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    Trivialize, sensationalize, editorialize ... That's what we get instead of news from the corporate media.
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    The best way is to use a heat gun rather than a torch. The same applies to the pipes coming out of the water pump. The pipes are very soft aluminium so be very gentle with them. However, if you damage one, they're not terribly expensive to replace ...
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    Very bad news about the pax, RIP. Also not good news about Ryan. I only just finished reading his book about a week ago. Ryan: Get well soon mate!
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    Must be a metric compass!
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    Agree, but aren't the terms long and short also vague? Where exctly does "long" downwind start? Is it defined somewhere? I must admit to using the term on occasion, but have I used it correctly?
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    Sorry, not convinced.
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    Sorry, but this is an issue I'm particularly passionate about. Apart from the legality of whether these handheld radios are even approved for airborne use, it seems to me that the mindset seems to be "I'm obliged to put a radio in my plane so I'll put in the cheapest one I can find, and if other people can't make out what I'm saying that's their problem". The radio is the only means we have to tell other pilots where we are and what our intentions are. IMO, you want the best thing you can put in there (within a reasonable budget) and handheld radios just don't qualify. For a start, unless it is connected into the aircraft power, you've got battery life issues, both the charge life and the life cycle of the battery. Then you have the quality of the electronics and the quality of the signal. Finally, most handheld outputs are optimised for the little "rubber resistor" antennas rather than proper antennas. You've spent so much on the plane, why not protect it with good comms?
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    Soleair: What a beautiful machine! Your work leaves me speechless ... As does your choice of radio. Why put so much effort into a project and then cut corners with an el-cheapo handheld radio? I get really frustrated every time I hear "mmmmfffgffggf fghdfdvd ddgdgteg gshdgdvd traffic" on the radio! Please please put a proper radio in your airplane so that the rest of us can hear and understand your calls and tell where you are and what you're doing.
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    I do what Rotax recommend, no more, no less. Rotax have thousands of engines in the wild and they get feedback about the running and maintenance of them which they pay attention to. I believe that if oil analyses were useful for Rotax engines, Rotax would say to "get 'em done".
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    A woman that used to work with my wife used to wear very see-through blouses with no bra and she was fairly well endowed and knew it. Whenever she saw someone perving, she would go troppo on them. That's what I would classify as sexual harrassment.
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    Ahh, Mike I do so miss the full clear doors of my Nynja.
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    One of these ...Oh wait ...
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    I had a friend who was the consumate pick-up artist and I asked him for some good pick-up lines. He told me his most successful one was to ask the girl how she liked her eggs in the morning. I tried that and all I got was "Unfertilized, thank you!"
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    Three young studs went to the bakery, knowing that the cute girl behind the counter wore short skirts. When she asked the first boy what he wanted, he asked for raisin bread knowing it was kept on the top shelf and she would have to climb the ladder to get it. When she came back down, she asked the second boy what he wanted and he also asked for raisin bread. Thinking to save herself another trip up the ladder while she was up there, she asked the third boy "Is yours raisin too?" He said "No, but it's quiverin."
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    LOL! I've been living in Oz for nearly 50 years and I'm still not properly de-wogged.
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    Yamamoto had studied in the US and knew the extent and sophistication of the US industry. The US still has an overwhelming military, but the expense of it coupled with round after round of corporate tax cuts has hollowed out the US economy.
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    Quite so. The bombing of London occurred initially by mistake of navigation. The fire bombing of Dresden is still hotly debated to this day as to the morality and it sent Harris into seclusion for a very long time. Also, your statement about the surprise attack on PH is correct. Military attacks aim for the element of surprise. What was unintentional was that the Japanese had not officially declared war on the US at the moment the attack took place, but had fully intended to do so. There was a stuff up in the decoding of the last transmissions to the embassy in Washington that delayed the declaration till past the time of the attack. Admiral Yamamoto was said to have written in his diary "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" when he learned that the declaration was presented AFTER the attack started.
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    The Japanese army did clash with the Russians in China and were thoroughly thrashed in the process. It made them VERY wary of ever taking on the Russians for the duration of the war.
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    OK, hindsight is always 20/20, and with politics, NOTHING is ever black and white, nor as it seems. I have watched every doco and docudrama, and read everything I can lay hands on about the Pacific war and just about every one comes at the conflict from a different perspective. My point is, we'll never definitively know the reasons behind the dropping of the bombs on Japan. That said, I have a great uncle who is on the Arizona. Whenever I go to Hawaii, I always make the pilgrimage to say "hello and RIP".
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    A bit more info about the original batch of pics posted in this thread. Some of them were taken by a guy named Deitmar Eckell and went into a book that he published through crowd funding, titled Happy End. The photos in Deitmar's book are all of aircraft that crashed in remote places, yet all on board survived, hence the name "Happy End". http://dietmareckell.com/?splash=1
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    Very green up your way Mike.
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    The F16 is still a premium fighter. Converting them to targets shows how much the military industrial complex controls US government spending. It's just plain wrong to take good airplanes and just blow them up.
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    Woohoo Mike! Up, up and away...
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    I grew up in South Florida and when I was young, some of the shops in Miami had signs sayin "si habla espanol" now some of the shops have signs "Yes! We speak English"
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    Mike: Yes, getting some nice flights done, but also some short stuff. Took a friendly local flying instructor up the other day; he's looking for a replacement for an aging Tecnam. In doing that, I discovered how my landings have slipped into long GA type powered approaches instead of the nice glide approaches that I was taught. So yesterday I did some circuits and started getting my landings back in shape. We did a good flight up to Double Island Point a few weeks back too. The Legend is now due for its first 25hr service. We're planning a trip out through the centre of Oz in April/May next year. Out to Ayers Rock then down south and back up the coast. I'm not sure whether we'll make The Old Station, but if we do, we'll catch up there.
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