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Where did this come from Skippy? ETHANOL DOES NOT DAMAGE THE ENGINE??????

Here are two explanations of Bernoulli's principle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP6oqIic4lo The bag doesn't have any way of sucking the air in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=724noDp_cz8

There's no sucking.

characters who have teeth that can bite clean through a finger as Turbo can attest when he disturbed one that he thought was sleeping. It was Turbo who pointed out that handling the little creatures was going to be the Achilles heel.. and they sucked blood out of you when you slept. The race was on to find an easier way to skin a Drifter, and .......

Yes, about 1/3. The other 2/3 comes from downward deflection of the wing. For the 1/3 to kick in the fllow over the top surface has to be laminar, hence it doesn't suck fabric off the ribs as we found out if we used dope on the fabric of model aircraft. With enough power to weight ratio you can fly an aircraft with just deflection. Most control line and RC aircraft are in this catergory. As someone mentioned, supersonic forces are very different requiring a different form of wing. A lot more complicated.

....surprisingly better takeoffs and climbs until the last fox couldn't keep his teeth shut and fell off. There was a general discussion in AUF and some people said ........

Surely they could handle the simple difference between avgas (Aviation Gasoline) and Petrol? These are people CASA calls Pilots in Command. In the US they can buy Avgas, Mogas and Gasoline in several levels. Mogas is a specific fuel for US vehicles. We don't import it or sell it. Each time we get the Australian fuel sorted out to optimise Australian aircraft someone seems to come along with a red herring.

....new best seller "Beyond the Fence; still keeping rabbits out" with a foreword by CT from Darraweit Guim and a full length photo of OT dressed in a Davey Crocket style rabbit suit. For the diehard AUFs there's a chapter on shooting rabbits from Drifters, a chapter on skinning a drifter with sewn and bonded rabbit skins - the right way and the wrong way. Ot touches on the very delicate .......

Yes I am sure; there was a major debate on this site and with the board members (committee) of RAA Inc. when members got to have these debates. There should be around 50 pages of the pros and cons on this site, but I just searched for "Magazine" and "Sport Pilot" and found nothing. Magazine or No Magazine The thing that binds any Association together is its group communication, gossip, hints, calls to action, notification of a success or failure requiring action. It needs to be an edited flow of information to avoid the catfights and cliques that occur in every big group. The RAA was one of the best, and promoted huge successes like Natfly, flyaways, group build meetings, etc. catering for all the issues ultralight flyers wanted to know. It announced news relating to changes of rules, interpretation of rules and it had a running report on accidents so it was possible to use these to produce spreadsheets of trends. Digitisation in the form of instant minute by minute news took over from Monthly or Weekly, or Daily news media. The scale of efficiency of mechanical printing presses, type setting, collating etc dropped down massively to the point where tens of thousands of people, starting with typesetters moved out of the industry and the cost to produce a professional magazine went up to unaffordable levels. I'd moved into digital with club and association magazines in the 1980s, and found it much more flexible because you could talk to members even on the morning of an event. RAA was no exception to this massive increase in cost to produce magazines the old way - in printing presses, so a debate was started about whether RAA should cut the printed magazines which had become a serious percentage of Member fees. I recommended digital magazines because the only significant cost was limited to Journalists and most clubs/associations used their own people. The magazine could be collated, then with one press of the send button sent out to thousands of members at almost zero cost. There was along debate on this site and within RAA groups around the Country and the group which wanted to stay with a printed magazine regardless of costs won the battle and RAA retained it and continued to charge members the significant cost for its production. Quality of content The Members of RAA voted to shut down RAA Inc and have a limited company operate recreational flying. I would argue that wasn't a democratic vote, and wasn't in the interests of a group who not only flew aircraft but builts them and needed flexible rules which were able to be changed regularly. However the majority vote was to have a central RAA Ltd company running everything. You're free to squeal about content, but you're in the same boat as people who aren't happy with the latest Land Cruiser, except that you can't go and buy somewhere else.

Could be, regularly happens.

Sport Pilot was/is an SAAA name. I'm stunned that they just gave it up.

That debate has already occurred within RAA and enough people said they wanted to retain it.

Families of Tasmanian jumping castle tragedy victims launch class action. Public Liability lawyers, Maurice Blackburn are suing the State as operators of the school and the company which set up the equipment. Eligible to join the class action will be children who suffered physical or psychological injury, witnesses, close family members of those killed or injured. There is more on this incident back at Page 14, Feb 2, 2024. Which mentioned: Alleged tethered at four out of its anchorage points. Alleged pegs not installed at the recommended 45 degrees. Alleged pegs recommended by the manufacturer or a suitable alternative were not used. Maurice Blackburn will not necessarily go down that path, but this case will be of interest to people who own/manage airports/strips, flying schools, aircraft for hire, aircraft maintenance, aircraft sales etc. I haven’t seen any announcement on when the case will be heard. WX00302.pdf

It's on the net, why wouldn't it be true.

....under the current (pre-Turbo) era was obliged to listen to him. "You know that bull character" he said " he flies overweight!" and stuck his thumbs in his belt to show how tough he was. Turbo wasn't about to distance himself from his lifelong mate bull, who'd always paid the bar bill after Cappy and Turbo and that snitch OT called in to Bone, and then skipped around the tiny distances of Tasmania. "You little...........

......he was resolved of and pardoned for any illegal actions he wanted to take. So far (unclassified) he has phoned up Boeing and told them to pull their fingers out or there'll be retrenchments in EVERY department (Turbo had picked up that mover and shaker from his American employers). Then he wrote to CASA and told them he was moving in on January 1 as CEO and would be booting all those who couldn't write a regulation in less than 15 words, and the rules were to be condensed to one page. One of the more clever CASA operatives suggested you'd only have to do that for idiots and Turbo carefully declined to comment, since he wasn't yet ready to pick the winners. Another CASA operative sidled up to him (it always happens when immiment firings are on the table); he was a miserable squirming little rat, but ............

.....and that was all she could remember; Turbo was a knock out. That night she told the story to the other Chefs. The dinners were running 30 minutes behind all night, and the RSL patrons started asking questions. The evening finished up with all the patrons sitting in the kitchen with free beers and saying "Tell us again Joy" Then Joy posted her story on Instagram and it went viral; Everyone wanted Joy Flights and for a time filled the Flying schools looking for Trial and Instructional Flights, but the rush fell off as they realised that none of the operators performed to expectations. Turbo was world famous, and this was the start of his business adventures. Once he was invited to Mar a Lago and a woman in the street pointed to the lawn area and asked "Who's that blonde guy over there?" Her friend replied "I don't know and then with that secret look that women get "but that's Turbo beside him." Cappy, who fancied himself as a charmer, was miffed although he hid it well and .....

Would one of you experts like to post the Bernoulli Theorem?

.....excitement. The next 30 seconds were a blur........

...but first read the OP.

....that the RSL Ladies were constantly pestering him for Joy flights in his brand new Sportair. It was a twin sitting there on the Bowen Aerodrome next to bull's Sportair. Not many people know that Joy flights were named after Joy, the night Chef at the RSL. Turbo had taken her up for a spin and the altimeter was showing 5,300' when Joy............ The problem was that Joy seemed to be interested in flying so Turbo had bought a VHF radio for her to listen to them while she cooked. The problem was she never turned it off and on this day the afternoon RSL patrons put down their beers to a loud SSSSHHHH coming from the kitchen and rushed over to hear what at first was the sweet sound of the Sportair, but was clearly overlaid with other noises.

......gait.........

Good summary. The success of a magazine is proportionate to its advertising income. RAA members have opted for charging members an additional subscription as well.

down? That one looks like it's flying. If it went onto do damage on Russia that's been happening for quite some time with a lot of success.

....meal if you are stuck out in the desert without food. Only problem is if go into the desert and get down to less than a weeks food, you're also dumb enough not to carry three types of firelighters to cook the camel. After you.ve eaten the camel there may be .......