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  1. ....winners along with the "Champagne on tap system to each seat". People have been heard lately saying, these are flights to die for, or ...................
  2. ....Gina Rhinehart. Turbo had become nostalgic. As a little boy he had been taken to the Mangalor Airshows where it wasn't unusual to see 50 Ultralights take off in the first 50 metres of the cross strip and fly down it at six feet and 15 wide, banking on to the main strip (leaving a couple in the paddock beyond). He was there that day when Pierre Airbus visited the Show. Not many people know that the conventional control yoke in RPT aircraft was a problem. Airline pilots with fat legs had to retire early because they couldn't achieve steep rates of bank. Pierre was excited to see these Australian Ultralights in action, and was offered a fly. Scott Winton, unaware that Pierre, a brilliant Design Engineer, had never actually flown an aircraft, gave him one of his new Jackaroo Side Stick Control aircraft. "Mon Dieu!" Pierre exclaimed on landing (and not because he had soloed on his first flight), "theese solve the probleem of fat legs, nes ce pas?" and from that time on Airbus aircraft have always had Side Stick Control. For this great invention he sent Scott a selection of French Cheeses and .............
  3. ......(and we are talking about the Bull now) was enjoying the beautiful flying characteristics of this ancient (going back to the days of Mangalore) machine. You may find yourself flying one wing down in a jackaroo, or skidding slighty as you flew your chosen heading, but that was nothing compared to its climbing ability, or perfect landings in any weather. Turbo had flown one up the Gibb River Road and was only limited by the fact that there were no service stations or .... Winton Jackaroo lined up on its runway. Source: Aeromedia/David C Eyre https://aeropedia.com.au/content/winton-jackaroo/
  4. ....alone, Bull was not alone, Bull was not alone. As anyone who has flown a jackaroo would know, they are b.............................
  5. ......started walking down the road. It was a young steer and still clearly remembered the last time it was rounded up and what happened there, so it was putting as much distance as it could from the scene in case they took something else this time. Waygu cattle are Japanese, so he was very polite as he walked along.in the town he greeted many people, gaining instant supporters. He came to a school crossing and obediently crossed with the children. "Ohayōgozaimasu, yoi kodomo-tachi, watashinonamaeha nobushidesu, gakkō ni kite mo īdesu ka?" he greeted them, and they all gave him their names and invited him into the school. Meanwhile the Police, Stock Inspectors from several districts and the local Dog Management Ute were combing the district to shoot or catch this dangerous steer/get him to the meatworks. The word had got around town and these people encountered severe hostility from the townspeople who knew he as safe in the school, and would be lucky if he wasn't being put to bed or tied to a tree and fed mud pies. It was all going well until the steer proke down and started crying; "they cit off my ..................
  6. It seems that Turbo has overpowered Cappy with his smooth flowing inviting prose, even though, as a fellow Badge of Honour to Cappy for oustanding gallantry and services to India, had not intended to intimidate the good Captain who clearly has writer's block. All the great authors have this problem; and Turbo will defend his dear fellow medalist against the many snide comments Turbo has heard. Perhaps a visit to the Wagga Wagga Abattoirs would help where there's a laugh a minute from boners trying to scare people by wearing a bull's [not our bull] head still dripping with blood, or crawling around in a sheep skin, or juggling boning knives - life is never dull in a meatworks.
  7. What would be the percentage between fatalities through loss of control in circuit turns vs collisions in the circuit area?
  8. "You could try" and "I couldn't guarantee it but it's a good idea" and "You might have something there!" and yelped as Turbo used the ER on him. Just up the road, with another load of Waygus Turbo was stopped by a Stock Inspector. The SI couldn't help but notice Turbo was holding something under his reefer jacket. "Is that a gun, you've got there?" he asked suspiciously. Turbo laughed and said "No, just an itch" They were just three km from the last tick gate and since this was within the 10 km limit, the SI was looking forward to a very detailed write-up. For those not familiar with livestock or tick gates, these are confined mainly to Queensland, where many property owners "forget" to register new calves for what the Qld Government thinks is a petty-cash $137.82. The Qld Government is smart, realising that all these calves eventually had to come down the roads to the Abbatoirs, so they installed Tick Gates. These are not gates across the road, because that would required SI's to open them for every car, motor home or semi; they are just pretend gates with a crapper nearby for the SI to make a cup of tea. When the SI held up his hand to a stock vehicle, the driver was obligated to stop and the SI tick off the registered livestock and give you a right royal ticking off if you didn't have tags on them. So the name "Tick Gate" just stuck. Mostly SIs spend their time at the local pub telling stories, so people get used to driving through at 100 km/hr or 130 km/hr for semi drivers who were never sure whether they should stop or had a free pass. As the two people faced off, the SI pressed his collar button which sent an alarm to the local Highway Patrol. Now Turbo and the various State and Territory Highway Patrols have a long history, and the Highway Patrol Kia made its way to the scene quickly. Turbo had read the excited body language of the Stock Inspector so he waited for the HP players to arrive with the intention of reaming all three with his new Expanding Reamer. However, just as the Highway Patrol arrived a steer broke out of the trailer and .........
  9. .....ensure the safety of people [Avref] or cattle {Beast ref]. In the early days of the CatFarm Chain, Turbo had used the Chucking Spline on wayward cats, but there was virtually nothing left of the cat after an application so the decision was made to use 12 gauge shotguns on the basis of similar result, less walking. Interestingly the Expanding Reamer was used by .................
  10. ATSB are likely to detail the tracks and altitudes aircraft. One lesson if you are travelling cross country and/or need to flight plan a turn onto a new heading is not to use airfields to make the turn. Same goes with overflying. I know it feels reassuring if you can look down and see aircraft, but that’s where flying aircraft congregate and if you are not there you can’t get hit. The Flightaware track of the Jabiru is also illuminating by comparison with what’s in the VFRG.
  11. ......Take a walk to see the countryside. What the SI didn’t know was that OT was moonlighting in cattle transportation using the 15 road trains he’d had to buy to move all his CAT parts out of Perth. The trailers weren’t stock trailers but The resourceful OT ran. Electric fence cord around the outside of the trailer posts which kept the losses down to eight per per convoy, but there was nowhere for the dogs to sit so they had to get in with the cattle. OT had been scouting ahead in the Lexus looking for a good parking spot when the Stock Inpector made the advances. He......
  12. ........has been used only yesterday as an example, by King Charles in Samoa, of how a small Company facing an overwhelming problem, could break through to success with the help of his friend Captain Cook. Turbo warns Australian Industry in general to be very careful with this nefarious liaison when dealing with a certain rodent, especially in ............. Turbo's Two horsepower Kenworth Hot Rod with bunk tryptic. It's interesting to note the NES readership and participation with this random story about Turbo which produced 21,833 replies (unfortunately 21,832 were unprintable.) compared to the next item where only two people replied. Such is the power of Cappy's inspiring wit.
  13. .....Burritos and there was some head butting which put Turbo on the back foot but just as the Billy charged with his head down, Turbo whipped out his Kukri and with one stroke parted the Billy with his two most prized possessions. There was a moment's silence, then the Billy who was now a billy................................... Turbo never ceases to be amazed at Cappy's superior intellect and his interest in things like the arts. When he gets interested he studies astutely as in the case when he built his one Jabiru. Some would say that it was the best Jabiru ever built. Others wouldn't but we don't have to get into that here. His advice on thru bolts though was empirical, and ................... Turbo had never heard the word "tryptic" used in the art world before; his own experience in training at the National Gallery, never included and sessions where tryptics were required although Turbo was once sharply told by the Lecturer "We don't need cartoonists here". In trying to find a clue, Turbo's eye fell on the publisher of the above piece of art - the National Geographical Society, and notes that today with the weakening of our society it would be banned by Facebook, based to FB's outraged message to Turbo once, who'd just posted a photo of an Aboriginal tribe taken in the 1870's which not only was removed, but FB gave Turbo a lecture in the perils of nudity.
  14. ......not as easy to manipulate as they used to be. In the past you could round up a truckload of wild goats and sell them in the stockyards as a job lot of prime lambs, and no one would say anything. Who did it hurt? the consumers who bought the meat couldn't tell sheep from turkey anyway, but the SIs would sit in their cars - always Hilux 4x4 dual cab utes in that ugly dark blue colour looking through the long range scopes they used to use as FoIs, and before you could get the cash transferred they'd be knocking on ........................................
  15. ...the victimisation of Stock Inspectors, particularly at .................................
  16. The fact that his cat has four legs, so it doesn't make an ideal hobble. This reminds Turbo of the time, several years after his hands on phase, when he bought four sheep at the local market. The tradition on the farm when transporting less that five sheep was to bind three legs together with baling twine; of course sheep find it difficult to hop up and run away on one leg, just as we do. People on the land know there's always a knack in every single job and if you know it you can work safely all day long but if you don't you'll look a goose sooner or later and on this occasion, Turbo had forgotten the knack in tying the twine when he'd put the sheep in a low-sided trailer, and looked in the mirror on a particularly busy section of street to see three sheep standing up enjoying the view. VERY carefully, he turned a corner and eased the vehicle to a stop. It was not going to be easy to grab all three at once, but he noticed a helpful Samaritan in a blue boiler suit pull up behind him. It was the local stock Inspector; these are usually recruited from semi-retired CASA FOIs, so he knew he was in for a grilling, but he also knew that practice dictated that he had to catch the third sheep. This was quickly done and with Turbo holding two and the SI holding the big ram and his notebook (there is often loss of face if a sheep gets away from an SI, and they're inclined to forget the offences to get out of the ribbing when they get back to the stockyards.) There was a short discussion on what to do because he was a Millennial and tying sheep was unheard of. The trailer certainly wouldn't hold them and the SI could see that Turbo was about to let his go on the streets and worry about transport if he found them, leaving him the lone offender. The SI became placatory as they tried to work out what to do in this Mexican standoff. He suggested about the only thing Turbo could do was put them in the back of his Company 4WD Wagon. Turbo who was on very shaky ground quickly eased his two into the near new car, then put the seats down and helped the SI lift the big ram in. They parted with a meaningful look; no one was going to talk about this, but of course..................................................
  17. .....the shy and reclusive Turbo does his best to cope with these disabilities, and pushes forward to conquer the many obstacles in life, such as when a solid state hard drive saves your work one night then doesn't wake up the next morning. Or ......
  18. Turbo tried to shut down this unhelpful dialogue by ignoring OT, then Cappy has to go and spread his photo, taken at the Melbourne Art Centre before an unveiling. Turbo had worked on this design for years, arguing with the surgeons until he got the design right. those legs need to be that way to swing behind your ears. OT has also been to the same surgeon on recent months but had to go back for another try because he had too many black parts and that's not good in WA; he's had them replaced with gold to suit his................
  19. .......question when he asked; “Can you do Japan to Cowla one hour?” The other members looked at each other; it was Turbine Investments Inc which had put a limit on speed. Like Henry Ford who had to build the Mustang, a rich man’s Falcon to cover overheads and.....
  20. ........lobbing munitions exactly where they are needed. Pol Pot von Braun had a Jewish mother and when war broke out Werner vB cleverly sent them to Cowra Australia. Here PP as his mother called him, went through Cowra High School under a young Mark Oliphant. A young Japanese engineer who’d worked with the USAF and was on the team sent to examine the crashed spacecraft from Roswell found these things he called “Transistors” and he, Mark and PP designed a rocket which could hit.....
  21. You’re probably listening to someone who flies out of a city airport (8 to 12 in the circuit) and sticks to the formal phrases. There aren’t all that many phrases, so these people can usually pick up a transmission by the syllables if the radio is on the way out. This is why inventing your own phrases and locations are not a good idea if you ever come to the bigger airport. Yes they can and should slow down when they get out to quiet country circuits.
  22. ....jittery; he knew the Americans weren't into Final Solutions and even one life could get you into trouble, and he'd been telling people his parents were Cambodian, hence the accent. He would have to be careful setting up the track, and as he tapped it out on his IBM Golf Ball, he hesitated; was it 245+sqroot*40 or 2 squroot 40*45.............................
  23. .......shift London 50 km to the west and Dr WVB missed again. In typical US fashion they gave him the job of hitting..........
  24. ...the Ku Klux Clan German Chapter when he moved to Florida. He said it was for the sun, but as Mar-a Lago Avenue started filing with Shultz, Von Einem, Bleck, and Schatsenbaken families and Schitzels and Pretzels were added to the local pub's menu of gumbo, he began to wonder if he would be noticed, so volunteered his rocket skills to the US Government. NASA didn't say anything but remember that time when one of the rockets went round and round the earth three times before they could get it down, and the Mars rocket that shot past Mars and was last heard heading for ..................
  25. ......Vern was going through one of his Blue periods. As we know the V1 wasn't exactly a roaring success, most of them shooting straight over the top of England and landing out in the Artic Sea. Dolph cracked a joke and said Vern would be better off making pendants and the rest is history,
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