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  1. Birdseye
    Almost forgot, "Happy Birthday Phil!"
  2. Birdseye
    Prefer formal myself and shaken, not stirred.
  3. Birdseye
    Ah yes, the sweet waft of chunder was always present in AEF Chipmunks
  4. Birdseye
    That event pre-dated the term "mooning" by a number of decades. Anyway it would have been precluded by the uncontrolled hysterics from myself and my mother as we spotted it at the same moment.
  5. Birdseye
    Real signwriting seen on a van in Welshpool, Wales many moons ago: "John Thomas - Plumber"
  6. Birdseye
    Just as I have already said, attaining V1 does not guarantee that a takeoff will be successful and the aircraft will climb away safely. It is merely a go/no go speed.
  7. Birdseye
    Not correct, exceeding V1 just means that you probably cannot abort and stop in the available runway. You still have to achieve flying speed and minimum control speed (if asymmetric) to safely continue in flight.
  8. Birdseye
    Not seems, but a fact. Used to advantage in some secenarios, but fatal in others. One example of the negative scenarios is that in many road accidents a person hits the tree rather than avoids it, simply because they are looking at it.
  9. Birdseye
    I'd suggest that it was the final impact following a catastrophic bounce, but time will tell. Some media idiots have posted "black box" recordings which are actually short exchanges with ATC, but if real they show that the crosswind had dropped off significantly.
  10. Birdseye
    Not so according to the Flightradar24 trace. Carries out first approach, goes around and does the little wander off to the NE where the two orbits are carried out. Heads S again and enters the holding pattern for quite a while, then carries out the second and final approach.
  11. Birdseye
    A Google search gets more details on the 1949 lancastrian crash than on this one.
  12. Birdseye
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-10/police-respond-reports-light-plane-crash-in-obley-dubbo/7237206
  13. Birdseye
    We're not looking for a RR Bex, just that cheap Bex aeromotor :-)
  14. Birdseye
    Pure relief in being able to squeeze in and sit down you mean?
  15. Birdseye
    The worst part of the experience comes when you get to the end of the pier (assuming the aircraft is actually there in time).
  16. Birdseye
    Helps to keep things on the boil while we wait for the meat. Any meat to add to the rumour yet?
  17. Birdseye
    The three employees I have had dealings with in the past two weeks wouldn't warrant much of a salary, they can't even read a simple application form correctly.
  18. Birdseye
    That term Nev is reserved for the place on top of the hill.
  19. Birdseye
    Move it out of Canberra and there would be hundreds of competent people available to fill the jobs.
  20. Birdseye
    Watching this closely, wouldn't have thought there was enough collective competence to misconduct themselves.
  21. Birdseye
    I'm assuming that your post is actually a rhetorical question. Pell has more excuses than CASA and they also share this ability to be polite whilst ignoring their incompetence.
  22. Birdseye
    Even George Pell can't pick the bad ones (apparently), so what chance a police check?
  23. Birdseye
    Hopefully the 'Leg-End' has a longer novelty life :-)
  24. Birdseye
    It would be interesting to see some research on the life span of an action cam i.e. from purchase to languishing in the back of somebody's drawer. I reckon its shorter than many might think.
  25. Birdseye
    A Cherokee has a 30' span and a rough measure shows this is about 38', presumably due to it being closer to the camera but projected onto ground level.
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