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  1. As we've learned on this site time and time again from real cases, the buck stops with the person/organization which had the duty of care, and breached that duty of care. They knew back in 1932 in the first lawsuit that a woman drinking from a bottle of ginger beer wasn't responsible to see through the opaque bottle that a snail had been accidentally left in the bottle during cleaning.
  2. ........telling her stories of the Great Australian Outback where the Turbines had massive land holdings with millions of sheep and cattle. Vic, as she was known to the Turbine boys was enthralled by the exciting stories so she phoned up the SA Governor and said "Gov, I'm sending two of my sons out to Orstralia and I want you to organise a horse ride from Adelaide to Melbourne." Six months later two miserable little pricks landed at Port Adelaide, were equipped in R. M. Williams gear, and joined the group of stockmen and wagon operators for the trip to Melbourne. The names have been changed in this next part to protect the current families. They rode quite long days from Station to Station where they spent most nights in the luxurious homes in the Colony. One Station owner, John Conlon had his mansion recarpeted in bright red after the Princes left so he could stick it up the outlying Station owners who weren't on the Princes' route. When the Princes rode into Melbourne they were tanned, expert horsemen and wanted to stay, but duty called or more precisely Vic, with her renowned temper sent a letter telling them to get their asses out of the pubs and get home. She was so impressed when her sons returned that she said the Governor could use her name for the local State...and they did. Six months later the Queen invited all the Station hosts to Buckingham Palace to knight them all for the wonderful job they'd done. As they proceeded towards the sword the Queen would ask their name, and when they said "Syd Smith" and kneeled, the Queen would tap them on the shoulder and say "Arise, Sir Sydney Smith" When it was John Conlan's turn, she asked his name and the pompous mysogenist who would have preferred a King said "MR John Conlan!" The Queen with her notoriously short fuse, tapped him on the shoulder and said "Arise MR John Conlan." A similar thing happened ........
  3. No, RAA only handle single engine aircraft.
  4. You must have you missed the hundreds of discussions on the reason CASA wouldn't even think of indemnifying them. The reason RAA and every other high risk sporting activity has to pay its own way followed ALL governments, State, Territory, Commonwealth moving in bipartisan unison to off load the growing legal costs from liability directly onto the people who were engaged and caused the costs. Before the change to Company status one of the board members told us they were just one case away from bankruptcy, then the accident cases dropped off and they could breathe again. Claims fluctute a lot more than the accidents themselves so it must be very hard to budget for.
  5. If you're a a Member for RAA, I'd suggest you go onto their site and see the RAA classes available, even if you're not, there should be some information there if you're interested in entry level aircraft. FAA Part 103 is based on the US legal system; ours is based on the Australian system, so before condemning the industry, best to see what you can legally fly. If anyone thinks they can talk to a politician and he'll immediately say "No Problems mate, I'll get that through for you. there are procedures they follow and they involve referring to the same paperwork I'm suggesting.
  6. Well you need to go onto the site and make some inquiries. It looks as if things are OK to me, but others are seeing different things. Maybe ask Benjamin what's happening?
  7. OK, that's another subject; are you interested in what might happen to RA following this current action or not?
  8. Yes, sorry I just looked more closely at the photos of Hard Copy magazines; they are from long ago but the site has current dates and events heppening over the next few months.
  9. Ben is still CEO, good magazine looking very professional.
  10. floor. Sometimes the bombs hit the floor which wasn't much fun. The A7 engine had been chosen because it only had two crank bearings which made it very flexible. It was Turbo's great grandfather Harry Turbine, who did the head and exhaust extractors and designed the engines mounts and fitted the Sceet and Sh!t. The finished aircraft was designated B1 by Harry's Factory which he built in France because when the B1s were built it look longer to get them going and fix up all the Sceet breakages and stuff The B1 was the world's first stealth bomber [this is still Classified information, so NES readers are asked to keep it quiet]. By the time it had climbed to altitude the A7 engine has either snapped the crank or seized, so the attack was done in silence and the German troops would be quaffing their rum, eating roast beef and telling funny stories when "THUD" there was an Australian bomb right beside them in the trench. History has told the story of valiant pilots in WW2 nursing dead aircraft home across the English Channel, but no one's allowed to talk of the B1 boys who struggled to get their lifeless kites across the Somme. Harry went on to build the B2, B3, B4, B4 MKII, and so on. It was the Wing of B9's on the morning of D Day that caused Hitler to say "SHEIZEN!, WE ARE XXXXXX!!!!!" and order his tanks to stay well back out of the range where the Germanns knew the engines would start seizing. NES readers will know that "authentic" accounts of D Day all mention Hitler unbelievably halting his Panzers behind the French coast, but this was the classified reason. Harry Turbine built many more B bombers for the British and Americans including the B29 which had Cadillac-Turbine engines. The B29 could fly on two engines which was proven time and time again when 1 or 2 would always seize on the mission. After the war the old B1s were brought home to England where people bought them, stripped the armour plate out and called them "Microlights". This was the beginning of .......
  11. .......cook breakfast for a husband. He was captured by the Boers, and they called him "Piggy iggy" so he escaped and got into the next country where he gave the Boers the finger and went back to England to pick on the Australians, but...............
  12. In the big mix some people are good, some people are corrupt, some people play politics, and some people sit there scratchimg their bums and let it happen. In this case the story so far hasn't got any traction, probably because people checked the facts and took out GA Aircraft, Paragliders, Crop Dusters etc. from the emotional claim and saw that just 6 people had died in RA. In this case it appears the media may have released what was given to them by the interviewees. If that's the case it would be of concern to all RAA members. If the 6 is correct and the 9000 paying members are correct, that's a fatality rate of 6 per 9,000 thousand for the 12 months, and I would think some of the other sections of the Industry might require more urgent action than RAA, but that's another story requiring all the figures to be pulled together in 12 month Jan-Dec blocks. Certainly if you move to PPL standard flying you need PPL standard training, but you can't afford to lose grass-roots training or you'll have no grass roots. Arguing that one section is safer than another requires the collection of a lot of data; no point in any one person making judgements based on what they alone have seen. There would be no point in having one specialist journalist because aviation is a huge industry spread all over Australia, and reporting usually starts with a phone call from one of the services that "there's an aircraft crash out at the eight mile etc." so the journalist needs to get there, a photographer needs to get there, and the journalist asks questions then writes the story. If the journalist asks what brand of aircraft it is and the local firey says "Cessna" that's what's in the story. Investigative journalists, usually employed only in the Capital Cities will research the Industry they are investigating, seek out specialists, find data on processes, and track a corrupt person etc. Parachute results fit into the Aircraft Specification research, and if that's done correctly there will be an answer one way or the other.
  13. .......ee. Keir of course was a jogging mate of Turbo hen they went to school at entorth. Turbo had often ondered ho "Special K" was getting on because he as certainly slo in the English classes. Australia has become the political Latte set of British Prime Ministers with Boris teaching Latin and crapping on (not you Cappy) about hen he as going to in an election and become PM. Not many people know that inston Churchill himself trained with the Australian Army at est Puckapunyal en it only had a fe bomb craters and ..........
  14. Embarrassed that he may finally have made a mistake, Turbo went back to the original map and found it should have read "kitty sand" This map shows many new features Australians didn't know about, the author: skye bull, 2025.
  15. Worse than the journalists!
  16. Should have read not a lot of the I
  17. Its a good sign when a journalist corrects things as new information comes in.
  18. .....victim; a poor traveller just trying to do the right thing by his customers who are the most ............. Hi, I'm Samanth. How may I help?
  19. It's interesting that the chatbots seem to be set up by the Company's Ad Agency and the AI runs out of gas when the advertising material plus a few more sentences run out; we can get the A, but a lot of the I.
  20. .......AirOar. Boaties used to wave their oars in the air laughing when they saw Orville T standing on the said waiting for that sea breeze to subside. The breakthough came when Orville T was talking to a fellow student Mathisa Einsten who got interested, cracked the numbers and said, "If you got 150 oars in a row and moved them forward the thrust would be greater than....... but youg OneShaft broke in with "you could tie them onto the spokes of wagon wheels. The others all chuckled but Orville spent a few nights over his parchments by the light of a bullock-fat candle re-did Einstein's calcs and set up an axle with four oars, ran a fitted a flat pulley in the centre and ran a belt down to a Steam engine powered by distilled gin. He built a dreaw bar behind the engine and hooked up an onld baby's pram from where he could reach the steam engine's knobs and levers. He knew he had something when he started passing horses and carriages down the main street. He knew there were a few "issues" to sort out when he ran off the bridge on the curve at the end of the street. But there was no doubt that a new era of the AirOar had started and ........
  21. Did you get an answer from the ABC journalist?
  22. ........wing, which he had developed over a period of 17 years. He started with the original Drifter wing which, as everyone knows...............
  23. Your aircraft according to your detractors.
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