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ADDENDUM to my first reply: Radiators for oil coolers are usually placed down low. If you don't have the airflow from over the engine exit at the bottom, then oily crap gets all over the windscreen or sides of the aeroplane, depending on the location of the outlet.

Off the top of my head, I'd say "bottom". If the air intake is high at the front and the outlet is low at the rear, then the air has to flow over more of the engine, allowing more of the engine to transfer heat to the air. If the outlet was at the top, the air would only be in contact with the top parts of the engine. Side outlets would be much the same as the upper ones. Although probably insignificant in a small, low speed aeroplane, the heated expelled air can add to the overall thrust produced by the engine. If the exit hole is smaller than the entry hole, then there would be some compression of the incoming air, which would want to expand as it was heated while passing over the engine. This is the principle of the jet engine. I acknowledge the traditional ... whoops, . I acknowledge that what I have said above is simplistic. To determine the real life effects would involve more engineering calculation than I am capable of. Even the effect of the total thrust on the aerodynamic pitch airframe would have to be considered.

Saw this video a couple of weeks ago. Problem with this aircraft was that it flew beautifully with the pod attached, but handling on the return flight without it was horrible.

I'm amazed when I see pilots' logbooks lined up on a shelf in a flying school office. After a few lessons, everyone has their own headsets, which they dutifully take home with them after a lesson, "in case they get lost or pinched". If they go missing, you are out some bucks, but it doesn't impact anything essential to your flying "career". Losing your logbook does. I recently pulled out my logbook. I've been through many flight schools since my first TIF in January 1970 until my last flight ten years ago. Who knows where those records be if I had left the logbook on a shelf in some flying school? That logbook was essential to me a couple of weeks ago when I made application to go to a Part 61 licence. Going through it was like going through an old photo album, allowing me to recall my madness of Youth. I'm also doing research for a biography of a famous Australian aviator. He kept all his logbooks, which I can now access to learn the minutiae of his flying story. Also, tell me of any business that you know of in any industry that has a disaster management plan to protect physical business-related records. Speak these words to your logbook: "Come to me arms, you bundle of charms. And stick to me lips like chewy."

While the integrity of the investigators is essential, they have to have an organisation to give them all those thongs we could lump together under the title "Business Administration". You can't expect the person who goes out to the site of an incident to investigate for causes to also have to worry if there is enough paper and tone in the office printer, or if there is an office to have a printer in. I can see no conflict of interest in aviation investigators being included in the business administration duties of the people who do it for CASA. However, you must remember that the ATSB investigates incidents in all areas of transportation where the Commonwealth has jurisdiction. So it is a separate organisation from CASA. Also, if a death results from a transport incident, the information discovered during the investigation must be given to the Coroner. The office of coroner was established by Richard I in 1194. It was a very high ranking office in the judiciary. Amongst its initial roles was to determine if the person who died was a Norman, and then to determine a cause of death. If the cause indicated foul play, then the coronial inquest turned into murder investigation. However, if the person was not a Norman, that is a Brit, the coroner was no interested any more. Obviously these responses were based on protecting the conquerors from the conquered, as was seen during WWII when the boss of the SS, Reinhard Heydrich was mortally wounded in Prague on 27 May 1942 as a result of Operation Anthropoid. Nazi intelligence falsely linked the Czech and Slovak soldiers and resistance partisans to the villages of Lidice and Ležáky. Both villages were razed; the men and boys age 14 and above were shot, and most of the women and children were deported and murdered in Nazi concentration camps. The word itself is ancient. The term relates to when the deceased was entrusted to the coronator, that is to a necrofore who prepared the corpse according to custom and, among other things, put a small laurel or myrtle wreath (Lat. corona) on his head so that he might be accepted in glory in the afterlife. Necrofore: a grave digger.

If you didn't know by now, Arthur Butler Aviation Museum wants to hold a flying event in May 2023 at Tooraweenah Aerodrome, NSW. The event for pilots and crew will involve a navigation exercise around a defined course that would take about 2 hours to fly. There is a shed load of work involved in getting CASA approval and organising trophies, accommodation, ground transport, food, facilities etc. The Museum has got a lot of support from the community to create a village fair atmosphere during the day of the event. The whole effort is going to fail if no pilots and crew come to either compete or just come to socialise. I'm asking for pilots and crew to express an interest in coming. I know that "there's many a slip twixt cup and lip", that would cause withdrawals close to the date, but we live in hope that interfering factors will go elsewhere. If you have a fairly firm feeling that you would attend the event, either to compete, or simply to meet up for a yarn with other recreational fliers, please let me know by email to [email protected] Here's the ERSA entry for Tooraweenah and here is some information from within this website: https://www.recreationalflying.com/search/?q=tooraweenah&quick=1&type=communitymap_markers

Gee there were a lot of aeroplanes from different manufacturers which had a similar appearance, especially the nose.

Aro, I'm sorry that I've obviously upset you. I am not deriding any properly trained and officially licensed person to be capable of lawfully engaging in the occupation of transport vehicle driver. We are presently being regularly told of the actions taken by certain persons of Semitic appearance against persons often of Caucasian appearance, but sometimes against other Semitic-looking people. How does one tell if a person learning to drive a heavy vehicle is a refugee from some war-torn country who constantly thanks a spiritual guide for the good fortune to have found a place of safety, or if the person harbors an intense hatred all who do not hold the beliefs of his spiritual guide? I can see this discussion of what I wrote turning well and truly sour. So, if we can agree on two things, let them be that I will shut up and you will let me.

It was just an example that came readily to mind.

Geez! Critics. I might be a nut, but when I read the original post, and having met Skippy, I simply saw it as a bit of humour. I was going to suggest these: Only $3.24 a pack from your local Officeworks store. When not in use, the clip can come back over the shaft of the handle and be out of the way.

Working in a morgue doing post mortems is not the same as attending the scenes deaths. Sometimes the condition of the body can be unpleasant, but I reckon that your friend had developed a means to create a distance between the living human and the lifeless mass of flesh and bone on the autopsy table. Nothing wrong with that. It's the method I used. What you have to remember is that accident investigators usually don't get to the site until well after the dead and injured have been removed, so they don't see the deceased or injured as first responders do. The information that comes from the body that helps with the overall investigation comes from the Forensic Pathologist's report - a few sheets of paper. How much would it cost to employ an investigator? Let's say $150K per annum for all salary components. Allow $100K for travel accommodation. Add to that, non-recurring set up expenses for facilities, say $250K. An alternative would be to contract out the work, but I suspect that method would be more expensive, cause they usually are.

While driving around Sydney on a recent trip there, I noticed a lot of people undergoing heavy vehicle driving courses. I noticed that most of the student drivers were not of the Caucasian nor Asiatic physiognomy. Most seemed to have roots in placed short distances between the two. Several years ago, around Christmas if I recall, a terrorist drove a heavy vehicle through a crowded pedestrian mall in a European town. It makes me wonder if our Federal counter-terrorism organisations will soon require an ASIC card for those holding a State-issued heavy vehicle driver's licence. Or has my Maths failed me and I've gone 1 + 1 = 3?

Not being an addict to social meeja, it would not have crossed my mind that such things happen. However, how do you stop addicts from posting?

You've got that pegged!

Mr Bouttell said his group had conducted investigations in the past, but it should not have to. "Enough is enough on the basis that we expose our people, our own employees and volunteers, to some pretty horrific scenes," he said. What an absolute fvckwit! Try going out on a wintry Southern Highlands day to to recover chunks of the bodies from treetops and paddocks of four young people whose aeroplane hit the ground at cruise speed on a flight from Sydney to the snowfields. Then later in the week watch as Rescue Squad members remove the broken mangled bodies of a middle-aged couple from a pile of twisted metal jammed under the bull bar of a semi, so that you can begin your evidence collection to determine the cause of the collision. Yes. These scenes are horrific, but when that's your job, they are expected, because you have sworn to serve not only the Crown via the Coroner, but the relatives who want to know how they lost their loved ones. It does take its toll. Many an accident investigator or Crime Scene Examiner has either thrown in the towel, or chewed a .38 barrel as a result of PTSD. But before those tragedies took place they have done their duty to all involved, and maybe, on occasion, their work has resulted in improved safety. Did your early C ommodore or Falcon have airbags?

Question from one who knows nothing about radio transmission. Both sets of wires seem to be attached simply to metal straps, which I assume form the antenna ground planes. The strips seem to be glued to the body. If a large area sheet of metal replaced the thin strips, would that improve the trans-ception capabilities of an aerial? On the converse, would a large ground plane require some mans of screening it from the aircraft's electrical signal (engine ignition system, electronics etc)

Each State and Territory of Australia has some sort of Act dealing with incorporated associations. I assume a common requirement of those Acts is that an incorporated organisation has to have a constitution. If my assumption is correct, then the original RAA must have had one, and a copy must be with the relevant government department, if only in archived form. My questions are: 1. Does a Limited Company have something similar to a constitution? 2. If so, is it available to the Public to study?

Is short field take-off technique taught nowadays?

Maybe if you tell them porkies.

An the other thing is to identify unforeseen failures in structures that lead to incidents.

I'm not an engineer, but that statement arouses my curiosity since it meant enough to you to mention it. You gunna explore the significance of that?

Please explaaain, the abbreviation

Half the reason that ATSB investigations take so long is that, as with so many occupations based on the Trades, there are not enough qualified personnel. And Heaven help the aviation industry if they seduced AMEs from the workshop floor. There aren't enough of them to keep the aeroplanes in the air anyway. From my experience as the Coroner's representative investigating a fatal aviation incident, the involvement of ATSB caused a pain in the butt. They seemed to think that their work was Secret Squirrel stuff and would not forward reports to me as the person responsible for putting the report together. They reckoned that their reports were for the Coroner's eyes only. The only lead I got from them was that there was no sign of spilled fuel, nor smell of fuel around the aeroplane. At least I could investigate the fulling of the aircraft and propose fuel exhaustion as a primary cause.

Keeps the kangaroos, wombats and stray cattle off the strip at Terrabaginarf.

Courage be damned! He was racing back home to stop his girl marrying the wrong bloke.