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  1. Marty_d
    Another good description I read was "a midget flogging half a ton of future dog food".
  2. Marty_d
    Well said.
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    They've used them on the Hobart - Melbourne route for quite a while. I liked them, the 2+3 seating layout meant you had half the chance of getting a middle seat. Plus they seemed a bit quieter than the 737's and A320's.
  4. Marty_d
    The clips were good, but the narrator was bloody annoying. Especially when he kept calling runways "roads" and referred to a B-52 as "another KC135 tanker"...
  5. Marty_d
    I'm sure it's been done before... but....
  6. Marty_d
    Let me guess the audio... "This'll be close." *CRUNCH* "Shit! Ah well... she'll be right!"
  7. Marty_d
    That's a fair old whack. There's no way he didn't know he hit something.
  8. Marty_d
    Look like a lot of fun. Bet farmers who currently use helicopters to muster stock are watching that video and wondering about costs.
  9. Marty_d
    Great watch, thanks Brendan!
  10. Marty_d
    Thanks Bob. And looking at that last photo, I've just discovered where I left my glasses...
  11. Marty_d
    If I get a spill and it damages the top window I might - but I'm not going to change it out just in case.
  12. Marty_d
    Not much travel on the nosegear, it has the rubber "hockey puck" suspension so pretty stiff.
  13. Marty_d
    Finally finished the cover. Took many hours of sewing - in fact I'd be happy to never use a sewing machine again! I should have just paid the money, it's given me an appreciation of how much work goes into these things. Quite happy with the results though.
  14. Marty_d
    Reporting at its best... "The student miraculously escaped injury after a low speed runway excursion".... Well if it was low speed, what's so miraculous about escaping injury??
  15. Marty_d
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/light-plane-sunshine-coast-emergency-landing/104432546
  16. Marty_d
    One of them is going the wrong way Gareth! (Just kidding, I know you haven't tightened them yet)
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    Interesting noseleg with the 4 wheels in line. Anyone know why they did it that way instead of a 2x2 formation?
  18. Marty_d
    He might have been vet-ed at some point in his life. Where there's a quill there's a way...
  19. Marty_d
    They can put on a turn of speed when they have to. Good spotting to see one trundling across the runway.
  20. Marty_d
    Why??
  21. Marty_d
    Sure it wasn't their dodgy search? I looked for "Avdel Avex" + Enter and got Cherry rivets and a rivnut airgun. However just "Avdel Avex" without pushing Enter shows a selection of the right rivets.
  22. Marty_d
    https://vintageaviationnews.com/vintage-aviation/worlds-only-dc-3-on-floats-takes-to-the-skies.html
  23. Marty_d
    As someone who just spent $25k getting our driveway resurfaced, I can sympathise with the owners of that airfield.
  24. Marty_d
    On ze neck of a young voman.
  25. Marty_d
    I'm not planning to go to a club. My neighbour up the road (where my real plane is currently, taking up most of their shed) has a paddock with a nice slope down to a valley, which it'd be great to fly over. So I'm just going to use it locally. This design is pretty good for transporting though - the wings come apart, they get their strength from carbon fibre tubes which extend out to the start of the tip dihedral. So one wing's tube just slides into the other's and they get bolted down to the fuselage together. There's a small servo for each aileron with the wire coming out into the fuse and joined with a Y connector.
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