Morry Minor starter was $450 from CT's shop, and this sent the Morry Minor owner into a rage, whereby CT suddenly realised that.........

[Captain]

1 hour ago, onetrack said:

 

Then came the fateful day when one particular Morry Minor owner turned nasty at the news that a new Morry Minor starter was $450 from CT's shop, and this sent the Morry Minor owner into a rage, whereby CT suddenly realised that.........

..... the Morry Minor Car Club had been taken over by ex'Hells Angel's who enjoyed 3 bearing crankshaft and 1000 cc British technology that was an advance on their Harleys.

 

The Morry drivers put on their 1%er jackets and drove en-mass to CTs workshop (this time only 25% of them broke down) and once there they called on ....

Edited October 2, 2023 by Captain

[turboplanner]

..........CT to find a way to make MM starter motors for $30.00.

CT went straight to the Coles DG Supermarket and liquor store and bought himself a dozen flagons of the cheapest wine he could get. The sales assistant sensed there was something wrong and CT burst into tears and told him about the started motors. "That's an opportunity" said the sales assistant. "We call them "Loss Leaders" and we just mark up everything else to compensate."

So CT started advertising Morris Minor starter motors for $29.95, customers poured in and he soon had to expand his workshop, buying the complete Hangar.

Not many people know it was CT from DG who started the Airport DFO business. He sold out to Dick Smith and Dick started his franchises out of the DG Hangar. It was here that Dick developed his love for aviation and became a pilot who succeeded in flying a helicopter around the world. Before that he was a nerd.

The Bluehead continued rattling and was soon down on the ground headed for CT's emporium where .............

[Captain]

..... having heard the blue-head coming, CT did a spoonful and .....

 

 

it s little known that it was CT that taught Dick how to fly (avref) and turned him into the brave swashbuckling non-nerdy flyboy that he is. 

Edited October 2, 2023 by Captain

[bull]

5 hours ago, Captain said:

..... having heard the blue-head coming, CT did a spoonful and .....

 

 

it s little known that it was CT that taught Dick how to fly (avref) and turned him into the brave swashbuckling non-nerdy flyboy that he is. 

..and bolted for the...........                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [As an aside to a few posts ago about Saibai island and the bull flag,,well that relates to the time Bull was skippering a 55 ft trawler with a trusty old gardner main engine and was trawling for prawns between Saibai Island and Daru Island in PNG.  Now one night he  caught 600kg,s of painted crayfish in 2 hours and the locals where not happy... !

! but that's another story for another time...lol]

Edited October 2, 2023 by bull

[Captain]

29 minutes ago, bull said:

..and bolted for the .....

..... bomb shelter disguised as rabbit warren #64, where he .....

Edited October 2, 2023 by Captain

[CT9000]

......made up an adapter plate to fit the newly reco (painted) delco remy starter off the 350 cummins. Possibly with little effect on the W&B

but upping the Drifter power some what.......

[turboplanner]

...spoiled the soggy flying effect that Drifter pilots loved, and flying backwards in a head wind was a hoot, or just dropping out of the ...................

[Captain]

9 hours ago, turboplanner said:

...spoiled the soggy flying effect that Drifter pilots loved, and flying backwards in a head wind was a hoot, or just dropping out of the ...................

.... sky (avref) unannounced at a STOL competition and winning it with a minus 10 metre measurement ..... and the biggest issue then being not to plough backwards thru the airport boundary fence.

 

Such landings while flying backwards in a 10 kt breeze, nea zephyr, meant that the tail wheel needed to be .....

 

 

Crappy hopes that Planey is happy that the NES is now 100% serious aviation (avref) related for at least this 1 post.

Edited October 3, 2023 by Captain

[turboplanner]

.......off the ground and this required hours of training developing the necessary skills (TailWheelFree Training (c) TurbineAviation Academy, Inc), but once mastered this added an extra option to the Flight Bag.

 

You could come in hot, yet .............

[CT9000]

......still use a vertical landing, not like them whirly bird chickens that like to have a bit of foward speed...... 

[Captain]

..... so the backwards flying Electric Drifter started to take sales from the Gyroplane market, and Airbus were so worried about their Eurocopter subsidiary that they looked at hiving it off to Turbine Industries (one of the few firms with sufficient resources, and a cashflow large enough, to handle the hiatus in chopper sales).

 

Turbo was confident, yet .......

[turboplanner]

.......cautious. He'd dealt with Europeans before and knew they were like moths; enthusiastically going off in the right direction, then instantly reversing while pointing the blame at the benefactors. A good smack in the teeth usually settled them down again, but you couldn't trust them. 

 

So he .........

Edited October 4, 2023 by turboplanner

[bull]

3 hours ago, turboplanner said:

.......cautious. He'd dealt with Europeans before and knew they were like moths; enthusiastically going off in the right direction, then instantly reversing while pointing the blame at the benefactors. A good smack in the teeth usually settled them down again, but you couldn't trust them. 

 

So he .........

....took out an insurance policy and contacted.......................

[Captain]

12 minutes ago, bull said:

....took out an insurance policy and contacted.......................

.... Turbine Insurance, Tribunals and Actuarial Services (TITEARSES), who ....

Edited October 4, 2023 by Captain

[turboplanner]

......specialised in what looked like a very risky business, but they also sold to the people who fought with the Europeans so no matter who lost, the Turbine Group won until .....

[Captain]

2 hours ago, turboplanner said:

......specialised in what looked like a very risky business, but they also sold to the people who fought with the Europeans so no matter who lost, the Turbine Group won until .....

.... a few Electric Drifter Product Indemnity Claims started to show up in the ......

[onetrack]

.......6:00PM Channel Nine News headlines. Then were the fire reports from the Firies. Oh, the Fires!! The Fires!! There were e-Drifters on fire behind every second house, it seemed, according to the Firies. Pretty soon, new Fire legislation was initiated to forestall e-Drifters initiating massive fires. All e-Drifters had to be parked no closer than 30 metres to any flammable material, any building, any airport hangar, any..........

[Captain]

... grass or other fibrous substance, like .....

[Captain]

11 hours ago, onetrack said:

the Firies. Oh, the Fires!! The Fires!!

Crappy notes OT's above references and in an overnight survey of 700 AUF members who are also NES readers, 96% believe that the Sand is worse.