planedriver

, hope i'm wrong.

A customer of mine who''s a cabin manager with Sh*tstar as she calls it, is on a shortlist with another airline as she's fed up with all the crap they have to put up with from disgruntled passengers.

 

I was a slow learner and had 3 out of 4 holidays totally stuffed up by booking with them.

 

Simply Google dontflyjetstar.com, trip advisor, and many others, and you will find so many that share your sentiments.

 

Heavy advertising's a great thing for bringing back the mugs.

 

 

A sure way of getting their claws clipped!

 

 

Super Petrel LS

 

 

,Thank you for your first post, now you've broken the ice, we look forward to hearing more from you, and a few details about your build.

 

I notice that your original post was a few years ago, so how is it progressing?

 

 

Looks great as the rego suggests, that is if you're into flying ceiling fans.

 

 

I'd like to have a go on one, looks like fun, though I doubt the practicality of one getting from airstrip into town on fly-away's.

 

My son found an electric scooter on a council cleanup which I managed to repair, then took it for a ride late at night when no one could see me.

 

As I was flying along the footpaths ducking overhanging bushes, I thought to myself "bloody old fool, what are you doing? you'll end up like the kid with a new bike who said "look Mum no hands", next minute it was " look no teeth".

 

 

My mother-in-law must know something you guy's don't.

 

 

When on a short shore escursion in Portland, Sth Australia last year, our bus driver who had worked at Port Headland smelting plant for many years, took us to see wind generators close up. His mate who has two on his property said they take about 25yrs to pay for themselves providing they have no breakdowns and are not real flash in calm conditions. He didn't care because what he was paid to have them on his land, paid for two real good holidays each year.

 

A few months ago in Sth West England you could see where so many farmers were no longer growing crops, and field after field was filled with thousands of solar panels. No doubt financially advantageous for the farmers, but to replace what was originally grown there, now has to be imported from somewhere else.

 

In many cases overcoming one shortfall in the supply chain, creates other problems of equal importance.

 

 

Who cares!

 

Rgds

 

Harrison Ford.

 

 

No mate, Lisle Street behind the Hippodrone Theatre. They had lot's of goodies there.

 

 

Geez!, now your stirring the memory. The very first "galloping ghost" system that I made, was using acorn valves from army surplus walkey-talky's from that era purchased from Government Surplus shops in London's seedy Soho..

 

Crude as they were,with rudder fluttering one way and then the other as the mark-space ratio varied to stick inputs, they did work at the time, but the young-un's of today who are familiar with digital proportional might think we are a bunch of dinosaurs.

 

Shh! . NO FURTHER COMMENT!

 

 

A lot more to it than a Keil-Kraft kit eh!

 

Well done mate, you are an inspiration to others for sure.

 

Rgds. Planey

 

 

Not sure what happened there, but this was the link.

 

http://archive.pooleflyingboats.com/10 A Flying Boat Finale at Poole from 1953.pdf

 

 

Just found this on Google for anyone inthttp://archive.pooleflyingboats.com/10%20A%20Flying%20Boat%20Finale%20at%20Poole%20from%201953.pdferested in the old flying boats.

 

It was interesting to me, hope it is to others.

 

 

When I was a kid, my uncle who was pretty wealthy and who owned one of the Islands in Poole Harbour, took us out on his boat and we came right alongside a couple of flying boats moored there. I was too young to know exactly what type they were, but we were allowed on board and had a look around. Sadly they were moored there temporarily before going to be scrapped. I'd guess that would have been around 1952 or 3?

 

 

Hi Phil,

 

Thought you might like the giant photo that adorns my lounge room wall. (Sorry mate, should have called it the sitting room)

 

VH-BRF landing at Lord Howe Island back in 1974.

 

Kind Regards, Planey.

 

 

Came across this one on Youtube today. Thought i'd post it for our mate Nev 1@facthunter[/uSER] to bring back a few memories.

 

Rgds Planey.

 

 

 

You're being a bit cruel to us seniors. Stop chuckling you bugger!

 

 

OMG Peter. I'm so sure I know what it is. But as we all get older

 

 

One of the members on here has a strip on his property that he refers to as Heathrow Airport. Not sure that he'd need the terminal though for when some of his mates fly in.

 

 

, there should be plenty of places on the east coast where you can get the time you require.

So sorry that i missed it, as my partner and I were in Queenstown and nearby Arrowtown only two weeks ago.

 

Next time, i'll pick the dates we travel.. Grrrr!

 

 

And for once the media got the aircraft type correct.