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  1. pmccarthy
    I think it was Kimba.
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    This one goes for 2.5 minutes. Horrifying.
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    So he went all that way without a basic tool set?
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    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.
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    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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    Mike Dalton is a member of our club and specialises in aviation risks. [email protected] +61 419369678
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    We have potholes everywhere at present. I can cruise my Prado at 100kph and it just rolls over them. But if my wife's Corolla Hybrid hit one it would bust the tyre and shatter the rim, the tyres are really low profile. So she has to swerve suddenly instead. What would an investigator conclude?
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    Meteorology may be a weakness of RAA training compared with GA. I don't know that, but remember that meteorology was a big deal in my GA training many years ago. Having said that, lots of GA pilots seem to get themselves into unexpected IMC situations.
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    I suggest sending the fastest first so there is no danger of slow planes getting rear-ended.
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    Mount Beauty to NSW could have been challenging in yesterdays weather.
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    One to run back with a fire extinguisher.
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    A p38 Lightning crashed on Mt Elliot during WW2 and the wreckage has never been found. I was part of a party that went looking for it about 30 years ago. mt Elliot is bigger than you think!
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    Air Canada announced Thursday that it had ordered 30 ES-30 electric aircraft from Heart Aerospace. The plane can fly up to 124 miles in all-electric mode or up to 500 miles with capacity limitations. The Swedish manufacturer has garnered firm orders from United Airlines and Mesa Airlines. Scheduled to enter service in 2028, the plane is set to seat 30 passengers in a two-by-one configuration and fly up to 124 miles, or 200 kilometers, when in all-electric mode. The range can extend to 249 miles when the battery is supplemented by generators and 497 miles when the capacity is limited to 25 people, according to Air Canada.
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    Yes about two inches unfortunately.
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    I grew up in Broken Hill and don’t believe I was intellectually impaired. But anyone living alongside a major road in our cities would have ingested far more lead than I did.
  18. pmccarthy
    That will be another useless note to distract from the important ones.
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    My trouble is getting the fly open in time.
  20. pmccarthy
    Much damage to that nosewheel spat?
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    Reno race pilot died yesterday. Engine failure, and stall spin trying the impossible turn. A most experienced pilot.
  22. pmccarthy
    That is the argument used by the Taliban against religious transgressors.
  23. pmccarthy
    I have found most people on this site have been converted to the warmist religion.
  24. pmccarthy
    Agreed. Lead oxides, carbonates near the surface of the earth are quite soluble and get into the water system. Lead sulphides, deeper in the earth and unaltered, are much more stable.
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    They hover over Avocado crops to prevent frost damage. Or they did in NZ some years ago.
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