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Must have bloody strong spars to withstand those G forces. Lot of pressure with long glider wings.

Good picture Peter. We had a chopper doing powerline inspections around here a couple months back, despite him being about 100ft from me the pictures were crap!

Back to the point of the cops using the check-in app - (sorry I came to the party late) - there's some commentary above along the lines of "anything that catches criminals is a good thing". I think that misses the point. The problem with the cops using checkin data is not the breach of privacy or anything else - it's that the system depends on people trusting it for them to use it. If you take away that trust by abusing it, then a percentage of the population will stop using the app (even pretend by waving their mobile at the signs, as someone else suggested happens sometimes) and then your whole track & trace system goes down the toilet and we lose one of our best weapons against covid.

Total thread drift - but what amuses me about catholic weddings is the need to get advice from a priest first. Naturally the best person to give advice on married life is someone who will stay single their whole life and is (supposedly) celibate...

I did wonder, but I guess some wedding cakes look like they needed engineer advice.

There's one of those at the Quarry pub, Salamanca Place in Hobart. Quite fun, you can aim at the outdoor patrons.

Best I ever saw was in a service station in Ireland. The door of the toilet faced the car park and the top half was clear glass - no blind or curtain!

Wouldn't you just need 3 thick bits where the wheels will go? Guessing that it ain't going to deviate much if you don't want to bump the wingtips on the way in. There's no weight on any other part of the floor.

Actually, he must be right. If the LIBERAL NATIONAL PARTY government is using the ABC to push their line, then the ABC must be biased. Towards the right. Those dirty, lowdown right-wing bastards at the ABC. I finally understand. For years people have been saying they're biased because they're a bunch of lefties. But it was all a front! The ABC is a right-wing newsrag. Don't listen to them, folks. Go get your news from somewhere a bit more left-leaning... the Spectator, The Australian, the Daily Mail... More irony!! Just saying. Some people can't spot it.

Unlike Sky News, Fox, Facebook, Breitbart, QANON and Foul Ole Ron down the pub - they've got the REAL story and absolutely no barrow to push... * For those that have trouble with irony: The above is ironic. It is NOT true. In fact the total opposite of this is true.

While not taking anything away from his achievement, I noticed that the takeoff was done in one tunnel then he flew in a straight line out into the open air and back into another tunnel. All the time he maintained the same height. It'd be a hell of a lot harder to dive from height then enter a tunnel. The movie versions usually have helicopters doing it - Mission Impossible, Terminator 2 are two that come to mind. (Interestingly, the width of each railway tunnel in the Chunnel is less than the rotor diameter of the MD520N, so not quite sure how that helicopter chasing Tom Cruise got into the tunnel...)

Reckon it'd be a bit expensive for the 701.

Some more wiring today - pulled the pilots seat up and connected up the negative coming from the back of the regulator to one side of the isolator switch, and ran another cable from the other side of the isolator switch to negative terminal of battery. Also ran the positive back to the battery - through a cable gland on pilot's side seat front, then a cable clamp riveted to the floor between seat bottom and main gear, up to another cable clamp riveted to an angled tab on the seat back/bottom L angle, to the battery. The worst part was the battery end of the positive cable - because of the way it's run, had to crimp the terminal in place inside the back of the plane. My crimper is the big bolt-cutter type which when open almost reached both sides of the fuselage - had to remove the flaperon pushrods in order to get close enough! Briefly had cables hooked up to both terminals of the battery (after ensuring the isolator switch was off) in order to tie the last section of negative cable in place. Took them off again before leaving the shed! In the picture looking down inside the seat, the negative cables are actually vertically removed from the flap pushrod.

True, and from pretty much all sides he was a bit of a disappointment. Too progressive for the conservatives, but hamstrung from actually being progressive - so useless to progressives.

Look, if the cows are allowed to...

There's a problem with the line of thinking that a businessman would make a good political leader. I refer you to the USA, 2016-2020...

To all the Dads, Step-Dads, Granddads, and (in Spacey's case at least) Great-Granddads out there! Have a fantastic day and hope your family is nice to you.

Thanks Bob! The push button for low fuel test is on the harness so left that off for now - there's a hole for it in the middle of the main 4 gauges. Haven't got a battery light but there is a gauge for it, middle top in the right cluster.

Yours too Gareth! Three radios?

*YAWN* I need sleep... Tired but happy.

Starter motor lugs it is. I like your setup Mark but I think the Sav has a bit more panel space than the 701. I don't want to lose any legroom so won't put anything below it. Today I pulled the positive cable through to the battery, measured length and cut it. Works out to 2.28m which I'm fairly happy with, I was afraid it would go over 3m. I also drilled out the rivets at the front of the pilot's seat, will need to lift and get below that to fix cable holders etc, and also to join up the isolator switch. On the negative side, (not "bad", just negative!) - I put in another gland through the firewall and ran a short section of 14mm2 from the starter motor lug through the firewall and to the back of one of the bolts holding the regulator on. Will mount the negative bus bar close to that, and also run 14mm2 from that bolt alongside the positive cable until under the pilot seat, where it'll terminate at the isolator switch. Then from other switch terminal to the negative terminal of the battery. I believe that should give a nice solid earth return - happy to take on board any suggestions though! As far as running the cables along the cabin floor under the rudder cable - have others run anything to protect them (eg a cover of some sort) or just left them exposed? Thinking a "top hat" section length of aluminium riveted to the floor may not be a bad idea.

If you have dope, and land in Nimbin, humans will chew your ear until you share.

Precautionary landing due to the engine sounding a little rough? An intermittent problem that thankfully cleared up on a ground run (after you'd emptied your bladder).

Do they have any Czech mates?

Here's one for the anti-vaxxers. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/countless-antivaxxers-and-covid19-hoax-believers-dying-from-the-virus/news-story/081c41083f36cf121a495bafa243e7b5