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    Is he really trying to skim the treetops constantly, or is it because that thing is struggling to gain altitude? A few times there, I was sure he was into the trees. He's game, picking nothing but tiger country to fly over, for what is essentially a totally unproven aircraft?
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    I've seen a NOS Simonini engine for sale here locally, if someone is interested. Not sure why it was purchased, and never used.
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    .......full metal jacket on the old blind gentleman, and ripped his cane off him, and broke it into pieces, all the while screaming, "Don't you ever call me.........
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    No fire ants in Victoria AFAIK, and I wasn't carrying honey or honey products, or fruit. Rust? Yeah, I had plenty of rusty components! LOL Never heard of rust being a quarantine problem for W.A., we've had rust in wheat here since the earliest part of the 20th century. Skeleton weed is still a concern.
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    You'll be right. I went through the border in mid-May with 4.5 tonnes of earthmover parts covered in Victorian dirt and crap, and the young bloke on duty was pretty cheery, and simply blew the load down with a leaf blower, and let me through! And the truck was unregistered, too! LOL However, he did need my movement permit number for his records. Weed seeds are what they're mostly concerned about, and if you've come from any area where known problems exist.
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    .....who was above all this crass, class-crawling behaviour - our indomitable Capt bull. bull knew, as a prawn trawler Captain, he was above all this kind of stuff - and besides, he preferred to sit alone all the time, anyway, just to keep himself apart from the Turbine and Cappy and sales rep rabble. Naturally, having a very strong, clinging odour of prawns about him on a constant basis, only ensured that bull always sat alone, anyway. That was, until the day a senior............
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    So.... these often exorbitantly expensive heat transfer compounds are revealed in the TDS's, to contain nothing more than silicone oil, and zinc oxide as an inorganic, largely inert filler. Both are relatively cheap - silicone oil is noted for its heat transfer properties, and zinc oxide is used widely in a large range of products, with sunscreen being a major user. Silicone oil has been used in viscous fan clutch hubs for donkeys years, it's not exactly worth stealing, like catalytic converters are. So why the massive charges for this heat transfer compound as soon as it's labelled for aviation use? It sounds like the classic sideshow spielers have got into the heat transfer compound market. Skippys on the mark - no point in being ripped off simply because Rotax recommend a certain brand of the product.
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    ....Made in China!!!", he exclaimed. "Well, I'll be f******!!" exclaimed OT. "I didn't see those little stickers on them, when I bought them from TurboCrayBoats, Inc! There'll be some repercussions come out of this shady deal, for sure!!" - and OT reached for..........
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    Ian, I'm quite happy for you to amalgamate the two sites. I'm sure you'll be able to set it up so that Social Australia is identified as a social forum, and a separate area to RF. There's always going to be some "pollution" of content, no matter what you're running - threads going off-topic are common on most forums, anyway. Moderation keeps them on topic. I'm surprised that there's a higher percentage of spammers and scammers on Social Australia. Is there something you do on RF, that keeps spammers and scammers to a low level? I've reported scammers in the RF classifieds numerous times, so they must still get in. I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in keeping spammers and scammers out of forums, one just minimises them with intense moderation. I quite enjoy the S.A. forum and I was hoping my annual $50 contribution went a good way towards covering the cost of operating it. Please don't ever transfer anything to FB, it's the home of scammers and the owner's morality and ethics is suspect, too. Plus their format is utter crap, it's all centred around "likes", and much puerile content.
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    There's a big difference between grams and millilitres, you're comparing apples to oranges. Grams is weight measure, ml is volume measure. You can have a vast difference in quantity for the same numerical amount, depending on the S.G. of the particular product.
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    Stainless steel bolts can never be rated as "high tensile", you need low-alloy steel for that requirement. 6mm diameter sounds to me like a serious under-estimation, or under engineering, of the loading on them, in a major crash.
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    John Wagner of Wellcamp Airport fame, has thrown his fat wallet down, to help finance infrastructure for pilot-less eVTOL taxis. Of course, with him owning an airport, he can see more money-making synergies in financing the infrastructure for uncrewed air taxis . Businessman John Wagner signs deal with Skyports to develop air taxis for south-east Queensland - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Businessman John Wagner backs the use of flying taxis ahead of the 2032 Olympics but there are still a few hurdles for the technology to overcome.
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    ........the major carrot farms were located, looking to haul back a decent supply of carrots, to enable them to carrot a few more of the........
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    I've heard nothing about the flying hoverbikes the Dubai Police were supposed to be using by now?
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    .......bull, who wanted the NES to continue broadly along the lines of his story involving the Gubbmint taking every right and possession off every upstanding citizen, in a slow and stealthy manner, over many years, under the guise of, "we're from the Gubbmint, and we're here to help you.......
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    Scrap was gathered from everywhere to fuel the furnaces for war. I can recall when in the U.K., learning how the steel and wrought iron fences around many important homes and places were pulled out and melted down. Aluminium scrap was sought far and wide. Every single item with even a small amount of aluminium in it was gathered up and fed into the furnaces. Cars, trucks, tractors, anything deemed to not be repairable was sent to scrap. I can recall an old Italian wrecker at Dog Swamp, W.A., who retired in 1974, telling me how he nearly cried when he thought back to how many beautiful brass and chrome radiator shells and headlights and trims, from now rare and outstanding vehicles of the 1920's and 1930's, were sent by him for scrap, for the War effort. Check out the photos on the AWM site, of the monstrous piles of scrap gathered up for the War effort. Even old tyres assumed enormous value for their rubber content when the Japanese had cornered the rubber supplies in 1942 and 1943.
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    Yes, my apologies, I meant to write "Allied" instead of "American", but I was distracted when I wrote that line up and was concentrating on other things. According to the site below, though, the U.S. Merchant Marine suffered the worst losses of all the civilian shipping losses during WW2 - 733 ships over 1000 tons lost, and 1,554 ships in total. Many U.S. ships were either reflagged or sailed under flags of countries that were U.S. possessions - such as the Phillipines and Panama. The Panama Canal was under U.S. possession during WW2. U.S. Merchant Ships Sunk or Damaged in World War II WWW.USMM.ORG American Merchant Marine Ships Sunk or Damaged During World War II
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    Good thing he had plenty of power available!!
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    It doesn't take much contemplation to see why the design didn't proceed. Not a lot of money to be made from an aircraft that size, that only carries 6 pax.
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    They were very lucky to survive in that heavy timber. Link to ABC report .... Pair freed from wreckage after light plane crashes east of Gympie - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Two Sunshine Coast men were treated at the scene before being taken to hospital after their aircraft came down in a rural area at Coondoo just before 11.30am.
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    Genuine Honda parts - "Made in China"! It must feel good, relying 100% on staying airborne, using the finest Chinese-manufactured components!? 😮
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    .......rights to fly highly modified kit-built aircraft away from us, and only allow professionally-built factory aircraft to fly. This, of course, will lead to a vast underground movement of illegal kit-built aircraft, flying at odd hours, with unregistered pilots - and outlaws will rule the sky!! And amongst the biggest of the rebellious aerial outlaws, will be the one known far and wide as, "bull of the tasmanian backwoods", whose daring disobeyance of Govt rules and regulations pertaining to flying will become the stuff of Legend, as he thumbs his nose at all type of Govt controls and regulation, and he'll carry firearms with him to back up his rebel stance. As part of his new modus operandi, bull will have a large decal applied to his illegally-built and illegally-flown aircraft, with the words "Don't Step On Me!" emblazoned in 36 point Sans Serif, with the Brotherhood message screaming "Danger", to any Govt official who dares to........
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    What an amazing shot, and being able to find an aircraft tug still in position. I'd have to opine it was chained down or held in place with steel wire rope. I'd like to see photos of all the new items of machinery and aircraft that went down in the Atlantic between 1941 and 1944, thanks to the German U-boats. America lost 3,500 ships to the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic, and most were Merchant Marine ships, and poorly armed or completely unarmed. They were nearly all full of new equipment for the British and Soviet militaries - aircraft, trucks, jeeps, tractors, Caterpillar dozers and graders, and other earthmovers. New portable gensets, new engines, new tyres, new construction materials, and a thousand other items needed to support the War effort. Battle of the Atlantic - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
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    I fail to understand why anyone would want a dark-coloured aircraft, car, or house in our generally hot climate. Sitting on the tarmac on any day over 25°C in a light aircraft with minimal ventilation, and you soon start to feel like you're in an oven. Dark colours increase internal heating by a sizable amount. Red is about the worst colour of all, for heating up.
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    Plenty of Boeings have gone into the ocean, or terrain, stalled. 90% of aircraft crashes are pilot error, says the crash statistics. I think you need to troll elsewhere. How about bringing up a story about regular Russian pilot incompetence, or Tupolev unreliability?
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