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.......the origins of the Chiko Roll. Now, the standard story, promoted by the mainstream media, is that the Chiko Roll was invented by Frank McEncroe, a boilermaker from Bendigo. Nothing could be further from the truth, because the mainstream media all believe that the origin of all truth, only comes the Eastern States - when the people of Western Australia know full well, that the East Coasters lie through their teeth constantly. The Truth behind the invention of the Chiko Roll, is that it was invented in Western Australia and copied by Frank McEncroe when he made a rare trip West, and tasted a genuine original Chiko Roll. The Chiko Roll was invented on a cold Winters night, by a famous relative of OT's, one Augustus Fulltrack, who ran a large food van in the downtown area of Norseman, catering to hungry, tired, long-haul truckies, who had no choice in that long ago era, but to keep their slow, gutless, rough-riding old International and Dodge trucks, with their heavily-tarped 34 foot semi-trailers, rolling across the endless miles of the Nullarbor Plain, and the more dreary parts of South Australia, to keep the dreadful products from the factories of the East, continuing to flow to the West. The worst of those products of the East Coast factories would have been Tom Piper Steak & Onions in a can. It was the staple fall-back emergency meal when the food cupboard was bare - and it was the staple meal of "tinned dog" for all those East-West truckies. One cold Norseman night, a tired and hungry truckie called into Augustus Fulltracks' food van, and said to him, "Mate, can you knock up something that tastes half-decent, and which doesn't taste like Tom Piper Steak & Onions? I can taste nothing but Tom Piper Steak & Onions, day and night, and I'm so heartily sick of it!!" So, Augustus, being a resourceful type of bloke - as are all the Track family - rummaged around and found a cabbage in reasonable condition, along with an onion and a stick of celery that wasn't mouldy - plus a bit of leftover mince that was only hours away from walking out of the fridge by itself - and Augustus then found a tray of batter that he'd been experimenting with, for increased strength and texture, and easy handling - and within 10 minutes, Augustus had produced the food wonder now known worldwide, as the Chiko Roll. When the truckie bit into it, he said, "This tastes great, what's it called?" - and Augustus, ever a quick-thinker, said "Chiko Roll", naming it after the local layabout known as "Chiko", who resided against the wall of Norseman's Railway Hotel day after day, with his swag roll. No-one knew where Chiko came from, or how he got his name - but everyone, from far and wide, knew about Chiko, and regularly handed him spare change to keep him going. Chiko survived on leftovers from Augustus' food van, so he always remained pretty healthy. However, there came the day when.............

The big fire burning the fuselage would help me take a lot bigger steps away from the wreckage! I'm amazed the fuselage stayed in one piece, kudos to the CRJ designers.

.....frozen chiko rolls together, and he watched in great concern as the broken pieces rolled across the floor, giving him.........

Never try to paint anything without a sealed paint booth. One mosquito or fly can do an enormous amount of damage to a fresh paint job. You can buy cheap inflatable Chinese paint booths that are good value. Use plenty of thinner and lay down several very thin coats, waiting a few seconds between coats for the first coat to go tacky. Use premium grade paints, they're worth the extra money. If using two-pack, make sure you use the exact ratio of hardener, that the hardener is fresh, and ensure you have, and use, an airwash hood. The ingredients of two-pack paints are potent carcinogens. The temperature when you paint is crucial, never less than 15°, and never more than 35°. Finally, keep your paint and hardener in the workshop fridge, so it lasts longer (and make sure you mark it properly, so there's no confusion!).

It's not "direct facial recognition" with all the cameras, they merely take good footage of you - and the footage can be made available to police, for inquiries related to criminal investigations. Any private video or camera footage cannot be demanded or be forced on the spot to be handed over to authorities, but orders can be made for police to have access to it, for crime solving purposes. If you are in a "public place", you can be photographed or videoed. But you cannot be videoed or photographed if you are in a "private place" and have an expectation that there is no intrusion by others. Thus, there are no cameras in toilets - but there ARE cameras in the areas/passageways leading up to toilet doors. The only direct facial recognition that is Govt sanctioned and in use, is when you step through that passport ID recognition setup in airports. THAT system DEFINITELY involves facial recognition and it checks against your face on your passport photo. But, be aware that cameras today have very good resolution, they are mounted by the hundreds along major roads, and at traffic lights - they're mounted in parks, city open spaces, cafes and restaurants - in shops - and in speed cameras, and in mobile phone use cameras. The images can be zoomed in on for clear identification, so keep legal! Here's a story to give you a chuckle, showing that the systems still have large holes. Stepdaughters partner had the loan of one of my Hilux utes for a few weeks, while his Falcon was being repaired after a bingle. He was snapped by a speed camera just past the top of Greenmount Hill on the Gt Eastern Hwy, at around 8:00PM. He got the "bluey" for a $100 speeding fine in the mail a few weeks later (he was only a few kms/hr over the 80kmh limit) - but the part that made his eyeballs bulge, was - the photo showed his face VERY clearly - and it also VERY clearly showed him yapping away on his mobile phone!! He paid the $100 fine very promptly, before someone in the traffic fines dept, woke up to the fact that they'd missed an opportunity to lob a $1000 mobile phone use fine on him!! 😄

In the wheatbelt, it's compulsory to have a fire trailer and pump with a minimum of 1000 litres on hand, if you want to do any angle grinding or cutting of steel anywhere - even on a bare industrial block in a townsite.

......the Turbine Feather Pillow Manufacturing Group Inc., to see if they could use some extra feathers, going cheap. At the sound of the word "cheap", the CEO of TFPMG, one Willie McCloud Turbine, who had invented the Feather Pillow during a lull in fighting between the Highlanders and the English in 1746 ( a battle otherwise known as the Battle of Culloden - but which was known in the McCloud Turbine family as, "jist another wee skirmish wi' da Sassenachs!"), pricked up his ears. It was this need for peaceful rest during warring events, that led to wee Wullie (as he was known) to experiment with a range of various feathers to determine the best sleep quality of each type. Of course, Moa feathers, being an expensive import, were bypassed by Willie as too costly (penny-pinching runs in the McCloud Turbine family branch), and he settled on various other feathers, finally determining that ducks slept best out of all the birds, so duck feathers had to be the correct choice for that era. But moving forward to the McCloud Turbine Clan's time in Australia, and with a need to find more feathers as the duck feather supply was dwindling, due to too many Victorian duck shooters, and he saw in the Moa feathers offering, a real opportunity to...........

MB, it's old news now, the CRJ made a terribly hard landing (reasons unknown), a fire started, and then the vertical stabiliser and a wing snapped off - then the aircraft skidded at 90° to the runway, and the remaining wing and aircraft fuselage turned turtle. About 8 people suffered injuries, 3 are critical, possibly as a result of undoing seatbelts whilst inverted, and falling and landing on their heads on the roof. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-19/video-shows-moment-delta-air-lines-flight-crashes-flips-toronto/104953244 https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/delta-plane-crash-toronto-pearson-airport-minneapolis-st-paul-international-airport/

I'd have to opine the Lycosaurus' were a lot cheaper than any high-tech FADEC, Mercedes-based diesel - and I understand the Lycosaurus produces more grunt? (180HP VS 168HP). Also, it seems the Austro AE 300 engine has a shorter lifespan, and no ability to overhaul, so you need to buy a brand new donk every time, at around US$60K? And finally, the DA40 NG has a lesser climb rate, and a higher landing speed than the DA40 XLT. Looks like a no-brainer in choice, to me. https://www.diamondaircraft.com/en/private-owners/aircraft/da40/tech-specs/

Yeah, right ... thieves even stole a Jabiru from Northam in 2013, and abandoned in a farmers paddock near York! https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/stolen-plane-may-have-been-taken-on-joy-ride-20130617-2oe2t.html

No, it's not just rivalry between families in Northam, it's a hotbed of crime with constant thieving, drug dealing and assaults. The W.A. Police have just ramped up their numbers in Northam, because the crims thought nothing of bashing police every chance they got. The crime rate in Northam has been soaring for 6 years, and the W.A. Police are just crowing now, about how they've got it to come down a bit. If you think I don't know what I'm talking about, let me tell you, I have 5 family members who are/were in the police force here, my nephew has a big industrial property at Grass Valley, just East of Northam, and despite 24 hr security, his business got broken into, and the thieves stole thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment and other equipment. It was a local gang. Businesses in Northam are broken into frequently, and car theft levels are high in Northam. My stepson went out with a policewoman for a while, who told him she was getting a transfer to Northam, because it was a "high risk" zone where police got rotated out of quickly, and which meant an improved chance of promotion. It didn't work out for her, the crims beat the crap out her, and she ended up in hospital with major injuries. I parked in a carpark in town near a public toilet a few years back, because my missus wanted to go to the toilet. I wondered why she was taking so long. When she got back to the car, she was scared and angry. Two suntanned juveniles around 15 or 16 followed her into the womens toilet and started posing highly suggestive questions to her, asking her how "she'd like it up the a**e?" They kept up their line of questioning, brazen as they come, in a womans toilet! You can often find the scumbags hiding in cubicles, waiting for women to come in. She was absolutely sh****** herself at the threat posed by these juveniles, and she locked herself in a cubicle until they left. This is not an uncommon occurrence, you keep up your guard near any public toilets, and watch where you go at night in Northam.

Unfortunately, johnm, the stats prove me correct. And I have a number of relatives and friends who have homes and businesses in Northam. Northam is home to a substantial number of criminals, welfare recipients and drug users. Bindoon and Lower Chittering have a sizeable percentage of larger block owners (rural residential) and no "welfare" housing. https://www.microburbs.com.au/Crime-Disadvantage/Bindoon https://www.homely.com.au/suburb-profile/northam-wa-6401 https://www.homely.com.au/suburb-profile/lower-chittering-wa-6084 The major disadvantage of Bindoon airstrip is it can only used on weekends as Pearce RAAF base demands the airspace during the week for training, as the Bindoon Military Area is nearby, and this area is used for mock aerial attack training, as well as a large area around and N of Pearce, is reserved for RAAF student pilot training.

Moneybox, what's wrong with Bindoon airstrip, instead of Northam? It's a lot easier to get into Perth from Bindoon - and Bindoon has zero crime, unlike Northam, which is full of thieves.

.....one Kiwis idea to design an aircraft that used both a nosewheel and a tailwheel, that caused a revolution in the recreational aviation field. "It luks like a shupping trulley!" exclaimed another Kiwi aviator, who bore a great resemblance to.........

.....advised Kim that beating Trump at his own game would take more than a BUGC degree, and he suggested he'd be more than able to assist Kim in acquiring more.........

It's Dusty Crophopper in the metal!! (or wood or composite, whichever it is).

Brendan, I see you trailered it with the fully approved tail wheel support, supplied by the Aviation Dairy Supply Company.

Yes, there's a lot of gaps in the scenarios that need addressing. As with so many "advanced" aviation ideas, we might all have long white beards before any of them actually come to practical development and use. I can see where they might be useful for dropping cargo to remote locations, or maybe even carrying out some rescues - but as far as carrying people is concerned, I think they've got a lo-o-ong way to go.

Marty, it looks like they use a sort of "wobble drive" universal-joint setup in the driveshaft. This system simply tilts the rotors. They claim they're aiming for maximum simplicity and the minimum number of parts/components to stay aloft safely. Their cruise speed is a reputed 130kmh, and probably the interesting part is they are claiming "automatic flight", rather than "autonomous flight". They say that it will be many years before totally autonomous flight is possible and achievable, thus they're concentrating on automatic flight, using fixed flight paths, and pre-designated take-off and landing areas. This seems to indicate remote control of these e-copters. It looks like they're aiming at inner-city air-taxi type operations and cargo deliveries. https://www.flynow-aviation.com/

Mat's small number of posts on here indicated a reasonably good understanding about the limitations involved in flying light aircraft, but it appears he succumbed to the age-old problem of poor pilot decision-making, in taking off into inclement weather, obviously feeling a pressing need to carry out his flight. I would opine we've all seen reports of reportedly good pilots with modest levels of experience, making poor decisions to take off, when they should've stayed grounded. I'm not so sure that another 15 or 20 hrs of pilot training would have benefited Mat, unless that training really hammered decision-making, relating to whether a flight would be able to be safely carried out or not. The problem centres around the fact that everyone is different when it comes to decision-making, and some of us are more impulsive than others. https://www.recreationalflying.com/profile/11812-mat-farrell/content/

That screenshot looks like he's relieving himself, before he even gets in! What a clever idea!!

The crash report is only preliminary, the NTSB did not travel to the scene of the crash, and all the "evidence" presented is from the pilots and witnesses statements. https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/195385/pdf

The first clip has been made using illegally-acquired genuine footage. The thieving internet scumbags use a mirroring copying technique which reverses the imaging to get around YouTube copyright and watermark checks.

For bobcharl - here is the link to the discussion, "Started a spare parts list" ...

The tubing will likely be precision seamless drawn tubing, made from aviation grade alloy, heat treated and tempered to a British or American Standard. The precision finish is required to ensure minimal unevenness in wall thickness. No aluminium agricultural pipe for carrying water would have any degree of strength, it is seamed (a weakness), and it would have a large variation in wall thickness over each length. However, you can purchase Unipipe, which is produced in a range of aluminium alloys, some of which are designed for high pressure piping, and which may have adequate strength. The "T" reference in the aluminium grades refers to the heat treatment, with T6 being the strongest and toughest aluminium grade - but it is also the grade with the lowest level of elongation. Elongation is the figure that shows just how much a metal stretches before it fractures. Lower strength metals will generally have higher elongation rates than high strength metals, but this is not always 100% the case. Good corrosion resistance is also a highly desirable characteristic of any aluminium material used in an aircraft. Aircraft Materials WWW.AIRCRAFTMATERIALS.COM Aluminium 6060 Data Sheet - BlueScope Distribution WWW.BLUESCOPEDISTRIBUTION.COM.AU 6060 is a medium strength heat treatable alloy with good corrosion resistance, weldability and responsiveness to anodising. See the data sheet here.