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- Birthday 24/07/1902
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PA28 LSA55, J160, J170, V115, AA5B, C210
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....up with the idea of riveting one end of a bra string to the prop tip and the other just to the side of the spinner. She looked a little out of balance at first but the plane flew well and was often seen.....
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..took out his No 2 sledge hammer and 20 minutes later he had belted the left side of the aircraft into an aerodynamic shape. The right side had already been given similar treatment by Australia Post. Next he pulled the rather unusual engine out of its box, hosed the chicken dung off it and it slid on to the mounts smoothly. He knew that a least the four mounting holes had been drilled this time and in the correct position. Next came the prop, and in 27 languages the attached description said it was CE compliant, and care should be taken when using it indoors. It only had one blade though..............
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'm always there to help, especially if there's some airtime fiull of ads in it. It had all started when Turbo had seen an add for a cheap Morgan knock-off and figured they could carry four cannisters of napalm if they supercharged the Rotax to suit the high altitudes. So they went to Dave Marles with the plans and a glowing endorsement from OTRecreational, Chung Ling. Dave could see no further than how good these would be operating from the new subs due in 40 years time, so he ordered a couple of hundred. They arrived a couple of days later in cardboard cartons and as Dave undid the shrink wrap on the first pack an instruction sheet fell out. It was printed in 1 pt font, in 63 languages, but not English. That didn't stop Dave; he was from Geelong, but ........
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.....managed to get her into the Mustang and give her some chewing gum. It was about 1 pm the next day that CT noticed the black smoke from the D7 had died away and the ripper was siting up higher (A trained D7 Operator like Turbo would have picked that up during the morning) This was a sure sign that the tynes had word out. CT raised the ripper and started scratching the dirt off with a shovel; the tines has completely worn out in 5 hours of operation. Since OT had given him 5 years warranty on the tynes Ct started unbolting them ready to take photos. His eye fell on the brand; in place of CAT, it read "888 Gold and Treasure Co, Xuen." CT picked up the shotgun, got into the Mustang, and five km out of DG was pulled over by the Highway Patrol. "Good afternoon" said the Officer "Do you have any reason for exceeding the speed limit by 55 km/hr?" CT started to cry and told him what OT had done to the CAT. "On your way then Sir" the Officer said "and give him an extra charge from me" and they talked Ford for the next half hour. When CT finally arrived in Onesville, WA he held the ripper tyne up and attempted to ram it down OT's throat, but it snapped in half and they both started to laugh.........
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......and of course by definition, One Track is the collection of sprockets, rollers and grousers on one side of a bulldozer and from there ......
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".........very sore after lifting 25 D7s on to the old Bedford, I'm thankfull I'd read that ancient book and learnt how they did it when they built their home from giant rocks." Both Cappy and Turbo knew that this wasn't the day to question OT, and they knew about the wrath of a WA high flier from being there the day Bob Hawke said to Alan Bond, "Im not going to give you $13 million taxpayer funds for a fool's errand like that har,har,ha OW!, you little XXXX!!!!", and the rest is history. This morning, hoping for a new day, new mood Turbo served Cappy with some fresh Corn Flakes and Cappy put a shot of Glenfiddoch in OT's hot milk. The air was electric and wasn't in need of a charging station any time soon [topical reference], and into this delicate situation stomped.......
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....episode of nervous tension, it's when the great Albert Einstein gets confused about his lines. He of course wasn't a King and never wanted to be, but since, at the age of 3 weeks he had told his mother to get off the booze because she was only giving him 13/16 of the milk he needed to grow fast he had always wanted to push the boundaries of mathematics, or as some people say Matematics. It was in Grade 1 when his teacher said "Now kiddies, we are going to learn today that one and one makes two" and little Al had said "Not always" that people knew he had a gift, or more precisely the teacher rushed into the staff room at morning tea time and slammed the kettle onto the table, yelling "that XXXXXX Einstein kid is correcting me again!" These deep thoughts had been started by a bad batch of vindaloo, and Cappy was thinking it was lucky that Bombay No3 curry hadn't been on the menu, when OT walked in, threw his Chinese 888 jacket on the floor, kicked off his No 8 tennis shoes with the yellow soles, flung his Temu watch into the spittoon, and would have taken off his Pleasant Dreams jocks if Turbo hadn't calmed him down with some genuine New Delhi whiskey. Cappy approached him cautiously and asked "..............
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Bunnings. Very good question, I'm hitting the books now.
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turboplanner started following New Zealand Supersonic and Zonsen Aero Engines - Rapture Aviation (Adelaide)
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........the achievements of Benjamin Franklin, Nigel Farage, Albo Einstein and our own AHlocks on the grounds that none of these were digital people who use AI, or copilot. Ahlocks should be taken out of this equation (see photos of Albo's blackboard), because he still reads social media 14 hours a day, but Mrs AHlocks took his keyboard off him 7 years ago and the great man has been silenced ever since. Turbo had been talking about this to Albo at a Matematics Convention in Las Vegas, and Albo ran his fingers through his ample white hair and said "......................
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.....this could lead to digititis, and issue in computers where there was too much keyboarding, which overloaded the digital system and led to .....
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3 more gone too soon. Near Maffra 16/11/24
turboplanner replied to BirdDog's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
There is a long thread on this subject on the site including the different g loads in turns (so there's no point in thinking a single speed is all you need to know; you'll just fall into a stall on a steeper turn and so on; but the biggest consensus was on your suggestion about going for specific training on unusual attitudes/upset recovery and several people did the training and swore by it. -
....left digit; a sure sign that he had been......
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RC Aircraft. There's a film on a kid who built one about 40 years ago. Scaling up is the problem.
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.....atreum. Turbo had been a Junior News Spotter at hthe Bombay Journal before he signed up for the Khyber and now he remembered there was a controversial lawsuit about a Hindi who had used a similar beard to entice ............
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3 more gone too soon. Near Maffra 16/11/24
turboplanner replied to BirdDog's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
Good information. I learnt the hard way trying to do a 90 deg turn in a Chipmunk. If the instructor hadn't been on board I would have drilled it into the ground, having no idea of what was happening. Haven't spent the need to demonstrate the 90 deg turn like my uncle demonstrated to me.