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pmccarthy

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  1. The current structure is appropriate for the organisation. There were several limitations of the previous structure, well described at the time we voted.
  2. One track, your example of barring down means something to me, I have been there and done that and had my mate hit by a falling stone. He was walking up the rill and I shouted but he didn’t hear me. He couldn’t work as a miner again.
  3. New chairman Mark Binskin has military aviation experience way back . His interests are camping, motor sports, dancing and motorcycle riding. New CEO Pip Spence is a woman with no aviation experience at all. here we go again!
  4. Do autopilots have an offset function, say 200m to the right, when following a track?
  5. The important pat of Thruster88s quote is that : Under those regulations, all current pilots must have an aviation security status check. You will also need an aviation security status check if are applying for a flight crew licence.
  6. My old DCA blue logbook fell apart eventually and the cloth covering came away from the cardboard.
  7. It is not optional for GA pilots, must have ASIC or Avid.
  8. People have varying eyesight ability, or visual acuity. Some can see a speck in the distance, others not. When people argue in favour of see and avoid, they do not acknowledge this. Anything that can help should be embraced.
  9. The review of this aircraft in the latest Sport Pilot is interesting, the plane sounds great. Am I right in thinking that a 17:1 glide ratio will make it quite sensitive to turbulence due low wing loading?
  10. The video showing testing of the Mars Ingenuity chopper seems to show one rotor going the wrong way. I wonder if this was deliberate or the reason for the delay.
  11. Coincidentally I had just watched this.
  12. The symptoms are the same as I had with a Microair some years back, there was slight contact in the soldered joint in the antenna connector.
  13. Try browing the archives for lots of funnies. https://www.chickenwingscomics.com/
  14. This has been very interesting to me both for aviation and motorcycle engines. Thanks everyone.
  15. That’s so cruel, with his dad not yet in the ground.:)
  16. Sidney Cotton invented the Sidcot flying suit in 1917. It was so popular that the Red Baron was wearing a purloined one when he was shot down. Later Amy Johnson wore one.
  17. I had just written an item about Australian aviation inventions for our aero club newsletter, I missed Warren and Grant. But they missed Sidney Cotton and Alf Traeger, who made the flying doctor possible.
  18. The very first Sikorsky also had twin tail rotors. But it is not the one you are thinking of.
  19. The caption on this photo says it was an early experimental version of the S-56 but the caption may be wrong. I will keep looking. 🙂
  20. Sikorsky S-56 then!
  21. Boeing AH-64 Apache
  22. I cannot find HITC or his project using search. I remember he got deleted a decade ago and came back, wonder what happened this time.
  23. This would provide a good base line for design. There are plenty of them flying in the USA, only one I believe in Australia.
  24. Texan Club in Australia is 550kg.
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