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  1. .........Then there was the guy who bought Ford oil hose from Supercheap, and down he went. Good forced landing but a lot of damage. I can remember him saying "God made sh!t; Ford turned it into cars.
  2. ..........not happy with these unflattering tattoos, blown up even more when viewed up through the water, and although they couldn't speak or understand written language, they knew what fat was; most of them dieting on sea cabbage for most of their lives trying to get down to mermaid size. They could see the turtles given batter feed and treatment so they herded and waited.............
  3. ...a lot of other houses as well apparently. Mountain Passes South Africa (Action photo of the day) where Lucy innocently asks: "What's happening to the road at the bottom of the photo?" Las Vegas Athletics Club (reversed photo) RAF A400 following the road 4 years ago r/aviation Airlines.Net 4 years ago Pinterest - several Tranquil Flight Scene Jet refuelling over landscape [really] Qatar Airways Wallpaper Linkedin Defence Express
  4. ......assist and educate the local extinct tribespeople on how to become rich beyond their dreams. As TENT and Flagon's PR consultant Cappy Cook IX put it at the release: "Kill one mother turtle with 300 eggs inside, a good meal for the tribe; catch 10 mothers and let then lay their eggs in our aquaculture tanks - you be like Sultans. Soon the tribes were driving round and round the Community in Lamborghinis.........
  5. .......drawing straws to see who woul be going into the waters but....
  6. .....Turtle him. Turtling was a WA thing until the government outlawed it, and we can't say in public what it actually was or describe it, but ........
  7. fed on the chololate smarties that sent parents insane trying to break up fights between the kids, and fish guts from the professional fishermen who frequented Monkey Mia after dark and seemed to have some very big Snapper. This got to the ears of WAFISH Inspector Doughtfire. The first night he was on the jetty huddled under a blanket with a beanie on and fishing rod in his hand he was pushed off the jetty, probably because the only ute for a mile had WAFIS "Measure your catch" on it. The second night he covered himself with sand on the beach and breathed through a straw. After a while he decided he needed to go, and cautiously lifted his head to see he was surrounded by ..........
  8. Cleanup Operation (EPANZ35645879654) which required spraying 100% of the Lake Taupo surface and because of the steep hills around it the only airctraft crop sprayers which could do it were the Turbine-Drifter Cropmaster aircraft. On this dangerous operation the Cropmasters were limited to 20 litres of spray, so 30 aircraft were bought on the basis that the NZ Government would offset the cost by reselling them to microlight clubs. The operation was a success and all whitebait were killed. The professional whitebait fishing companies were outraged and went to the government. "You've killed our industry!" they said, "there aren't any whitebait to sell now!" "Well what do you expect" replied the Minister for The Environment. You wanted us to clean up the bloom, and we've cleaned up the bloom!" This wasn't getting them anywhere so a delegation was sent to the Mekong Delta pair for by the fishermen. The first delegation had to be cancelled after the Vietnam Post wrote a story with photos ...........
  9. This is a Chemical Company Ad. It may be approved by FAA, but an owner, pilot of an aircraft should be looking for the approval of the engine manufacturer, who does the failures per 100 engines on the dyno tests. That's not to say the product (a) hasn't been through those tests or (b) would not have passed them.
  10. Hang on, there's the jump from sitting in your aircraft on the trailer and starting the engine to going through ALL the training to RPC first.
  11. BP at Sunbury-Upon-Thames might be pretending to be Yanks, but we're taking about Australian fuels here so that's not adding anything to safety in our country when people are confused and sometimes misled about the correct fuel to use for their aircraft. I was running through the Australian fuel suppliers this afternoon and there are 88 different companies with from 1 to 1540 outlets Of these there really was a Mogas with 19 outlets servicing Regional South Australia and Northern Territory. OTR was the owner and was acquired by Viva Energy on April 2, 2024.
  12. If you study CASA history you will see what the Endorsements were, and how they were dropped. If you go on the RAA site you will see that they do have some endorsements but just a few.
  13. The engines and carburtors were designed for that. With a kero tractor you would get the best result by turning the kero off and just as the engine stuttered, turning the petrol on so it ran on the petrol and kero residue. Start the next morning was instant on petrol and when the engine was warm the taps were reveresed; petrol off, Kero on. On the diesel tractors the fuel cutout was pulled at the end of the day. The next morning the decompression lever was pulled up, throttle to idle and the engine started on petrol for 3 or 4 minutes then both levers were slammed down for a spectactular roar in the bigger models and you were ready for work. It was a nuisance filling with two fuels, and that process was followed by the dedicated diesel where glow plus in each cylinder were held on for 30 seconds or so and there was enough heat to fire the diesel. However, this interchangeability of fuels is a red herring. As a pilot your issue is an engine failure. So your concern is what causes an engine failure and using fuel other than that specified by the manufacturer is the start of where you don't want to go. You may be lucky and get a No Start, so no crash. You may not and get a blockage in the fuel line, the carb, of if fuel injected, in enough injectors to stop the engine.
  14. I'll give you an example; Australia was not able to introduce a CO2 emission level (so Australian cars had no maximum enission level for CO2, like they did for NOx and PM), because fuel quality plays a big role in CO2 test results. You could build a very efficient engine, but the fuels being imported into Australia were so bad that we couldn't get stable CO2 results. In the finish the automotive industry and the fuel industry got together and made an agreement on the standard of fuel which would be imported into Australia goinng forward and it's that agreement that allows Australian suppliers to quote a CO2 output. A second example was diesel distillate where the imported standard being sold in Australia was one of the lowest in the world.
  15. The fuel you use in your engine should NEVER be chosen from a social media platform; NEVER. If your engine stops, you are going down and several people who commented on this site, are no longer with us to emphasise that point. Manufacturers list fuel and oil specifications. They are based on failures per 100 engines, so the manufacturer's recommendation will give you potentially the longest life. It's quicker to get an answer from the manufacturer (not the dealer, because the dealer may get tangled up in the same things as social media posters), than is is to try to pick a winner from the posts. That's the engine. Some car manufacturers will sign off their engines for Ethanol, but they note that they are doing that after signing off the whole car - everywhere the fuel sits or goes. So, for example, If Rotax sign off on ethanol in an engine, that doesn't mean you can use methanol, unless you've gone through every item when the fuel sits or moves to ensure every component is ethanol-proof. No good having an Ethanol-approved engine if it's sucking up a soup of molten plastics and shuts down. As some have mentioned, in selecting a fuel on the market for your country, the RON rating has to also meet the engine specification. And as a guide, whenever you see someone say "I use X", bin the information, unless he adds, after dyno testing 153 engines with this exact same specifications. I can remember one poster here who would post the engine he used and argue they were totally reliable if you did x, Y, and z. (which cost around a thousand dollars. The engines still failed and so did his.
  16. And Ross is that the genuine Mogas or has someone icorrectly labeled the pump?
  17. A subscription to ERSA may cost a lot less, and with ERSA you get updates.
  18. So, with OT's explanation are you going to stop using the US "Mogas"
  19. Mogas is sold in the USA. It doesn't mean anyting not-avgas, it's a specific fuel. Mogas is not sold in Australia. Our refining for cars, trucks, tractors, stationary engines if different to the USA.
  20. ....flatly denied the story and claimed that NewZealand Whitebait only ate the cleanest food after it had been naturally cleansed by Lake Taupa bacteria. However a Camera Team from "David Turbine's World" (c) showed the whitebait guzzling S ................
  21. ovelled S..........
  22. The guy in this video also has the wind shear in a very convenient position allowing him to convert to a landing but where the wind shear starts is random and I’d say your instructor took advantage to teach instant reaction and flying the aircraft out of trouble.
  23. ........UBob would have to pay to keep the rivers clean to protect the native whitebait. This reduced UBob's profit to a small allowance per year. Turbo flooded the NZ whitebait market with cheaper whitebait from the Mekong Delta, so Cappy's lease on all the rivers was burning him, and bull hired a bunch of ........
  24. .......become the property of UBob. Cappy, who had a nose for corruption more sensitive than a Bollodhound immediately smelled a rat. Well he didn't smell a rat, but he knew that soundrel mut have picked up in the pre-meetings of the NES Committee that there ws going to be a takeover of the NZ rivers. He ...........
  25. .be good for spraying the quarter-acre paddocks of the land of the Long Weekend, although the screaming sound may eventually drive the Kaua Kaua birds extinct, and it has been said that when the last Kaua Kaua leaves the mountains ..........
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