planedriver

Approaching 8 yrs of happiness on this site can't be bad in anyone's books. Just so appreciative of all your hard work. 

 

Thanks Ian, and helpers.

 

 

Jeez mate, your timing is bad. Just got home from a few hours fishing on Botany Bay, and there was plenty of room for you in the boat.

 

With your computer skills, you might have even been able to work out where the fish were feeding. That would have been a bonus.

 

 

The sand looks damp under port wing, but a bit dry on the starboard side. Anyway, it always helps it it stays the right way up, as in this case.

 

 

Posting that, is a bit cruel to some of us old geysers Phil.

 

I have a few procedures coming up and it looks like I need to add a new brain processor to the list as well.

 

 

record temperature (46) in Adelaide today, a great day to fly the glider . 12 knots lift to 14,200 ft ( well the vario, made by Mike Borgelt hits the stops at 12 knots.)

Who cares about global warming huh. Just get out your old glider and fly for hours up in the cool air over 10,000 ft.

Or come to Cole's supermarket in Earlwood where hypothermia sets in after a few minutes.

 

 

And so say all of us

 

 

Could not see any photo along those lines. Possibly a good thing as i'm about to have lunch

 

 

 

 

All the very best mate, work on the assumption that the devil looks after his own. I too had a very recent spell in hospital with ticker problems, pneumonia and fluid on the lungs and made a discovery about hospital food. The orange bits are carrots, green bits are beans and the yellow bits are sweet corn. Cleverly they manage to get them to all taste the same. Any leftovers are exported to China

 

?. Take care, and we all look forward to your return, fitter and better. Kindest Regards, Planey

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking good Don, keep at it. 

 

 

TWO ARRESTED!  Good work by the Sussex Police and others involved.

 

 

Just a pleasant sunset flight down the Northern Oregon coast.  Landed at a seaside strip where the treeline provided a welcome block to the strong East crosswind, just in time for touchdown.  Narrow enough to keep me on my toes! Still stretching the envelope in my first tail-dragger..

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Looks good! Always nicer when the weather Gods are being kind.

 

 

 

 

I used to work at Heathrow for 10+ years, and every morning at 10.45, regardless of where you were, everyone would stop and watch the New York Concorde take off. A sight that never failed to impress with its beauty, and noise!

I was lucky enough to fly on Concorde once (at a much reduced price for BA employees) - brilliant! So smooth and graceful. It was a very sad day when they stopped flying.

 

Neil

Similar experience for me Neil. I was doing a lot of work for BA back then and scored a flight back from Bahrain. A wonderful experience which now seems like centuries ago, but I can only guess that it was around the 1976 period. I advised on the majority of the photoelectric control system used on the conveyors used on the new BEA/BOAC as it was then New Freight Terminal at Heathrow. 10 miles of conveyor network all under one roof, so goldfish destined for Amsterdam ended up in Cairo, or so it seemed, till we got the bugs ironed out, plus bearings which clapped out because they were running 24hrs a day.

 

 

I was told the other day that Sammy Davis Jnr. was the first to fly The Atlantic, which just goes to prove that you can't always believe what you hear.

 

 

The Comet was leaps and bounds ahead in terms of performance at the time, but like most things, it is not always wise to invest in the Mk1 version of what is on offer.

 

However, iv'e flown in Comet 4C many times, and i'm still around to haunt you.

 

I recon it looked pretty slick in it's BEA livery.

 

 

All the best, Bex.

Know where you're at.

 

See you soon.

Take care mate, iv'e just been doing the same.

 

I did discover that in my case the orange bits were carrots, green bits were beans and the yellow bits were sweet corn, but they all tasted the same.

 

A bit of home food will soon put you right.

 

Kind regards

 

Planey

 

 

This is one great site, (thanks Ian). mates helping mates.

 

You can also give them a bit of cheek from time to time and that's priceless . 

 

 

Can't agree FT

 

Why don't you try to apply that same logic to driving schools?

 

Many local councils would love to have fewer training facilities, as it gives them more ammunition to justify closing airfields because they are no longer needed, However, developers could make good use of them.

 

It would be a good thing IF ALL who are responsible for making decisions that affect us, were pilots themselves.

 

Sadly this is not always the case.

 

Like so many politicians, it would appear that some are more interested in their back pockets, than the interests and well being of those they supposed to represent.

 

 

That was my thoughts too Steve.

 

If there's megabucks in it, i'm heading back to pre-school to train as a highly paid livery-designer:ecstatic:

 

 

Good on you Don. Looks like the build is coming along nicely. Quite a classic old design.

 

I know a number were powered with a Continental motor A-40- I think, but many used a converted 1600 Vee-Dub motor.

 

What will you be powering yours with?

 

Saw a few of them in my younger days.

 

A cute little single seater, and a good progression from the models in the background of your photo's.

 

 

Personally, I think it looks terrible. (just my opinion).

 

The original colour scheme is as Aussie as, and one we have all come to know and love.

 

I wonder how much money was wasted on the design of the new livery?

 

 

Cockpit view with port wing low. What on earth was the pilot up to?