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    ASIC if we just leave the description as your Flying Car, and put the charging cord in the boot. There was a rush of orders from the LeckLiks of the Papua New Guinea mountains who'd been waiting for years for this opportunity to overcome the tyranny of distance and.......
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    That's pretty accurate!
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    .....Turbo quietly changed the Corvette registration to EV then signed up and put EV stickers on the cars. No one noticed the difference and.....
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    There will always be big numbers if every class of aircraft is posted, but sometimes the description is so vague that it might be RA and it might not.
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    .... and then Cappy realised he'd made a mistake. He was always a dangerous back up on tour and this time he'd brought the wrong film. It showed Cappy competing in the Longreach Bull Riding Championship. NES readers might be wondering how Cappy could possibly be fit enough to ride a bull, but with a sash around his gut and a sport bra, he does quite well. The audience hadn't come for bull riding though, but "Shifty" Cappy asked the audience to imagine the bull was their better half and use their imaginations. Flying Car sales went through the roof!. Very few cars avtually left their charging stations, but that didn't matter, it was all in ...........
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    ...tour with the "Flying Car with bench seat - 8 shows a day. Cappy has mentioned some of the features, these became necessary when in the trial shows and rehearsals, Millenials just stared blankly when the CO2 clouds parted to show the BIG BENCH seats. "What would you use them for?" asked one, and that's when Cappy ............
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    International Scout with the bench seats.
  8. turboplanner
    ........the layback bench seat. Cappy and Turbo had cut their teeth, so to speak, on this handy accessory. Cadillac had even made them electrically operated ("for your convenience"] and none of them were used for camping trips. International Harvestor was owned by the Mormons, and provided a Bible with every new truck, and at some truck stops Inter drivers could be seen holding hands in prayer, so it wasn't long before their Scout 4WD Station Wagon came under fire as a den of Iniquity. No one would say what this Iniquity was, but soon the seats only folded back 2 degrees and in the rear the seats were split with a console and Cigar lighter. The Ford guys were all expected to go to church every Sunday in their blue suits and red ties (which were showing the effects of a week's wear) for the TEAM, and the GM guys in their grey suits and blue ties, to ensure they weren't fired for some misdemeanour. The Chrysler guys showed up in their jeans and hugh heeled boots and open neck shirts. There were less of them, Soon the whole industry had dumped the bench seat after getting beaten up by their wives. Turbo wanted today's youth to enjoy the same excitement s he had, but ........
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    .........(addressing the very large press contingent at the release; "we live in an electric world; we have the electric blanket, the electric razor to shave every morning, the electric toothbrush, the electric toaster, the electric jug, the electric light to read the morning paper, the electric train to get to work, an electric computer and electric printer, and now the electric flying car. One wag from the BBC (and there aren't too many there) said "But they all have power cords to get the electricity from the grid.!" Turbo, being from the Country didn't know what the grid was, but boldly said "We'll be taking our own grids with us, and ...........
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    .........shiver and consider investing in.........
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    Morwell.
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    The word hobby in that story was a positioning word; if you read it the intent was to show that Recreational Aircraft operations were unsafe. If you fly a Recreational Aircraft it would be very much in your interest not to have your freedoms curtailed based on false information or your training and flying made more expensive based on people's perception that there were 27 deaths in 12 months in these aircraft, whereas if there are any issues with deaths they are NOT in RA. As you know I do push for zero fatalities, but I'm aware that we all stuff up, so there will be an annual figure, but if that figure is falsified for some reason that's another story. I don't hear RA people referring to their aircraft, built to strict standards of design as "hobby planes" and while you could once refer to RC and Control Line aircraft as hobby planes, I doubt whether they would let you get away with it today. When you read back over the threads, if advisors and politicians have been part of the 9,000 viewers of the story, some of them will be kicking the "probem" upstairs.
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    .......the XT582 Microlight can fly by itself. When the designers were developing this aircraft, research showed there was a gap in the market; scottish flyers weren't buying Trikes. Further investation revealed that Scottish buyers had to sell their trikes when they found out they went blind while flying them. This was not due to what Cappy might be thinking, but with one hand on the throttle and one hand on the bar, their kilts would fly up and cover their faces. The designers got some Sceet, some light cable, some pulleys and a small lead weight and produced a cheap and effective autopilot, so our Scottish friends could have one hand on the throttle and one on the kilt. Vision was restored. By cutting the Sceet and making it tapered, the tumbling habit of trikes could be eliminated because the lead weight couldn't climb the taper. Scottish sales exploded as reported by Alistair McQuorkindale (who goes by the name of Mate.) Another .........
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    It's also got nothing to do with Recreational Aviation at a time when RA is under threat.
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    Any reason for the panic?
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    I'll PM you; I've done some research and a few things have started to explain themselves.
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    In this case the ABC simply reported what people told them.
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    9,000 views after 3 days. Note the comments Aviation experts are concerned about the future of the hobby aircraft sector after a string of fatal crashes in 2024. Of this string of fatal crashes just 6 of the 27 fatalities were in Recreational Aviation. This shows how fast things can get out of control; the players in this have a small window of opportunity to correct this.
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    ......flying an XT582 Tundra Microlight 250 km west of Longreach when he was caught by a Willy Willy and thrown about so violently that all but his left leg was outside the aircraft and he had to hang on by his toes. It's a long title but the story is short and .........
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    .....headed for the stage. The subject of his oratory submission was ..........
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    Not so smart in Australia; As I mentioned, our laws are different and there are consequences to flying without a licence and or medical. Not only any prescriptive penalties but paying for the consequences of accidents that hurt or kill people.
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    That's the normal way of checking there's been no deterioration. At 77 wouldn't costs be covered for that?
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    ?
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    If you are talking to me, I wasn't about to write a thesis just for a few cheats. Yes, if you make a truthful declaration there are pathways back. It was the BS declarations where someone has been sick for some time but won't give up his daily trip down to the RSL etc, or knows he has pains but won't go to a specialist and keeps on flying until one day it's all over.
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    You're looking at it back to front. Of course there is a tiny risk, of course people still die immediately after checks and always did. However the diagnostics pick up many in the community with major problems and take those people of the roads and out of the air. The self reported system is problematic with a few too may cases of a crash on the road or from the air and everyone saying "Nooooooooo" we never even knew he had a bad heart." You will have seen the reassurances of "virtually no pilots hjave died from heart attacks in the air". Digital, which records every vaccination you've ever had, every test, every medication you've been put on, will tell you with just a couple of clicks on the phone when you last had a tetanus injection. Authorities can see blood thinners etc too.
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