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  1. pmccarthy
    Can I drive in and watch? Will be in the area.
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    Speaking of sweaty nightmares, years ago when I gave up flying for a while, I used to have a repeated dream where I was flying from France to England over the channel then would suddenly remember halfway that I didn't have a current licence. I cured it by going back and getting current! Still have never flown in France or England.
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    Have had a couple of Minis and loved them for their quirks. A car for fun but not practical for me, I am more of a Landcruiser type.
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    It is useful for identifying the active runway 10-20 miles inbound when there is traffic but no radio calls.such as Benalla or Tocumwal glider ops. Just need some plane on OzRunways doing circuits and you know.
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    Denys Davidov said today that he can now talk about the Foxbat, has known for some time that they were being used. He said they had autonomous versions for surveillance before the war.
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    I agree with the criteria. The other factor is purchase cost. I am very happy with my Vixxen but appreciate that many people cannot afford one. The equivalent composite airframe might be a CT, also expensive.
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    The Foxbat is an existing design that works. Remove the non-essential bits and you are left with a reliable drone. I saw one commentary today that said they will hit the bridge with ten Foxbats.
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    Bull terriers are the best!
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    As with "mayday" (from venez m'aider, "come help me"), the urgency signal pan-pan derives from French. In French, a panne is a breakdown, such as a mechanical failure. A three-letter backronym, "possible assistance needed" or "pay attention now" derives from pan. Maritime and aeronautical radio communications courses use those as mnemonics to convey the important difference between mayday and pan-pan.
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    Didn't Bruce want to use Jabirus?
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    I have been thinking about this. I reckon a stripped down A22 would weigh about 280kg and could safely fly at 700kg AUW. Allow 70kg for fuel, it could carry 350kg of explosives. It would not need instruments, seats etc other than an autopilot and a throttle servo. Range wold be well plus 1000 km. I would paint it in Russian civil colours with a blow-up blonde female doll in the pilot position. Is this how Ukraine has been hitting deep into Russia? An 80HP 912 with 2000 hours on it would cost US$5000 in Europe. You could build the whole thing for $50k, very cheap for that capability.
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    A video on Telegram shows what is clearly a weaponised A22 Foxbat hitting a barracks about 1000 km east of Moscow, with a big explosion. This is a still from the video.
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    You should have been warned, perhaps there was a cover up.
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    I love my Vixxen but even though it is a high wing you have to crawl under neath and lie on your side to do the fuel drain.
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    The service ceiling of your Sopwith Camel is when you raise the nose to fire at a Hun fifty feet higher, and you fall out in a spin.
  16. pmccarthy
    The club closed a few years ago. It was being redeveloped as a civic centre I think.
  17. pmccarthy
    Thanks, good ideas.
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    Still catches your balls then.
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    The needles move just a bit. Highest I have seen them was a long climb on a hot day, got about half way up the yellow band. Never seen them reach green. Really good cooling or dud gauges. Oil just lifts off the stop after 3 or 4 minutes from cold start, coolant doesn't move. Photo shows typical cruise. Been that way since new aeroplane.
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    Ballarat has been scary in recent years too. Too many students with poor English frightening the likes of me.
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    The attitude to risk is interesting. People fly Bass Strait in single engines every day. The chances of survival after ditching are close to zero.
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    My new engine (80 hours) has never seen the green band on either the oil or coolant gauges. It worries me. Smart air, the Foxbat agent, say it is normal. I would mask off part of the radiators, but am not convinced that the problem is not just the gauges. I need to get serious about diagnosis.
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    This is what I put in our March club newsletter. Tyabb Airshow 10 March Tyabb, VIC Unusual Attitudes Fly-in 16 March Lake Eppalock VIC Ausfly 22nd - 23rd March Wentworth NSW Aldinga Airshow 7th April Aldinga SA RAAus Fly-n For Fun 12-14 April Parkes NSW ANZAC Weekend Airshow 27-28 April 2024 West Sale, VIC
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    There a nice Quicksilver for sale at present, very reasonable price. Saw it today, I just can’t find the ad again.
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    We had the Tyabb air show ad in our club newsletter for three months.
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