Bruce Tuncks

A similar thing has happened with gliders, and I blame the CONSUMERS. When I was young and silly, Harry Schnieder used to import 15m gliders by the container-load. They would sell for maybe $15,000 Now it is one or 2 a year, self-launching super-ships, at about $300,000 . What changed? the tastes of the buyers! No longer is it acceptable to"land out" as it used to be.

yep, i dunno how they were done up to begin with. I reckon that the pliers won't fit any better than the spanner does.

Hi, I am fixing my j230 from a taxying accident and I would like some tips on holding nyloc nuts from spinning when you try to undo the bolt. My best guess is that gripping the nut with gripping "pliers" is the best you can do, but I would like a better idea. cheers, Bruce

Why not in the arid zone of Australia nev? It seems to me that groundwater is almost non-existent there and the stuff you would place there is less long-term radioactive that what has been dug out at roxby.

I reckon 2 tonne has a legitimate grievance. They ( CASA) behaved disgracefully and it is not right that he should have to spend his own money like this. Alas, who is there to complain to? My only suggestion is RAAus, and they are compromised by the need to keep acting like the capos did with the SS.

Yep, the old SK has been sold and I now have a newer 230 in the hangar here at Edenhope. However the old SK has not been collected yet and it is still in the hangar, minus it's wings to take up less room. Right now, I am busy fixing things on the old sk anyway. Just yesterday, I noticed that the nose-wheel was flat... I dunno how this happened with it just sitting in the hangar! So now I have ordered a new tube. The other jobs are re-instating the tail-fin, following an enlarging experiment, and fixing the cht/egt setup that just stopped working too... The new owner of 19-3497 is Rowan Hill, and he lives in Qld. I hope he comes down and flies the pants off the old Jabiru, before taking it back home to Qld.

About 20 years ago, I was asking a bunch of truck-drivers at Kulgera just when they thought the road to Uluru would open. ( flooding was around). I remarked that they didn't look like truck drivers to me, there was not a blue singlet with overhanging belly in sight. They said that " all those guys failed their medical". So I am surprised at the story about the morbidly obese guy, but it does align with the truck driver who killed my mate and his wife recently. The trucky was on the wrong side of the road and on his phone when he killed those in the little white Alpha going the other way. I reckon he would have failed any reasonable check-test on account of being too stupid to drive such a lethal machine, and so I ask again that such drivers be kept off the road.

IF you are comparing a Jabiru with a carbon non-strut wing then of course the carbon wing will be faster, but it will also cost about twice as much. And as has been correctly pointed out, be far less repairable. Jabiru went for the cheapest options and so they sold a lot. Personally, I reckon we were lucky to have an Australian manufacturer. I bet Rotax are rubbing their hands together and working out how much they can hike their price when they get closer to a monopoly.

2 things... firstly , is an old life worth less than a young one? I reckon it sure is worth less, but since we have the same old brain, we don't think this. ( I always thought that active 70 y/olds should get jobs as hit-men, on account of how they can't be punished so much. Alas, I changed my mind when I got to be 70... Secondly, if there have been a lot of people on a ute without seatbelts, and they all died on a rollover, in my experience they are ( were) aborigines. I bet this statistic is not published though, who wants to be called a racist?

I've been looking at maps and reckon the legs could be: 1. Edenhope to Deniliquin ( 369km by air ) 2. Deniliquin to Narromine (475km) I would plan to overnight at Narromine Next day, 3. Narromine to Moree( 403km) 4. Moree to Caboolture ( 406km) 5. Caboolture to ??? ( less than 100km) I would like to be able to refuel at Deniliquin and also Moree.( I already know about Narromine and Caboolture). Both Deniliquin and Moree are there because they are sort of in the right places. I have zero knowledge of either, so I would appreciate any comments/suggestions that you guys out there must know.

Edenhope to Noosa? I am thinking that edenhope-horsham-tocumwal-narromine-?? would work. My sister lives in the Noosa hinterland and I have no idea where to land there. But I have promised to try.

Is there information available about the performance of existing board members? For example, their voting pattern, any comments/speeches that would be relevant? Their attendance record?

There was a type of compass called a bohli, which was banned in nationals gliding competitions. Apparently a good pilot could thermal up in the clouds if he used one properly.

Here's an amazing thing... it can cost you more to shear the sheep than you get for the wool.