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As the singular newspaper article (which was reprinted in several other papers of the time) is dependent upon a single persons report - and the fact that there were no follow-up reports, or ensuing stories about Richard Rowes wonderful flying machine, one has to suspect that a grand hoax was being carried out. Even if he had built a flying machine and crashed it, that would certainly have made for further newsworthy reports. Richard Rowe appears to have vanished from any written records after that solitary flying report, and that in itself is unusual, because even if the person kept a low profile, they appear in newspaper family notices at other times.

The Kiwi farmer, Richard Pearse, did get airborne in some fashion possibly prior to the Wright Bros, but it wasn't controlled or sustained flight, unlike the Wright Bros. The American, Gustave Whitehead, who it is claimed, flew before the Wright Bros, is also one of the other largely unsubstantiated early flyers. It's also likely that Whitehead made a few hops into the air, but once again, his versions of his flying exploits, and the affidavits of the small number of witnesses who sighted him airborne, are regularly in dispute. Richard William Pearse, 1877-1953 MY.CHRISTCHURCHCITYLIBRARIES.COM Richard Pearse was a South Canterbury inventor, engineer and farmer. He is famous for being one of the first people on Earth to leave…

I do draw a lot of conclusions indeed, from a grainy photograph - but the similarity of the design of the aircraft in the photo, to a 1909 Farman III biplane, is too much to ignore. People die, and photograph details are forgotten. I believe that's a Farman fuel tank sitting just above the heads of the people in the centre of the photo. It's quite likely that Richard Rowe did build a box-kite glider and got airborne with it. Many people in remote areas did record-breaking things that were never recorded properly, and the Wright Bros are noted for their self-promotion and chasing notoriety. They were fortunate to live in a well populated area with plenty of Press on hand. Farman III - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

He's not a Brenda - he's Brendan, the huge snarly tattooed truckie, and that could create trouble for you, calling him a girl.

I reckon pmccarthy is onto it, the photos are of a later canard-type biplane, and the dress of the ladies (and carrying parasols) is indicative of a European scene around 1910. Cameras were in their infancy in 1889, the Kodak No. 1 was the first camera available to ordinary people in 1888, but it cost a lot of money, and film was also extraordinarily expensive, as it used silver, and silver was a precious metal. There would've been very few cameras in NSW in 1889, and it would've been exceptionally rare for anyone to have a camera readied for an aviation tinkerers attempt at flight, at that time.

Imagine the massive hue and cry if the heli had been full of Govt VIP's or politicians, and a dozen of them died, too? There'd be immediate upgrades of flight planning and ATC operations, on a huge scale.

Original newspaper articles are linked to, below. I'd have to opine Richard Rowe built himself a box kite in the same style as Lawrence Hargrave. However, it's interesting that Rowe got airborne in 1889 and Hargrave didn't fly in his box kite until 1894. There was a lot of interest in building kites that could carry a person in this period, the 1880's. Australian aviation pioneer Lawrence Hargrave celebrated 130 years after first heavier-than-air flight - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Australian inventor Lawrence Hargrave created history when he was lifted off the ground in a flying device he created in 1894. Now, 130 years later, he is remembered as a generous pioneer whose... AN AERIAL VEHICLE. - Cootamundra Herald (NSW : 1877 - 1954) - 12 Oct 1889 TROVE.NLA.GOV.AU AN ingenious young man named Richard Rowe, of Whitton, has constructed an aerial machine which bids fair to become an unparalleled success and entitle his name to be ... A FLYING MACHINE. - Ten Miles an Hour. ALBURY, Friday. - The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909) - 26 Oct 1889 TROVE.NLA.GOV.AU The Riverina Grazier publishes an article from its correspondent at Carratliool to the effect that a young man, named Richard Rowe, of Whitton, has succeeded ...

I rebuilt the trusses to 8M span with new SHS, because the originals were only 4.8M span, and they were open at the ends and iron ore dust had got into the SHS and caused corrosion. I was originally just going to extend the trusses, it was easier and quicker to just buy some new SHS and cut the brackets off the old trusses and weld them to the new SHS. Yes, you're right, I'm slowing down, too, I'm 75, but you have to do something to keep yourself occupied! I'm fortunate in that I picked up an old Fowler tractor crane for $1500, it's just the shot for lifting stuff around. Not pretty, and it has its limits, but it's still very handy.

Cue Airport is a designated airport, not just an airstrip, so it comes under Federal laws relating to airport operation and ownership. I can't quickly find the ownership status of the land the Cue airport is on, but all the Shire information states that they own and run the Cue airport. There are two land titles involved in the Cue airport location, one inside the other, but it appears the larger outer one comprises the airport land boundaries, The airport land title may be freehold, or it could be simply leasehold - you can apply through Landgate to acquire all the ownership details, but you have to pay a fee, I think it's around $25.00. All the Council planning revolves around plans that indicate the airport is a Shire asset. The airport title is Lot number P092062 93. You'll often find in the old Govt Gazettes, that land was allocated to the likes of "Recreation, Racecourse, Showground and Aerial Landing Ground", with an identifying Govt Reserve number. Many of those Reserves have since been changed to freehold titles or leasehold titles. Leasehold titles are more common in the Goldfields and Pastoral regions of W.A. https://www.cue.wa.gov.au/documents/22/corporate-business-plan-2023-2027 Landgate Map Viewer Plus MAP-VIEWER-PLUS.APP.LANDGATE.WA.GOV.AU

Steel is horribly expensive today, and shed kit suppliers and builders don't care what they charge, they have more work than they can poke a stick at. If the Cue Council is agreeable to the construction of a used shed, then picking up a dismantled shed or used shed frame can be an attractive option. The sheds built from lipped channel are flimsy, they will buckle up in a willy-willy. Go for portal-frame structural steel. I'm currently building an 8M x 12M x 4M shed using modified portal frames made from structural steel, that came from a powerhouse at Koolyanobbing. Stratco want $25,000 for a shed that size, made from pressed metal. I'll do it for less than half that figure and that includes buying all new Z-purlins and girts and new Colorbond sheeting. I found a young bloke in Darlington who does draughting, structural design and council planning, and he's knocking up the plans for the shed, doing the structural calculations, and drawing up all the paperwork for the council, so I can get a building permit. You have to do all this yourself in W.A. today, there was a big change in 2012 as regards building construction permits and procedures. Before 2012, you submitted plans, and the council had to do all the assessments, now YOU have to provide all the engineering certificates, calculations, etc, so the council just has to check it all out on the submitted paperwork and then approve or reject the submission. It reduces the amount of work the council has to do, and throws it all on your shoulders. There's a FB page called "Best Sheds of W.A.", but it's set up by a shed builder who specialises in pressed-metal sheds, and all the followers want the cheapest pressed-metal shed they can get. But the group is full of useful information and contacts. Log into Facebook WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Log into Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know. The wreckage photos shows what happens to pressed-metal sheds, when a decent storm comes through. It can be pretty devastating.

Submissions page ..... /images/template/Default_Classified_150_90.png Review of the Transport Security Amendment (Security of Australia's Transport Sector) Bill 2024 – Parliament of Australia WWW.APH.GOV.AU Review of the Transport Security Amendment (Security of Australia's Transport Sector) Bill 2024

What Skip is better off doing is approaching his Federal MP and asking if a review of the ASIC system is overdue, and whether the ASIC system is still RELEVANT to todays world. All security systems need a regular re-assessment to determine whether they have developed security holes, or whether new threats have emerged that aren't being addressed, and how much of previously-identified threats still exist. There's little to stop a determined evildoer acquiring a fake ASIC card and presenting himself airside to do damage. That's probably the weakest part of the whole ASIC system. The secret to security is having people around who are alert to new people appearing, who shouldn't be in critical locations, and those alert people acting on their suspicions. 90% of crimes are solved by some member of the public becoming suspicious of unusual activity, and alerting authorities or providing vital evidence.

An interesting little story here, showing how even small tweaks to proven designs can add up to improvements in airflow and substantial reductions in fuel costs, over time. It'd be good to find out what level of money and effort they spent on designing and testing of the vanes, just to see what went into them in total, but I guess the effort and money was repaid within a relatively short time frame, with overall fuel savings. Tiny vanes glued to planes promise big savings for US Air Force NEWATLAS.COM A surprisingly simple tweak is making a venerable military transport aircraft more efficient. Literally gluing a few microvanes to the rear fuselage of a C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane can result in fuel...

Don't work that old Gay-lion too hard, the last rigid-frame Galion was built nearly 40 years ago, and sourcing new parts might be a little difficult today!

iBob, the height drop of the CRJ700 is uninformed conjecture. The NTSB says the airliner was at 325 feet (+ or - 25 feet) and was doing nothing wrong. Crash data suggests helicopter flew too high, plane tried to climb in last second WWW.SMH.COM.AU One second before impact, pilots of the American Airlines plane had a “verbal reaction” and the plane increased its pitch – indicating they pulled back on the controls, trying to climb.

.....remembered stepping off his trawler and getting a cab to the local uproarious FNQ boozer, the "Sailors Arms" (you know, the one with the flashing neon sign of the barely-clad girl, that features on the tattoo on the forearm of most sailors?) - going into the front bar and having a gorgeous and delightfully-scantily-clad girl bring him a large drink - then from there, things got very hazy, and bull struggled to remember how he managed to end up at the Kappoka Writing Room, and how he was speaking (well, slurring, anyway) on a subject that was..........

1 U.S. gallon is 3.8 litres, so 820 U.S. gallons is 3,116 litres = 3,116kgs. That's a lot of payload to be trying to climb rapidly with.

And at that point, the CRJ700 crew are on final, and focusing on landing and instruments, and most certainly NOT expecting ANY aircraft to be anywhere near them. And ATC procedures are poor there, by not giving specific advice to the heli crew, as to where to look for the location and direction of the CRJ700. Finally, the bottom line, why would you have no vertical separation between the aircraft? It's like ATC set them up to collide, instead of keeping them 500 feet apart.

......calls from the audience of "GINA!, GINA!, GINA!!", as they all wanted to see her proficiency with a ping pong ball. So Gina got up on the stage, held up a ping pong ball and said, "This is a ping pong ball, we don't have many of these in W.A. - but what we do have in W.A., is lots of these!! - and at that, she whipped out a huge iron ore rock, and held it up with a grin like a Cheshire Cat. The audience went wild, they wanted to see Gina do the Iron Ore Rock trick. But within seconds, the roars turned to boos, as Gina whipped out a big silver texta with her free hand, and wrote on the rock, "Ha ha, Suckers and Losers, I've got all the Iron Ore and all the money!", and her grin got bigger and bigger, until........

U.S. rescue authorities have retrieved 28 bodies from the wreckage of both aircraft and they are stating there will be no survivors from the disaster, so the death toll will end up 67 in total. RIP to the victims and sympathy to the distraught families, there were quite a number of young people on the CRJ700, nearly an entire team of figure-skating professionals. Trumps response has been to issue an executive order banning DEI hires in any Govt Aviation authority, but there's no proof at this point, that any DEI selection process had anything to do with the crash.

It was a training flight for the helicopter crew, and this "training scenario" is starting to rear its ugly head more often recently in air disasters. Too much looking inside the cockpit, and not enough looking outside?

The graphics that show visual separation at low level, at high-traffic locations, at night - where there's a huge amount of ground-level lighting - just doesn't work.

Some confusion over the passenger aircraft load. Some information coming through, that only 38 seats were booked. A small saving grace is that the Potomac is only 3 feet to 7 feet deep where the wreckage landed. Then of course, there's the major question of what ATC were doing, when they must have sighted emerging collision courses - and what was a helicopter doing, flying through an approach lane at low altitude?

I'll be surprised if there's any survivors. You can see the aircraft exploded upon impact with the helicopter, and hitting freezing water at possibly 250kmh, would mean a lot of fatalities instantly - and any survivors would be struggling to escape the wreckage before they froze. I think you get about 10 mins in freezing water before you start to get hypothermia. The aircraft was a Bombardier CRJ700.

The PT6A can put out up to 1940HP. They have a staggering reliability record, 1 shutdown every 651,000 hrs! They were first built in 1958.