planedriver

Interesting article re: hydrogen powered aircraft.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210401-the-worlds-first-commercial-hydrogen-plane.

The upside is that for those of us on limited flying budgets, we could possibly see slot meters installed, where you throw in a couple of bob to do a quick circuit or two 

On 05/01/2019 at 8:16 PM, M61A1 said:

 

 

Bunderburg Bolts have been available for quite some time, it seems.

Lets hope so Skippy.

Badgerys Creek is not supposed to open until about 2026.

Hopefully Bankstown will last till then.

Aviation is, or at least should be, a vital necessity within a huge country like Australia and yet so many airports are being removed off the map.

Privatisation is an absolute curse, and seems only to be fodder for greedy developers. 

Sadly this is occurring all around the country and there seems to precious little to stop it.

The other day I drove through Bankstown Development Park, which has for decades been a fine local Bankstown Airport in the Sydney basin. The size of the warehouses there have to be seen to be believed. Some are that big that you could almost make the runways on their roofs, and i'm not kidding.

This is so sad to see, yet one can't help but feel that with such reduced manouvering space, a repeat of what happened at Melbourne's Essendon Airport when a King Air had problems and the area where the pilot may have been able to put down safely, was now filled with an industrial development, and the outcome turned out to be catasrosphic.,

It is hoped that all events go according to plan, but sooner, or hopefully very much later, that may not be the case.

Hoxton Park and Schofields also went to developers in the same way, and from what I hear  Warnervale and The Oaks have also been in the firing line.

Greedy bastards!

The value of emergency ops for fire fighting, law enforcement,medical evacuations, etc; etc; to mention just a few, do not even seem to be taken into consideration.

It seems way beyond what common sense should dictate.

If regional flights were hoped to operate from there, the clearance is likely to to be "cleared for take-off, warehouse 16 left.

What can be done to put the brakes on this? I'm buggered if I know!

2 hours ago, facthunter said:

I've forgotten how long ago I stopped smoking.. That ones a no brainer. GOOD wine is so cheap it's hard to stop, but getting there.  Nev

You've inspired me again Nev. I'll start tomorrow 

For those among'st us that like flight simulators, be grateful of the progress that has been made in recent years.

After all, you could be trying to learn how to fly on learn on one of these.

Fascinating wing section 

The Airtruk was a noisy little  bugger, we could always hear them climb out of the Seven Hills yard, back in the days of my married bliss in nearby Baulkham Hils. when I actually owned a house.

On 27/02/2020 at 7:33 AM, BigPete said:

Hi, landed here a long time ago. This may be the wrong thread but I hope it will do. There is a private airstrip a few miles from the township of Cobdogla in SA, just down the road from Berri.

Does anybody know who owns it and their contact details please. My brother now lives in Cobdogla and I would love to fly in to visit.

 

Kindest Regards

 

Peter. (BigPete).

Any thread you want to post to should be fine Pete.

Many on here would be so glad to hear that you're not pushing the daises out of the ground.

Kind Rgds. Alan (planey)

Fantastic!

I just love to see how guys on these forums help each other, and try to solve problems.

Well done!

It's all about watching others backs, and trying to keep us all safe.

Thanks lee-wave, of course you are correct. Just goes to show that great Aussie wine can confuss your fuzzle box late at night.

Wing Cdr. Ken Wallis lived up on the east coast in Norfolk I think. 

I donated a nice framed print of a Britten Norman Islander geo survey plane. Makes me wonder what ever happened to that, but won't loose any sleep over it.

So do you know what happened to "Little Nellie" out of curiosity?

It's probably worth a lot more than it's build cost these days, if it's still around somewhere.

As they say, there are sometimes when you are airborne when you wish you hadn't left the ground.

Been there, done that too many times.

Pass the glue please.

You are probably at Redhill. I know it well.

Just keep the Jabby away from my nephew who flys his models not far away. 

Hence the name "widow maker" came about.

About 760 mph 1100 ft/sec at sea level on a standard day which relates to temperature and air density, and about 660 mph at 35,000 ft.

Obviously that is air speed travelling through a column of air, not ground speed which could increase the figure by 100 mph if flying with a jet stream

WOW! That was like watching tennis at centre-court at Wimbledon (minus the strawberries)

It's amazing the thing held together at that speed despite it's very clean design.

Presumably carbon-fibre construction.

Garuda 747 flight to London Gatwick many years ago we had three aborted take-offs in succession at Abu Dhabi, before eventually getting off-loaded to a tired looking Air Lanka 747 to Paris, then British Caledonian to Gatwick. Luggage arrived 3 days later. When boarding for trip home 2 weeks later noticed the name City of Jakarta on the nose, same aircraft that had problems outbound, did not inspire a lot of confidence.

Chatting to an engineer on the ground at Abu Dhabi, he said the captain had had problems ever since they left Denpasar and refused to fly it any further. Don't know what the cause was, but when hurtling down the runway each time to hear a loud bang, then engines shut down and hard braking, certainly get's your attention.

Like people that have light blue boats. If something goes pear shaped, it's an advantage not blend into the background scenery.

This rescue appeared on my facebook page and I thought it was worth sharing with you all.

https://www.facebook.com/UNILADAdventure/videos/701284040747466

My son had two Merc's given to him, both 1990 -1996 models and they both needed new wiring looms because Merceded decided in their error to use biodegradable wiring insulation, which after a few years fell apart causing fires and all sorts of problems, and very costly to replace..

I'm happy with my 2008 Falcon wagon running on lpg and 400,000km on clock, so it's probably what you call a half life engine.

Sorry about thread drift, back to aviation topic!

Yes, some skillful flying in those video's, and I hope Lady Luck lives to a ripe old age.

Also did a couple of evening champagne flights with him out at Bankstown.

It was great experience and really like stepping back in time with crew in uniforms of the period.

Most enjoyable view with decent sized windows to look out from, flying low and slow, to just short of the Harbour Bridge with all the lights below before returning to base. Happy memories!

I love the old DC3's and have had a couple of flights with the late Jack Curtis when Dakota National Air was based at Bankstown.

I took my grandson on his first aeroplane flight with him which we got for free, as the little fellah spent most of the day during the air show handing out brochures for Jack advertising his joy flights. I can almost hear him now going up behind people saying "Hey you's, wanna go for a flight on a DC3