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  1. pmccarthy
    Welcome. We are keen to learn!
  2. pmccarthy
    I have spent time in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and a short time in Moscow. They all detest the Russians and the Russians don't have the mental vocabulary to understand why.
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    Not if it is a Ford!
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    In German it is scheissen. The gold rush miners used to call an unsuccessful hole a scheisser, later spelled shicer, because it still had one use.
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    My morning newspaper today tells me why we board aircraft from the left. It is a naval tradition, they say, because the Greek and Phoenician triremes had a steering oar on the right, or steer-board side, so had to pull up to the dock on the left, or port, side. A nice story, but complete BS. My reading of early aviation books tells me this: aircraft with rotary engines such as the Clerget suffered precessional yaw that made it difficult to turn right during rotation and takeoff. The preferred turn after takeoff was to the left. This meant that circuit patterns, even on all-over fields, were to the left. When side-by-side seating came along, the pilot sat on the left for a clear view into the turn and of the circuit. When airliners came along, the entry door was on the left so that the pilot could monitor boarding and confirm the door was closed. So there!
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    Yes, now 3,000 feet plus. I don't see why you would need the card. It is odds+ to the right and evens+ to the left of the north-south line. Very easy to remember. Wasn't much harder in the old days with quadrantal rule.
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    When Cleopatra fell off the barge she got counselling, but he said she was still in de Nile.
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    I have been watching vids of the shot down drones and haven’t seen a Rotax yet.
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    I think that was a milletary model.
  11. pmccarthy
    Why two hand pumps. High quality bicycle pump will do it. It is worth removing a wheel just to find out which keys and spanners you need and how you will prop it up.
  12. pmccarthy
    With nitrous injection.
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    The headset sockets should be positioned so an accidental tug does not bend the plugs. I have ruined two headset mic plugs in my Foxbat where the sockets are in a rail behind my shoulders. The plugs are vertical, a simple lean forward can bend them, cost of the Bose replacement is about $300 each as the whole cable and noise canceller must be replaced. Or solder in a $50 plug and the headset looks crap. Never had a problem in 50 years of flying planes with sockets in the instrument panel.
  14. pmccarthy
    Nice room at Tumut.
  15. pmccarthy
    That prop looks like a real pain.
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    WACs get PRDs. Female American soldiers get periods. Aren't acronyms wonderful.
  17. pmccarthy
    Dan is getting too silly to watch. And too much click bait.
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    Six minutes is too long to be taxying in April.
  19. pmccarthy
    Foxbat support is not in doubt, unless Putin takes over all of Ukraine. They are still shipping aircraft.
  20. pmccarthy
    I think it was Kimba.
  21. pmccarthy
    This one goes for 2.5 minutes. Horrifying.
  22. pmccarthy
    So he went all that way without a basic tool set?
  23. pmccarthy
    I need to replace a PJ-068 microphone plug. That is the standard 5.23 mm plug on just about every headset. I can only find them in the USA with exorbitant postage charges. Is there a supplier in Australia?
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    I would be worried about Nylocs that aren’t actually locked.
  25. pmccarthy
    In the late 1970s / early 1980s VicRail moved into the petroleum business, entering into a joint venture with a number of local oil companies to build operate an oil pipeline between the Altona refinery and a tank farm beside the North East Railway at Somerton, where another pipeline took jet fuel to Tullamarine Airport. The tank farm was never built. The pipeline was sold to private interests by the 1990s and is still used to carry jet fuel to the airport, and since 2008 no fuel has been carried by rail in Victoria.
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