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    also including modifications where the pilots seat was firmly attached to the trailing edge with old truck tie-down straps, to minimise unexpected excursions from the planned heading.
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    As a follow on to that, this was an interesting video relating to the Spitfire and it's pilots, also filmed at Duxford.
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    When i started flying, I felt the same as you until after take-off, when the instructor said "you have control", things then changed for me and I felt so much better. I assume it was due to having to concentrate on the job in hand, rather than worrying about the lumps and bumps in the air which I seemed to forget about.
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    Very sad. I imagine you are possibly referring to the incident at Panorama House. If so, I saw where the rotor blades had clipped a tree just a few metres above the ground, and one would think that it may well have survived albeit damaged, had the fuel tanks not gone up. A tragic outcome, and others that were similar.
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    Thanks for posting that kiwiaviator. Unfortunately, it's seems to be a fact of life that if you buy the cheapest of almost anything, you need to have some aside for the risks that you take. Not that that would help the final outcome of many sad incidents. I like many, have flown in them a good number of times, but always have some doubts in the back of my mind. Too many parts in my view all relying on one another to keep them aloft.
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    Lot's of elbow grease gone into that. Well done! A fresh coat of paint should be a good motivator for you too.
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    Maybe PIC was IFR trained, (I follow roads)
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    https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/when-the-runway-runs-out-9274426/ Good to see that it survived it's runway excursion.
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    That's true! and would halve the distance for it to travel. Not sure if it still comes from Clyde.
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    Possibly things have changed in the fuel supply network OME. Many years ago I did the automatic security gates at the JUHI fuel installation at Kingsford Smith Sydney Airport next to the international terminal, and they had a direct pipeline to the refinery at Clyde. I looked after the complex for many years. I was told back then, that due to underground water from the Cooks River, much of the airport was actually slowly sinking, which made one think about the security of underground pipes. In fact the the area surrounding the adjoining office had sunk to the point that it became necessary to have an additional new step built to get into the offices, whereas it had once been level. The building is still there, so all's well that ends well, they say.
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    OMG! You can almost hear the announcements coming. "Flight No XXX now has an expected departure of XXX, as the fuel truck is delayed in heavy traffic on Camden Valley Way". "She'll be right" as the saying goes. 😜
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    Don't get the premium mixed up with the kero, it slows me down a bit 🤬
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    All's well that ends well they say.
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    Life's tough for some, but someones gotta do it, and the weather looks great,
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    This tread is becoming a piddle riddle.
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    Many decades ago I supplied photoelectric beams to control automatic flushing of urinals at Zurich Airport, and they all had a fly etched into the back, so there was something to aim at.
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    Hopefully, it'll also tell you where to buy a few stripes to stitch on your shoulders before you venture off, just to give you that extra confidence 😀
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    You and me both Marty !
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    https://www.9news.com.au/world/mississippi-plane-walmart-threat-pilot-arrested/a900fed6-807c-48d3-976f-81c95adbc4d7 This is sad news, unfortunately there are are many troubled people in the world at the moment. The outcome could have been a lot worse.
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    planedriver commented on red750's aircraft in Sea Planes

    As a youngster and out on my uncles boat in Poole Harbour UK, we were invited to go aboard for a look around one, just before it was towed to be scrapped at nearby Lower Hamworthy. http://www.pooleflyingboats.com/archive/10 A Flying Boat Finale at Poole from 1953.pdf
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    planedriver commented on red750's aircraft in Sea Planes

    Spot on Nev. Last service was flown on 10Th September 1974.
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    planedriver commented on red750's aircraft in Sea Planes

    As a slight thread drift, I have a huge (6ft long) photo adorning my lounge room wall of Sunderland VH-BRF coming into land on the lagoon at Lord Howe Island back in 1974. These old aircraft had quite interesting history's, and VH-BRF was no exception if anyone is interested reading about it in the attached link. https://aussieairliners.org/shortfb/vh-brf/vhbrf.html
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    You mean
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    Hopefully we'll know what happened soon.
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    https://www.forces.net/technology/aircraft/what-mach-loop-and-why-it-ideal-fighter-jet-training
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