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pmccarthy

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  1. Also for clearing blockages by hitting the cocking handle of your Vickers machine gun.
  2. BREAKING NEWS: emergency services are currently on the scene in Balwyn North after a light plane was forced to make an emergency landing at a reserve, next to the Eastern Freeway. It's understood the pilot was travelling from Bendigo. It's a Cherokee six, nice landing!
  3. This was my brand new 10 litre tuff jug, which is well calibrated. The other 20 litre plastic ones have a 20 litre mark, they have never blown up. I think the servo calibration is wrong in their advantage.
  4. I bought PULP 98 yesterday from my local BP. Calibrated plastic jerry cans. Bowser said 10 litres, jerry can said 9.6, it was a cold day. Experiment repeated for a total of 90 litres in the ten and four 20 litre jerry cans, I paid for 94 litres.
  5. I think some publishers have their own searchable subscription services for more recent papers. So it is a commercial thing. I don't know whether there is a rolling time limit or how it works, but there seems to be a growing resource of more recent material on Trove.
  6. The lack of coverage is a Trove thing. It does not index most commercial papers after 1952 due to copyright limitations.
  7. All the crash comics can be downloaded here https://collections.heritageoftheair.org.au/items/browse?page=2
  8. Young Harry has not been around since Moe McCachy retired.
  9. Having been at the scene of an RV9A flip, I can confirm that the canopy had to be smashed from the outside.
  10. The 115 just slips into RAA 760 kg category. Not with the larger engines.
  11. Looks Kardashian to me.
  12. Thanks to those who recommended the Tuff Jug. It is easy to use and gives a 10 litre fill with no spills. If the filler hole is smaller than the 35mm spout, then you need the extra adaptor as well. My problem is solved!
  13. 110 knots is easy, at only 5100rpm, I haven't tried fine tuning things. I have been focussed on learning to use the autopilot. They advertise 115 kts, but that probably needs 5300 rpm I guess.
  14. My new Vixxen…loving it.
  15. They are still building and exporting aircraft and providing good spares support.
  16. I would ban straight in approaches in busy traffic.
  17. I thought turning final was a standard call. Last chance to avoid a conflict.
  18. Ivan has no knowledge of the sliding shade that may have once been fitted to VH-RSJ.
  19. I have resisted paying for YouTube subscription which claims to remove ads. Has anyone done it, and does it?
  20. Duluth has always been an exciting and romantic place for me, I don’t know why.
  21. Agree, we would like to be more multinational as this would be more interesting to all involved, and the sky is the sky, wherever we fly.
  22. Yes, very high risk of a stroke, burst blood vessel in the brain.
  23. I will ask Ivan, the current owner of the rolled steel joist, how it works. I flew VH-MVF a lot back in the 1970s in Broken Hill and we just lived with it for a while, then painted white the top of the canopy.
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