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    BUT my " stanley plane " is too heavy to fly . And My electric " rotary plane " is too short on the cord . LoL OH , to fly my HummelBird , & Soar like an eagle. " Such is life " . spacesailor
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    But , were oh were , is that U T City ? . We all know that Greenwich is in London England ! . And is marked into the floor , But why is it 'Mean ' . spacesailor
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    CASA' s lawyerspeak is sending me ! CRAZEY Will that no., 2 medical fix me up. OR is it just B S , that means more Money to friends in higher places than me . spacesailor
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    C C '' Just search for UTC on your phone clock. This is a simple way to confirm local time to UTC particularly around daylight savings changeover. '' If we all use UTC ! , Then we ALL have our clocks are set WRONG . and those ' school hours ' will be costing us Big $ fines . So I'll keep my clocks on local standard & winter time to stay in bed longer , on those cold winter mornings .😃 spacesailor
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    But , I , as an RAA student DID learn P & O ! . We have to know how far the fuel we put in the tank , the take off weight , L p hour fuel use, weather ( MET ) at next stop .Which includes N A V , Oaks / Mittagong / Kiama coalcliff / Mountannan & back to the Oaks . AND I FAILED ,! . C & E ! . We just called it LAW . Had to know ALL the Rule's & Regulations . SO you say it's just our Vocabulary, you don't like ? . spacesailor
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    Did you say " Casa didn't make " those rules we live by ! . Like enforcing the ' wing load rule ' in 95-10 . I don' see that rule on any other aircraft ! . Only the old AUF models. spacesailor
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    Doesn't have to be , '' going pear shaped '' . Howards (rotovator ) Parramatta . was given a substantial $ incentive to move his premises . a new Bridge over the JamesRuse road . is occupying the area now. He then retired to the country . I Almost worked for him , But found the premises locked, when I arrived for my 1st days work, in this country . '' “I started with Howard straight out of school as an apprentice at the Northmead site in 1972,” says Robert Balzarolo, who still looks after Howard products today in his role as technical and warranty specialist. '' spacesailor
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    It Is something to do with ' the inclined angle of the wing ' Plane = Angle of attack of wing ! . spacesailor
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    AND !,, What would we do without the ' news ' toilet paper . Go back to wiping with ' Dock-leaves ' , remember they wither & go crispy with age ! . LoL spacesailor
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    That goes all the way back to ' horse & carriage days . Your driver sat at the front to control the horses, the Gentry sat under a roofed canopy. Chauffeur ! when the driver was a professional in His Tailored Livery & not the stable hand. Even the first cars had no cover for the Chauffeur, the windscreen was behind the driver . So he ( alway a male to control big horse power ) could use the ' whip ' . spacesailor
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    When RAA deregister's aircraft , what do they expect ? . Were do those that run fowl of RAA go , if they are not ready to laydown & die for Beauroracy. Palm Island !. spacesailor
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    But were is the " clocks go back " time in the , ? . Shouldn't the 10 hours be 9 or 11 due to the ever changing seasonal time ? . Isn't that the REASON to use GMT/UTC . I lost the plot , & don't know how to write the acronym for daylight saving & daylight losing time . spacesailor
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    Someone ' welded ' that joystick, so would it be such a hard job to cut off the offending 1 1/8" , tube. And replace it with the standard 1 " tube , that will be covered with your ' preferred ' grip . OR Get a Nice piece of wood & cut & shape to fit around your 1 1/8" tube .. ( whittle away a few hours while relaxing ) . Could be two halves ' araldited ' together . Nicer feel to a ' wooden handle ' . Just a thought. spacesailor
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    The original enquiry was from my ' grandaughter ' , who had her first taste of flying , with a tiff flight at Camdem.s , Curtis aviation. I suspect I might have been an ' addon ' for this joyflight . ( hopefully ) . But it may have been for her eldest son , who is at high school. P S the first price seems low . But I don,t think she could afford $ .000 , on a registered nurses pay , hence my enquiry from forum members . spacesailor
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    This forum is a little STALE ,. So Is anyone willing to give other forum members a joy flight , Seems silly but when you check the professional hire,ers they want a reasonable price for ONE person to go , ' Victor 1 ' , But double for two then triple for three . Come on , it doesn,t cost that much for the extra pax !. About, $ 370 for one $740 two pax, $ then $1000s for three pax . I know RAA doesn,t allow making money but REASONABLE EXPENCES goes a long way , to make people happy. Just thought I would put it out , spacesailor
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    Most ' outlaying stations have lots or drummed fuel carted in . I once asked to acquire one or two empty drums, but was told '' every one has a use on a station '' . I managed to pick one up & has a third of diesel in it, from whenever it drops to a very low price, ( a $ 1 ) a litre . spacesailor
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    '' CRAZY IDEA! The Northrop XP-79 ‘Flying Ram’ was a bizarre attempt to make an aeroplane that disabled enemy craft by colliding into them in mid-air. The product of a long line of all-wing fighters originally envisioned by the founder of Northrop, the XP-79 was doomed from the start and quite predictably ended in disaster! . As he floated down to earth the glider started to come towards him but luckily missed, going on to crash into the desert . only a few meters from where Crosby landed. https://planehistoria.com/experimental/northrop-xp-79/. '' spacesailor oddballaircraft.txt
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    Well !. The trainee did say that the tail hit the trees & flipped it, But did it invert or nosed in . If nosed in , it is well built to have saved the occupants .. spacesailor
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    More costly than expected !, With RAA membership, Sydney Flying club membership , plus the cost of lessons. At Daves Flying School , you save that flying club membership . that few hundred $ would be a couple of Daves $ 140 advrrtised lessons. spacesailor
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    NOT QUITE !. I thought the Hummel bird was the 'bee's knee's ' of planes . I had already given Aviation away as ' far too expensive ' for a family man . Then , I had the chance to purchase an unfinished & parts hummelbird . That plane of my dreams , so grab it , while it's still there . No worries about the cost of flying , With 2 litres of oil & 20 litres fuel for the day's fun . The unemployed could Almost afford to fly. Then lessons at the Oaks in a Foxbat A22 , I am hooked . I Loved every minute of my flying . Untill a new instructor brought me back to earth with a bang . Only started with " RAF AIR TRAING CORPSE " AT 15 year old . Medically unfit for the RAF due to child desease . So now I sit in my dream machine & fly like an eagle. LoL CHEAPEST FLYING EVER . spacesailor
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    It wasn't designed as an ' ornithopter ' but to use those weird wings as ' air-brakes ' . Which was a brilliant idea . An un-Balanced elevator will have a lot of force , to have to Haul back a large elevator would require lots of muscle power !?. What would happen if those forces were too great for the control linkage . Plus that heavy motor on the nose will mean more up elevator !. & the faster you get , the elevator gets heavier . SLOW TO RISE & quick to Plummet . spacesailor
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    Perhaps those huge elevator's were the cause, over correcting, into a porpoise. spacesailor
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    WOW That was interesting !. I had never heard of the ' Gull ', before, makes me wonder why it was never a centre piece of aviation history . Similar to the ' wright flyer ' . spacesailor
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    Bureaucrats or Aviators . spacesailor
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    T V news ! . " Engine out on take off" , according to trainee pilot , on his second lesson . The tree caught the tail & flipped it upside-down. spacesailor
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