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  1. Talk to a Public Liability lawyer to see what separations, if any, there might be between the company and you in the scenarios you raise.
  2. ".........the currants in these buns over here." All talk in the room ceased, you could have .............
  3. ........concern to the group because Turbinia had a phobia about blowflies. If she saw one she would spray several cans all over Turbo and Cappy and the usual guests, then call up the crop sprayer and have him spray the district, so there was a bitter taste when eating steaks, drinking wines, brushing teeth and so on for weeks. If anyone complained they'd get a spray in the face. There was a new publican in town and .......
  4. ...adapt from his somewhat lewd stories about the Bone Mile High Club, to the close knit brother/sister families of Tasmania where the most obvious spectacular story lines are never mentioned, to the Club type Kappoka language, and bull's first story was about another story told by Cappy about the time on the Khyber Pass when another British soldier told the story which started with Corporal Turbo cleaning his shoes .......
  5. I just knew you had to be a bureaucrat Skippy. Problem is they are not going to tell you what they do or how they do it. As and example an official rocked up to work one day and asked if I could identify a white truck from a witness description. A crie had been committed and they would normally know which truck they were after but a crucial piece of infrastructure was out of order that day. I mentioned that was looking for a "White Male" but that didn't get me anywhere. As I asked question after question it was clear he wasn't going to give up. I asked to talk to the witness and he told me the witness would likely be killed if that happened. Around the fourth hour I'd whittled it down from 560,000 to about 40,000 and asked him if he was prepared tp have people speak to each person. He said Yes, it was that important. After another couple of hours we got it down to ten and a person to talk to. A couple of weeks later he made the newsmedia standing in front of the truck in a major multi-State arrest. No one in the area had any idea any of this was happening.
  6. Enough amazing stories here to write a book. If you want to find out exact details, contact Department of Home Affairs, Cyber & Infrastructure Security Centre.
  7. ....terms like Voiler or Mae West or Gendame. The Kappoka room had a certain smell to it, so the postings were usually brief but one caught the Journalist's eye. Normally the highlight of his day was when Cappy came in and started his post with "When I was a Colonel in His Majesty's India Lancers" and wrote a hilarious story, but he never followed the script. The "script" was a subject chalked up on the blackboard every day by the Journalist and everyone was supposed to stick to the subject so when all the posts went into the newspaper there was some continuity. Cappy would test him every day, on one occasion writing 1500 words which had nothing to with the subject and then the last word capturing the subject exactly. The particular post was from bull, a stranger to Kappoka.............
  8. The Asic card does that. If someone is noticed wandering around a light airctraft doing a preflight or putting packages into it, the Asic card immediately identifies the person has been checked out by Federal police rather than having to detain the person for hours getting checks made. There are current threats, why would we do a Neville Chamberlain? That's your asessment, but how about this: "..... also known as ......returned from .......late last month and is again extolling the virtues of jihad at the ......... Islamic Information Centre in ................ The location is an innocemt looking suburb in Melbourne with dozens of restaurants, mostly Chinese, Laotian amd Vietnamese. or And when they are caught by Fed police: ".........who is serving 15 years jail for planning a terrorist attack in Melbourne." Or the graduate of the learning centre who lured Vic Police to a site and opened fire on them, luckily being shot dead by Police. There's been a steady stream of potential terrorists around Australia for decades. They've done that overseas, using shoulder-fire missiles, but they can do that from outside the perimeter of the airport. The ASIC process does protect us in lone wolf attacks. Overseas , where ones and twos of terrorist showed up at training airfields and asked for training and no questions were asked even when they said they didn't need to do landings. They were given training no questions asked, they learned how the aircraft could be accessed (the no keys, she's OK, Let's Go! method) they loaded their aircraft and they attacked their targets. . In those cases the instructors either echoed the sentiments we're reading,where people don't think a terrorist would ever come to their airport, or that arabic people saying they didn't need to be taught to land were just a bit of fun or whatever lame excuse they came up with. If it was Australia, with an ASIC airfield and there was a security protocol being followed by everyone on the field, those terrorists would not have passed the ASIC screening so not allowed to be trained, so the attacks wouldn't have occurred. Yes, it might not tickle your fancy, but Australia is a commonwealth of six sovereign states and two territories, so there are issues to be discussed and arrangements to be made when joint action is needed. I've just answered your series of scenarios, but in reality the threats and reactions might be quite different, but the ASIC card cost is less than an hour's flying for most people.
  9. The achilles heel in your story Skippy is that the terrorists involved in the light aircraft attacks went out to small fields, did some basic training then launched their attacks. After that, some Authority,maybe CASA made a requirement for all light aircraft to have secure door locks. I can remember flying for a while with a hole in the door, hole in the fuselage and unlocking a big padlock. The current discovery in Victoria which the Premier and Albo are working on is a timely reminder not to get careless. These people are driven enough to think up new ways, partticularly when people roll out the "easy" signs on social media.
  10. ......and then "What's a carrier?. what's a browser?, what's a computer?" bull had stepped into a time warp, and although the face staring at him looked familiar he couldn't remember who it was. He vaguely ........
  11. .......famous Australia-wide, but not in the name we've come to know and love; he went by the name of LLub from Latvia, and no one ever guessed it was old bull. Cappy of course pretended he was bull's thumb and the fan mail from the chicks kept him skinny for years until one day one of them, a veteran of the early B&S culture at Balranald who carted 20,000 bales of hay every summer tracked the newspaper down and showed up at the Kapooka Writing Room just as ........
  12. ...into town to the Bone Writing Room to play. In those legacy days at the get go of the final days of the last century, Writing Rooms had been invented and spread from town to town. A journalist was appointed by the town newsapaper and he (the women were home cooking dinner) was there to help those who had never been to school (a fair percentage of the Writing Room in some States). The writers would make their statements using their free pens, and "post" the statements in a slot under the journalist's desk. You could use your pen's name or even post as Anonymous. Some people would post in as many as 16 different names and have them picking on someone in the town , the government, each other or the local cop. At closing time the journalist would collect all the "posts" and publish them the next week. bull "posted" in the name of Brutus, with the tag line "Brutus adsum iam forte; Caesar adsum tu". The Journalist in the town got to know who was writing the "posts" because as the writers got up to ask for help he'd see the "poster" name and quickly got to remember the writing, so when someone wrote "Journalists are XXXXX" thinking they were safe, he would write his own story for the paper .........
  13. ........rare rift between Cappy and Turbo. Most millenials would be unaware of this , but before '85 (so "last Century) there was no Internet and there were no PCs in the general population. We all carried Pens in our front shirt pocket and were judged by a hierarcy of pen lables. Cappy, with his British background was a Parker man, and you had to pay 8 pounds for one, so only the rich, or in Cappy's case "Nouveau Riche" could afford them. Top of the brands for ink was Quink which was equally expensive. The Quink ink manufacturing company was owned by Solomon Turbine, who had searched the world for the most beautiful blue dye he could find. This was important in two ways; firstly to have an attractive appearance on the expensive parchment used to write letters and secondly when the non-Parker fountain pens leaked in your front pocket just as you entered a room for a meeting, the stain was acceptable. Cappy was snakey at having to buy ink from Solomon so he.........
  14. If you care to go back you'll see what we recommended for the OP and the op said it didn't work. Under those circumstances, Meguiars wouldn't be able to do any better. So some of us went looking for further solutions and if you look up a few posts you'll see that Skippy asked a very reasonable question and I gave him the best answer I could. What would you have preferred I do to Skippy? tell him to belt up?
  15. If you care to follow the thread you'll find I was answering a question from Skippy.
  16. ......prompted Turbo to come to her aid by saying he didn't really have all that money, he only had a few billion, and Gina smiled again but no one was to know how devious she was although Cappy had an inkling........
  17. Yes laminate in high quality resin will retain its memory (springyness) longer. If you press your thumb against the side of a new Jab, you can do a basic gauge comparison with a similar thickness curved laminate of poor quality resin and your thumb will go in deeper and the material will tank longer to rebound. With a gelcoat/polyester/chopped strand mat fibrelass laminate (very roughly here) Stage 1 Dull surface of gelcoat (gelcoat problem - polish or cut and polish) Stage 2 Dull Plus surface powder (as 1 but can be deteriorating in the laminate also) Stage 3 Tiny cracks, crazing (through the gelcoat ad water getting into the laminate - structural damage starting) Stage 4 Bigger cracks, big long lines of crazing. When the laminate bulges these cracks open and let the weather in. At the very least the gelcoat needs sanding off and replaced). Stage 5 Chunks of gelcoat dropping off between the Stage 4 cracks and crazes, more rapid deterioration of the resin and a lot more softening. Stage 6 Areas of resin crazing into small squares and dropping out of the fibreglass fibres. Inspecting for Stages 3,4 you would be doing a lot of thumb pushing. This is where you can't generalise; you have to go back to the individual manufacturer. They might all be using fibreglass but the engineering, specifications etc will all be different. When the weather has got into the laminate, a monocoque structure is virtually at the point where you have to throw it away. Even with a space frame for structural strength deteriorated panels will be torn off their mountings or collapse in wind pressure, so space frame aircraft can be just as dangerous. Bottom line is you have to replace deteriorated panels before they become a safety hazard, so you will be needing expert advice from the manufacturer.
  18. ......Gina and OT for years and they could often be seen smooching in the Kling Long Nightclub in Hong Kong after flying there in separate airlines. It did look a bit odd because OT is so skinny, but they were happy enough and the partnership prospered until......... A truckie friend of Turbo was caught out there one night after sneaking in for quick perv at the strippers while dining. One of them walked up to his table and pulled him up to dance. He thought "What the heck, no one will know me here and was acting silly when from the sidelines there was a bellow 'GO KNIGHTY'
  19. The resin is the critical component and this paper by Sindhu & Joseph gives some data on the subject. There are many resins available and many standards on sale. Whether Oxidation, UV, chemical splashed etc, some products crack or colapse to a powder and the laminate is just a heap of glass fibres and powder. You can see that a lot in cheap boats which have been made with cheap resin and thin laminates. At the other end of the scale are products like these Atkinson FRP Truck Cabs and FRP Refrigerated Vans. There are still plenty in operation after 55 - 59 years. The FRP Refrigerated rigid trucks have had several refrigeration unit replacements and some are on their 7th truck cab/chassis.
  20. There is video of the Tower asking the Helicopter PIC if he could see the approaching aircraft.
  21. ........Lang Hancock and Robert Bunning. We all know that Lang flew a Cessna and was always getting lost and one day he was flying up an unfamiliar valley and found Gina's fortune. Not many people know that Robert Bunning was also an entrepreneur as a timer miller and builder of most of Perth's early homes, shops and factories. Lang used to say "Bob, get out of those XXXXXXX overalls; you have to have a XXXXXXX vision like me, that's how you make XXXXXXX money." Robert would defend himself and say, "If I could buy hammers, saws, nails from 1/2" to 6" and baths in WA instead of waiting for the Camel trains to walk in from the east I'd make money too! "Ever heard of Turbine Bros Marketing Consultants Inc.?" asked Lang mildly and six weeks later Arthur Turbine, whose pub nickname was "Turbo" walked in, and the rest is history, and btw that's why in the nails section whether you are looking in the 2" nail bin or the 5" nail bin, you'll always find nails from 1/2" to 6", and why..........
  22. how does this thing work do i have to say my name?I notgood with these things. Gislaine is detained just now but ther's plenty more where that came from for you Cappy turbie I;
  23. ......electronic cures which could be bought on subscription. We shouldn't tell you this, but NES readers never bleat secrets out; you have to be very careful when talking around OT. Outwardly he projects himself as a Gentleman but he listens then he strikes, and he'd heard us discussing Bill and Jeffrey in the early morning NES meeting a few weeks ago. Next thing we see these ads coming up on facebook from "Dr Spick", offering cures online for everything from ingrown toenails to a full blown health cure to pass Class 2 Medicals. Just how this could be done electronically wasn't said but there were hints of delivery by drone anywhere in the world, and of course a money-back guarantee if .........
  24. Still no photo; hmmmm
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