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    I resemble that remark.
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    I don't think it'd take millions. I'll do it for half a million, OME.
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    That seems a little wasteful, besides the risk of taking your tail off, I can't imagine many of the discarded wings tumbling down were able to be reused!
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    Spotted what looked like a small aircraft carrier tied up at the wharf in Hobart. Turns out it's the USS Tripoli, an amphibious assault ship, with a complement of F35's and Ospreys. All the F35's were below deck but there was an Osprey sitting on top. Didn't take any photos but this ABC news article has a few. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-10/us-navy-uss-tripoli-visits-hobart/101632206
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    I liked the photo from the PPRUNE thread but it leads to a dilemma... if you removed them before flight, would you still fly?
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    Are they lining that up to launch it at another one of their own apartment blocks?
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    Might have something to do with this quote from the Flying article: tried to persuade or require students to join RAAus and get a pilot certificate and then convert it to an RPL, bypassing CASA's minimum standards for RPL
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    Still, I reckon they're sore.
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    Hey Shaz, I notice your profile says Hobart - where are you planning to fly from? Interested as I have a 90% complete CH701 underway and hopefully in the next couple of years be looking for a home airfield. I'm at Allens Rivulet, will PM you my details - if you're ever down my way, feel free to drop in for a coffee and a chat!
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    That $15k sounds really expensive. A few years ago I was looking at buying a 162 Skycatcher from Tyabb and transporting it down here, the quote I got at the time was $1600. Have you looked at buying a container, packing the plane yourself, getting it shipped then selling the container again? It'd fit in a 20' container and I reckon they sell just as well down here as anywhere else.
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    I thought they were cantaloupes though. I'd also have thought the rotor downwash would have more effect on long hair...
  12. Marty_d
    That's brilliant! Can't wait to see the finished skin.
  13. Marty_d
    Maybe they're REALLY strong guys?
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    I don't understand how he managed to start and fly a twin engine aircraft if he wasn't trained as a pilot. Guessing it's got constant speed props too? I wouldn't be able to do that, at least not well.
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    Firstly happy Father's Day to all the dads out there - pretty much most of us I guess, not to mention Granddads and in at least one case (Spacey) Great-Granddads! So while this is not exactly a plane update, it is a shed update which involves the plane, 'cos I can't move the plane until I finish the shed and I can't really work on the plane until I move it. Started the weekend at 6am Saturday, by 8am I had the entire end wall removed, by 9:30 I had the new bay window section in (I had pre-built that over the last few weeks), by the end of Saturday the wall was framed up and mostly rough-sarked to protect the inside from any rain. Today I put the foil on properly and taped the joins then placed the window and screwed the reveal to the frame. Still have to fill and properly seal around the window, then I can put the little roof over the top (got the material for that), then batten out over the sarking and put on the EcoPly cladding. Photos tell the story...
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    For sh*t stirrers and reasonable people alike - Social Australia is the place for that "debate".
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    Just goes to show - sometimes you have to bite the bullet and try it. I've been dithering about fitting gas struts to the doors because I thought it'd be complicated to work out how much they had to lift etc. However I'd bought a couple to hold open a little vertically-opening cupboard door in the shedroom, and I only ended up using one. So I tried the other one on the plane. It works! All of $4.58 from Bunnings (down to $4.50 with PowerPass!)
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    You'd think so, wouldn't you... but I've talked to a helicopter pilot who has spent hours hovering over cherry trees to dry them. I couldn't quite see how that made financial sense either but apparently it made more sense than the crop being lost.
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    Hi, Social Australia is not letting me quote or reply. Instead of having a "Reply" button like I do in Rec Flying, it looks like this: Any ideas? Thanks!
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    I like that - '“The economic impact of the luxury tax will be significant and [has] not been studied with a comprehensive understanding of our industry,” Anthony Norejko, president and CEO of the Canadian Business Aviation Association, argues.' Of course he'd say that wouldn't he! Being president and CEO of the Canadian "Business Aviation Association". Good on them. If you can afford a private jet, you shouldn't mind an extra 10% going to your country.
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    Coroner's findings out for this crash. They're not happy with the ATSB report. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-25/coroner-inquest-pilot-nikita-walker-tasmania-crash/101370152
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    Wouldn't a carbon fibre or fibreglass coating over the wooden prop both strengthen and prevent moisture?
  23. Marty_d
    You're a lucky man!
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    What, like mine?
  25. Marty_d
    I used normal aluminium piano hinge. When you look at it it's riveted every 40mm and the number of connections you have around the wire over the length of the door top mean it would have to be a fairly catastrophic force to pull that off, especially given the rest of the door is only held shut at one or 2 points. Just noticed you're joining to fibreglass fuse, not sure if that makes a difference as my fuse is aluminium, but as far as the hinge goes I'm ok with it being standard ally instead of 2024 / 6061.
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