Jump to content

Old Koreelah

Moderators
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    6,237

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    55

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Old Koreelah

  1. Old Koreelah
    Like this one I photographed over Darwin years ago:
  2. Old Koreelah
    That makes sense, but is opposite to my experience riding in rain and 100% humidity, when I’d always get my best fuel economy… But maybe that had more to do with more careful twisting of right wrist.
  3. Old Koreelah
    Very nice. I found the planes interesting as well.
  4. Old Koreelah
    This historic clipping turned up recently: about our well-know local Dr. winning this race in 1975. Abe was a keen aviator and set up a small airline at Quirindi Airport. His small fleet of aircraft carried passengers between Quirindi, Gunnedah, Tamworth and Sydney for several years. His hangar is now used by our local air spray business. John Henry, also mentioned in the clipping, built our club’s hangar and used it as a flying school. This clipping will be a useful resource for our History of flying in the Quirindi District which I am researching with a couple of other locals. This is something many places should do before too many more old hands fall off the twigs and their precious memories are lost to history. Like many other places, our little town had a visit from Smithy, who landed The Old Bus on a local hillside and took people for joy flights.
  5. Old Koreelah
    That can happen on the ground. Coming home from the Alpine Rally thru late night fog, the fairing on my Ducati and my helmet quickly built up a thick coating of very rough ice.
  6. Old Koreelah
    Can we have a pic, Yenn?
  7. Old Koreelah
    If you need somewhere to test it, YQDI needs a camera and our neighbour is building a new hangar, the perfect mounting point.
  8. Old Koreelah
    I never liked the look of wheel pants; to be effective, they need to be large and carefully designed. I built mine as part of streamlining efforts. Got the glide ratio up from about 1:7 to almost 1:10, which should make a difference if things go quiet. Testing with and without the spats showed a respectable reduction of over 10% in fuel burn and about 4% more speed, so they work. But… if I land on a black soil paddock they might block up with mud and lead to a nose over. One reason all this wet weather has put a dampener on my flying.
  9. Old Koreelah
    Westlands did; bloody ugly result:
  10. Old Koreelah
    …That’s why my Jodel wings are bent up at the ends!
  11. Old Koreelah
    Not many super-rich do. Too busy making money.
  12. Old Koreelah
    Insanely intricate design and machining! Much simpler to copy birds, with a few large feathers making up the outer wing. Able to be slightly twisted to control roll and to be spread to massively vary the outer wing area. Now all I have to do is develop incredibly light, strong, self-repairing feathers…
  13. Old Koreelah
    My V1 flight was awesome until about a mile off Manly Beach the engine stumbled momentarily. That got my attention. The little Jab was working hard to climb up to the next legal level, but I’d forgotten to switch on the boost pump.
  14. Old Koreelah
    A female engineer fixed this problem, helping to win the Battle of Britain. https://www.kenleyrevival.org/content/history/women-at-war/beatrice-shilling-revolutionising-spitfire
  15. Old Koreelah
    Perhaps. I totally agree about the historic context, but lets not forget the complete stuff-ups by the communists which led to tens of millions dying in famines. I’m sure that without a strong central government there would have been great turmoil and loss of life, but also great innovation and enterprise- in both of which The Middle Kingdom has led the world. To see what China might have become without a communist government, just look across the water at little Taiwan; 25 million people who rapidly built an economic and technological powerhouse while the mainland communists wasted decades with ideaologically-driven economic disasters.
  16. Old Koreelah
    Cursed with a brain that refuses to adapt to someone else’s way of thinking, I developed my own flight plan form. It has way too many columns, but enough space for all the important stuff, especially if the iPad dies:
  17. Old Koreelah
    A Constant Velocity carb is even more interesting because (as I understand it) the slide is pushed up by the pressure of incoming air and falls down again under its own weight, or is pushed down by a spring; the slide pulls the tapered needle up and down in the main jet, automatically adjusting the mixture to the varying velocity of incoming air (hence the name). The slide would therefore pulse up and down at half the speed as the piston (assuming one carb per cylinder). It’s amazing that CV carbs with a rubber diaphragm don’t need a new one every week.
  18. Old Koreelah
    Kasper I fly with a pair of leather driving gloves cut so the two main fingers are free to feel stuff; bit cold, but works okey. These are my new rescue gloves with special finger tips that work my iPad and phone screens:
  19. Old Koreelah
    Good point, but how wide is this Lane? Unlike the Willie bypass, there’s no indication of width on the charts.
  20. Old Koreelah
    Nice video, but you’re a long way offshore; on my Victor One trip we were looking in people’s front windows.
  21. Old Koreelah
    This one wasn’t me, but it was someone’s latest flight: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-57660603
  22. Old Koreelah
    Can’t see the windsock.
  23. Old Koreelah
    Hotel air conditioning systems were never designed to isolate individual rooms. They would most likely spread the new, more contageous variants like wildfire.
  24. Old Koreelah
    Australia has several empty mining towns with airport, lots of accommodation and facilities; easily turned into quarantine facilities. As well, we have similar facilities set up for refugees and illegals; why has our national government not made use of them?
  25. Old Koreelah
    I too enjoyed watching that project. I had a tiny role in the building of another Hornet at the Taree factory (they allowed me to pull one rivet) and was impressed by the happy, unhurried workers doing a meticulous job. The fuselage is built as solid as a landcruiser.
×
×
  • Create New...