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The propellant in rocket chutes should contain Guanidinium nitrate, which is the same propellant as used in airbags in cars. I've never seen a recommendation to change out airbags in cars, they're supposed to still work after 30 years or more. There are still many questions around old airbags in use, because older airbags used sodium azide, which is as toxic as cyanide. Takata stopped using sodium azide in airbags due to toxicity concerns, and started using ammonium nitrate, which was deemed safer. But the problem that occurred with the ammonium nitrate in the defective Takata airbags, was that if it got wet (and it was supposed to be sealed, but sometimes the sealing failed), then the AN developed little tunnels through it, known as "Ostwald ripening". High temperatures made the problem worse, and effectively caused the AN to detonate when initiated, rather than burn (there's a fine line between the two, as you all know with fuel detonation). As a result, all airbag and ballistic chute manufacturers now use Guanidinium nitrate, which is a long-standing and safer propellant. This doesn't mean this product can be mishandled, it is still a toxic compound and needs to be handled accordingly, especially when disposing of product which has reached the end of its lifespan. All propellant in airbags and ballistic chutes should be detonated on disposal, to change the chemicals into less harmful compounds.

"Hey Jethro, I jest shotgunned outta the sky, the biggest darn skeeter ah ever did see!!! .... and the noise of its buzzin', you could hear a-coming for miles!!! ...."

.........Asian food delights from the Lucky Cat restaurant. Now, not many people know that Turbo started a fine Asian restaurant, as a sideline to the Turbine Cat Farming operation. This restaurant conveniently utilised cats from the Cat Farm that didn't make the grade for pelts - thus showing that Turbo's business skills at waste minimisation and maximising ROI, were right up there with the countrys biggest and best CEO's. The restaurant name was a clever joke that no-one ever twigged to, of course, and even fewer knew the source of the meat in the Kway Teow and the Sweet and Sour Pork, but regardless......... (and here, dear NES readers, is OT's photo of Turbo's prominent restaurant advertising - however, he did give the place a miss, knowing it was owned by Turbo, so he can't report on these particular food delights, as regards taste......)

It's a shame the Larkin Aircraft Co. folded because of the Great Depression. I have an early 1930's copy of the Australian Wings aviation magazine, and it features a lot of information about the Lascondor and the Larkin Aircraft Co. Aviation was going great guns here in Australia in the late 1920's, but the Great Depression wiped out a lot of aviation efforts.

.......Santoku knife sets, which need to be treated with more care than a live Taipan, the Kimono with obi (which must be tied using the tateya musubi knot), and of course, Zori, otherwise known as Japanese work boots. Zori can be worn anytime and anywhere, of course, and if anyone complains that open-toed footwear must not be worn on the premises, one can always tell them where to shove their........... (Dear NES Readers, Cappy has brought a reminiscent tear to OT's eyes, as he did once own 3 of the D-375 dozers, plus a large fleet of other Komatsu machines, with the Cats making up a tiny minority of the 55-strong fleet. But those days are long gone, and today, all OT has left is a photo album, and little else. As the old saying goes, "I started with nothing, and I still have it all".)

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Well, that thing sure got whacked with the ugly stick, didn't it!

......sold many Landcruisers to weekend walliors who wanted to tear up their local sand dunes! So the Landcruiser became the oliginal unbreakable Toyota, and now, having given up our original militaly conquest, when it failed to ploceed, we succeed with economic conquest!! Turbo looked a bit thoughtful when the Japanese bloke expanded on the eventual Japanese conquest of Australia. Then he thought back to when all the Japanese invested in Gold Coast property and the signs started appearing around the GC, reading "オーストラリア人よ、ファック", which led to local outrage, even if..............

It sounds like you've got a patentable idea, there Marty! Better hurry off for a meeting with Boeing before they read this! 😄 The only thing that I see would be needed, is that it it only operates when on the ground, or below "X" level of low speed (taxiing speed), say 40kmh.

The GEnX engines in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner have increased thrust over previous models such as the CF6. The GEnX can generate up to 78,000 lbs of thrust at sea level, thus enabling the Dreamliner to take off with adequate power to spare, even at MTOW in high temperatures and high elevations.

I can remember building a beautiful Kittyhawk about 65 years ago! It never flew! 😞 I could never get the engine to run! I never had any assistance in those days, living in a semi-rural area, so the Kittyhawk ended up collecting dust for decades! I can't even remember what happened to it. It probably got sold at a garage sale for a couple of dollars. That put to bed for good, all my dreams of flying aircraft!

An AF-2S Grumman Guardian? Woo-Hoo! - now you just need the Carrier, to go with it! 😄

QUOTE: "It's really a flying car!" No, it's not - that's just pure BS on a par with Trump BS and lies. It's a big passenger carrying drone, that's all. Plenty of companies worldwide, planning, designing and building them - none of them a "commercially success" yet.

The trash media are using the altitude loss event of an Air India B777 to continue to smear Air India, and make it look like every AI aircraft is a crash waiting to happen. Re Red750's report - The AI B777, Flight AI-187, took off from Delhi during a violent thunderstorm. On climbout, the aircraft obviously flew into a severe bout of turbulence and a heavy downdraught. From official sources - “The (B777) aircraft was involved in an inflight occurrence of stick shaker and GPWS caution. Soon after takeoff, stick shaker warning and GPWS 'don’t sink' caution appeared. Stall warning occurred once, and GPWS caution occurred twice. There was an altitude loss of around 900 feet during climb. Subsequently, the crew recovered the aircraft, and continued the flight to Vienna." However, officials pointed out that the post-flight report for the Delhi-Vienna leg only cited, “stick shaker due to turbulence after takeoff,” without detailing other significant alerts. A deeper review of the flight data recorder (DFDR) - most likely as part of increased surveillance after the AI 171 crash - had revealed additional warnings, including a “don’t sink” GPWS alert and a stall warning, that had not been documented earlier. As a result, the flight crew have been temporarily suspended from further duties until the B777 altitude loss investigation is complete. Possibly the major concern around this incident is the GPWS warning sounding, which indicates terrain was far too close to the flight path.

.......the same design features as the Japanese carriers - narrow gangways and low bulkheads to match the small stature of the Japanese, small hammocks for sleeping areas, food storage areas in the galley that are designed to hold bulk rice, and nothing else, and a tiny galley centred around the production of sushi and sashimi, and rice and ramen dishes only. The Australian navy officials inspecting the new ships were outraged that the personnel spaces were so small, they kept banging their heads and elbows and knees - and it was found most Navy personnel hated the smell of cooking rice, let alone the taste of it. This came back to the experiences of their WW2 POW fathers, which were passed onto their sons. What was worse, it was found the carrier decks were designed to the dimensions that precisely matched Aichi D3A's and Nakajima B5N's, and no current Australian aircraft could land on them. When official complaints were lodged with the Japanese, the Japanese responded with, "Ahh, so ... Ostralia contract did not stipulate..............

Oil coolers are constructed to withstand much higher internal pressures than radiators. Oil pressure can reach 90 - 100psi (620-690kPa), but cooling systems rarely develop more than 16psi (110kPa). Accordingly, cooling system rubber hoses are relatively light construction, whereas any rubber hose components in lube systems, are very robustly constructed. In fact, it pays to eliminate rubber hose components in lube systems, if at all possible, as they're a major source of failure and resultant emergencies and often, serious engine damage. There's also the viscosity and heat-transfer properties of oil and coolant to be considered. Oil is very viscous and flows a lot slower than coolant, and coolant has an improved film transfer coefficient when it comes to heat transfer. Simply put, coolant disperses heat much faster than oil. Oil coolers contain fluid passageways that are larger in dimensions than radiators, thus if they're used for coolant, the coolant is in contact with a reduced surface area for heat dissipation, and therefore your cooling rate for coolant is lower than for a radiator.

The AAIB has released a statement saying they expect to produce a preliminary report by about July 11th. But the preliminary report will only be around 4 to 5 pages and just confirm basic details of the crash. However, it may also indicate the lines of investigation, and therefore the pointers to the cause of the crash. The investigation is ruling out nothing at this point, and is including possible sabotage as one of the lines of investigation. This is not to say sabotage is suspected, only that they have to investigate the potential of sabotage, and examine any information (witnesses or black box evidence) that could increase the likelihood of any sabotage. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/air-india-crash-probe-report-next-week-will-outline-damage-and-possible-causes-8807615

......the local goats, otherwise they'd not only eat the seat off the bike, they'd eat the tyres, too, then use the handlebars for toothpicks. However Turbo, being cluey about Aghani's and their goats as well, knew exactly what was required. Another thing he knew, from long experience, was never turn your back on an Afghan goat, because quicker than you can say "Khyber Pass", that goat will be.............

Waay back in the late 1960's and early 1970's, I spent a lot of time driving earthmoving equipment, that all had open operator stations (read: no cabins of any kind). In Winter, strong Southerly winds would turn your fingers blue at the controls. So we found that the Military surplus stores sold heated flying suits! - cheaply! And they were 24V, too - and thus could be hooked directly into the Cats 24V electrical system! It was pure luxury, wearing these things on bitterly cold days and nights, with winds howling straight off the Antarctic ice floes, across the flatlands of the W.A. Wheatbelt! The only problem we found, was the suits were all cotton, and didn't stand up too well to the rigours of earthmoving equipment use! They had a relatively short life, as compared to the original designed use. But they were the bees knees, when those howling bitterly cold Southerlies blew in mid-Winter! Those winds were referred to as "lazy winds" - they went through you, rather than around you! I think Martys advice is excellent advice! The only other thing I could suggest, is some lightweight insulated panels glued to the interior of your aircraft cabin panels. You can even buy the stuff with the adhesive already applied to one side of it.

Boeing have built 1,189 Dreamliners and they have flown billions and billions of miles, and this is the first Dreamliner hull loss, and the first double engine failure. So the problem is less likely to be a software fault, and more likely to be a combination of faults, or damage, beginning with a totally unforeseen mechanical or electrical failure that cascaded. I'm imagining a burst hydraulic pipe that short-circuited electrical wiring with metal shards, which then shut off the high pressure fuel valves. Something along those lines, and something never imagined possible.

First it was the Russians attacking Ukraine, then it was Israel attacking Iran - now it's extended to Boeings attacking Airbuses! What is the world coming to? Can't everyone just live in peace? 😄

The information regarding Bert Hinklers crash and death in that crash is a mix of guesses and misinformation. The official Australian report is that Hinklers Puss Moth lost a section of the propeller, thus forcing him to make an emergency landing and he hit a tree whilst trying to do so. But this description is incorrect, and based on hearsay and unknown evidence - if any. The facts are that the Italian aviation authority of 1933 carried out an official crash investigation - but the results were not made available to Australian authorities, and it is believed this crash investigation report was destroyed during WW2 war actions. A retired aviation engineer and air crash accident investigator, Clive Phillips, has carried out a thorough assessment of Hinklers fatal crash. He did his assessment based on a limited number of available photos of the crashed aircraft, and various other written sources of information that he gleaned from Italian and other sources. In essence, he states that he believes Hinklers Puss Moth suffered a wing spar failure - which the Puss Moths were notorious for - and he crashed simply because of that loss of a wing. There is a report in the Australian Dictionary of Biography which states that Hinkler survived the crash and died outside the wreckage. This appears to be at odds with the report from the Italian medical authorities at the time that Hinkler died instantly, after being ejected from the aircraft on impact, and he suffered severe cranial and thoracic injuries, which the Italian doctors deemed as causing immediate death. The investigators report is linked to, below. Interestingly, the investigator also owned a Puss Moth, the one on display in the Hinkler Museum. https://aircentre.com.au/aircraft/pioneers/media/whalley-phillips.pdf The very first of the Puss Moth accidents happened just East of Perth in Oct 1930, and it killed the famous and highly skilled aviator, Capt Charles H.F. Nesbit, as well as his two students, a young woman and a man. The Puss Moth crashes are famous for 4 reasons. 1. They killed a lot of famous, careful and skilled pilots. 2. They were international in occurrence. 3. The Puss Moth crashes led to the rapid application of scientific research and definitive causes to aircraft crashes. 4. The Puss Moth crashes largely contributed to the formation of the Aeronautical Research Laboratory of Australia. Below is a fascinating and occasionally humorous outline (despite the grim subject) of the development of air crash investigation in Australia. It is a document produced in 1993, celebrating the first 50 years of aircraft crash investigation by the ARL and associated investigators, and examines all of the early and famous aircraft crashes, and how the truth was sifted from a lot of initial obfuscation. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA267086.pdf

......fully conversant with the Speaking Backwards Language. A lot of people have heard of the Navajo Code Talkers, who were Americas secret weapon during WW2, but few people are aware that Turbo's teacher was the primary instigator of SBL during WW2, and she was responsible for saving many Australian soldiers lives, by confusing the Japanese forces listening in to Australian forces radio transmissions. Her unique language was taught in the Australian Army Signals Corp, thus resulting in a large group of people who could converse fluently in SBL. You can occasionally hear SBL being spoken in bars and hotels by people who've had way too much to drink, and it sounds like they're talking slurred rubbish - but people in the know (hint, hint), immediately recognise that language and speaker, and they deserve respect, not...........

And you said this, on Page One? ..... QUOTE: "The schools I have used have never supplied any t and c,s." So what is that on the bottom of the form you signed? 😄

Turbo, I wouldn't strictly say it was correct that the U.S. Govt "took away" divisions of GM. In 1959, the U.S. Govt, fearful of GM's massive financial powers, initiated an anti-trust lawsuit against GM, specifically against its merger with the Euclid Road Machinery Company, that occurred in Sept 1953. This was the precursor of the U.S. Govts attempts to break up GM. In essence, Euclid, prior to its merger with GM, used a variety of engines for its construction equipment, mostly GM 2 stroke diesels or Cummins. Once Euclid was folded into GM, you could only get GM diesels and Allison transmissions, nothing else. Companies such as Clark, Cummins, and Caterpillar were dismayed at GM's massive controlling ability in the construction equipment field, and complained bitterly. As a result, the Clayton Act lawsuit was initiated. Added to this lawsuit, in 1961, the U.S. DoJ initiated criminal charges against GM executives, in relation to GM's Electromotive Division (EMD), which according to the D0J, used its massive rail freighting power (shipping GM products) to arm-twist railroads into buying EMD locomotives. GM stonewalled the Govt on these charges until the DoJ gave up. More Anti-Trust actions were proposed as regarding the too-close tie-up between DuPont and GM, and between GM and GMAC (GM Acceptance Corp, the finance arm of GM). I'm not conversant with the GMAC result, but in the case of DuPont, DuPont was forced to divest itself of its huge level of GM shares. The Euclid lawsuit dragged on for years, with Robert F Kennedy, as the U.S. Govt A-G, playing a large part in the negotiations. GM was finally ordered to divest itself of Euclid, in 1968. GM sold Euclid to the White Truck Corporation - but because the legal decision only affected the U.S., GM kept their Euclid factory outside the U.S. (specifically, Motherwell in Scotland) and shortly after, renamed its construction equipment division, Terex. From there, Terex went on to have a very fractured history, with GM selling Terex to the IBH company of Germany in 1981. Unfortunately, IBH was run by a con-artist, and when all his fraud was uncovered, IBH went bankrupt. Terex was then broken up again into multiple operations, and eventually recovered as a construction force under management ownership. America has strong laws against monopolies and deceitful corporate actions, but trying to prove them in court, when those corporations can also employ gifted lawyers with accountancy degrees as well, mean the U.S. Govt often has great difficulty pinning illegality on corporate moves, that the corporations insist, are all for the betterment of everyone! Speech by A-G Robert Kennedy, 1961, outlining his approach to Anti-Trust law enforcement - https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/ag/legacy/2011/01/20/11-13-1961.pdf 1960 Anti-Trust lawsuit against GM by the U.S. Govt - https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/183/858/1973615/ EMD Anti-Trust case - https://utahrails.net/loconotes/emd-antitrust-case.php The DuPont, GM shares divestiture - https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/us-supreme-court-orders-du-pont-disburse-gm-holdings Interesting outline of the U.S. Govts Anti-Trust actions against GM in the 1960's - https://www.pontiacv8.com/blog/2018/9/14/gms-infamous-racing-ban-of-1963 Wikipedia article on Euclid - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_Trucks