pmccarthy

Spot on!

Yes but which one?

OK try this

Are you arguing that CASA has not run down its technical capabilities while increasing bureaucracy?

I think the facts are in the report. Professions Australia is a reputable lobby group.

Royal Aircraft Factory BE2

Professions Australia have released a report on CASA. In summary they concluded 1. Staffing. Technical teams are chronically short staffed and there is an effective freeze on recruitment. 2. Workloads. Under staffing is intensifying workloads among a shrinking pool of technical professionals. 3. Training and currency. Technical work groups are being deskilled as a result of a lack of currency training and professional development. 4. Restructuring and procedural change. CASA are hollowing out the technical elements of many roles via restructuring and changing procedures which limit the opportunity to conduct technical work and oversight. 5. Poor engagement and loss of confidence. CASA fails to take the concerns of technical staff seriously, convinced that the direction that executive are taking the organisation in is sound. Staff engagement and confidence in leadership is at an all-time low. See https://aopa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CASA_in_crisis.pdf

Try this one while we regroup.

In NZ I suspect.

In the hands of a weekend pilot a $40-50k Piper or Cessna will not be more expensive to run than an RAA type, unless poor selection or plain bad luck. I should add ...I use a LAME to do the maintenance either way. Have owned both options.

Buhl bull pup

The yellow and white twins the Flying Doctor used were very smart.

Akaflieg Stuttgart FS.28 Avispa

Coliban Water hands the running of its airport in Central Victoria to the Cohuna Lions Club after the Gannawarra Shire Council voted to terminate its lease and hand back the operating licence, despite protests from the community. Read the full story

I wasn't aware but was recently told that Abe Lincoln was as divisive as Trump. He wanted to do what half the electors didn't want and he pushed it through. It led to a civil war. He is very highly regarded today but apparently was viewed like Trump in his own time. And of course assassinated as a result.

Seem to have lost the logo, now just a big R in my menu.

Peugeot L112 aircraft engine, 1916 , Musée de l'Air, Le Bourget, France

BMW IIIa was an inline six-cylinder SOHC valvetrain, water-cooled aircraft engine, the first-ever product from BMW GmbH. Its success laid the foundation for future BMW success. It is best known as the powerplant of the Fokker D.VIIF, which outperformed any allied aircraft.

Great stuff, thanks onetrack

Antoinette began as a private venture led by the engineer Léon Levavasseur. By 1904, most of the prize-winning speedboats in Europe were powered with Antoinette engines. During this time, he designed engines of various configurations of up to thirty-two cylinders. The company's primary business was the sale of engines to aircraft builders. Their engines were used in the Santos-Dumont 14-bis of 1906, Paul Cornu's rudimentary helicopter of 1907, the Voisin biplane that was modified and piloted by Henri Farman who used it to complete Europe's first 1 kilometer circular flight in January 1908, and other significant pioneer aircraft. There seems to be no information about the application of the v16.

Liberty V12 engine photographed at Hendon in 2012. The Liberty L-12 was an American 27-litre (1,649 cubic inch) water-cooled 45° V-12 aircraft engine of 400 hp (300 kW) designed for a high power-to-weight ratio and ease of mass production. It was succeeded by the Packard 1A-2500. There were 20,478 engines produced between 1917 and 1919. Only a few engines made it to France before the war ended.

The Avion II was the second primitive aircraft designed by Clément Ader in the 1893. Most sources agree that work on it was never completed, Ader abandoning it in favour of the Avion III that had a financial backer. Ader's later claim that he flew the Avion II in August 1892 for a distance of 100 m at a field in Satory is not widely accepted. The engine developed for Avion II, called Zéphyr was a light steam engine driving a 3 m (10 ft) diameter 4-bladed propeller, in which steam was cooled through a condenser. It yielded 22 kW (30 hp) at 480 rpm at a pressure of 15 Pa (0.00 psi), weighing 33 kg (73 lb) dry, and 134 kg (295 lb) with full boiler and accessories.

This one was at the Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace, Le Bourget, Paris. 32 different aircraft types used Salmson engines, including Short, Farman, Blackburn, Voisin, Caudron, Vickers and Sopwith. From Wikipedia: Henri Salmson, a manufacturer of water pumps, was engaged by Georges Marius Henri-Georges Canton and Pierre Unné, a pair of Swiss engineers, to produce engines to their design. Their initial efforts were on barrel engines, but these failed to meet expectations due to low reliability and high fuel consumption caused by internal friction. A new 7-cylinder water-cooled radial design was then developed by Canton and Unné. The range was expanded to produce 9-cylinder models, and also two-row 14-cylinder and 18-cylinder engines. By 1912 the Salmson A9 was producing around 120 brake horsepower; while competitive with rival designs from French companies, Salmson, Canton and Unné decided to develop more powerful engines as their rivals were concentrating on engines of lower power. The engines were produced at Salmson's factory at Billancourt, which was expanded during the First World War, and a second factory was opened at Villeurbanne. The Salmson-(Canton-Unne) series of water-cooled engines were also built by licensees in Russia and in Great Britain at the Dudbridge Iron Works Limited at Stroud in Gloucestershire between 1914 and 1918.

From Wikipedia - From 1905 to 1915, Alessandro Anzani built a number of three-cylinder fan and radial engines, one of which powered Louis Blériot's 1909 cross-channel flight. An Anzani three-cylinder engine that powers a Blériot XI based in England is thought to be the oldest airworthy engine in the world. The first image is from Paris, the second from Old Warden, in a 1910 Deperdussin.