onetrack

In the case of the Airbus sudden dive near Exmouth, I believe there was always a level of suspicion that an EMF event from VLF transmissions at the Naval Base tower at Exmouth were responsible for the ADIRU fault. All parties involved claimed it was impossible, but then another Qantas Airbus developed a similar fault when passing Exmouth, so that certainly weakens all the arguments that interference wasn't possible. The problem is, the U.S. Navy is extremely secretive about their VLF transmissions from Exmouth, which are designed specifically to communicate with U.S. subs at great depths and great distances. The power generation level at the Exmouth base is huge, and I'd have to opine the AIrbus designers didn't include massive EMF burst shielding for the ADIRU units in their design, they rely on backups. You would never know if the Americans were experimenting with different VLF frequencies, power levels, or what they were trying out - military experiments are often at the edge of technology. Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

At least the doors didn't fall off when it dropped suddenly. Re the lack of seatbelts - there's always going to be a number of people moving around the cabin at any one time - going to and from toilets, cabin crew serving food, and even people just standing up to get an item (or place an item) in an overhead locker. So you can't have everyone secured all the time in cruise. Yes, there are those who whip their seatbelts off as soon as the seatbelt sign goes off, though - and they never put them back on until landing. I have always been a seatbelt wearer all the time I'm seated, when flying commercially - because I know that one day, all the smooth rides I've enjoyed up to now, will be joined by one ride from hell.

That's interesting, Spacey. I'm sure when I first put the link up, the "unreserved" message wasn't there, and I'm sure they've only just put it up recently. That means it will sell at this auction. The last half hour before auction closing time, usually sees bidding activity pick up substantially.

That's exactly what I was thinking Marty, that's a cheap 912 if nothing else. However, as the auction isn't marked as "unreserved", then the machine almost certainly has a reserve price on it, which would be considerably higher than the current level of bidding.

I don't know if anyone is interested, but there's a 2008 Airborne XT-912 Tundra Microlight up for auction at Smith Broughton auctions, Midland, W.A. The auction ends midday tomorrow (12/03/24). I didn't see this machine until this morning, although the auction started mid last week. It's powered by an 80HP Rotax 912 and has done a reported 151 hrs. It is unregistered and appears to have been unregistered for some time. It appears to be very complete with all the books and manuals included. Smith Broughton Online Auction OA.SBAUCTION.COM.AU

And a plane spotter who was photographing planes landing at Shellharbour, just happened to catch all the action, and is a star eyewitness. He told ABC News he watched as the Stearmans tail came right up and over, halfway along the runway. He's indicated it wasn't a ground loop, and he said it looked like excessive braking. Boeing Stearman model 75 vintage plane crashes while landing at Shellharbour Airport - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU A man and woman in their 50s have avoided serious injury after the 1940s plane they were flying overturned at Shellharbour Airport in NSW.

Remember the old computer operation basics - GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out. And the supplier of the computer system was also the lowest tenderer, thus guaranteeing a lot of shortcuts.

.....I'm too busy prawning and keeping tourists occupied, to bother with your problems! Why don't you just depart that bitterly cold, overpopulated and rainy State, and come up to Sunny Queensland and join me on my prawn trawler! I'm looking for good deckies, and with your skills at handling rough crowds, I reckon you could...........

How else does a tail-dragger flip on its back, in line with the centreline of the runway, except for excessive braking? New owner, still learning how to fly it, only bought it this year, and only just registered it. If it had ground looped and flipped, I wouldn't expect it to end up in line with the runway - and I saw no tyre skidmarks that would indicate a ground loop.

I can see use for the devices in SAR in rugged terrain. They might even be able to find the wreckage of VH-MDX with one, now THAT would make for some great news!

......tiny plastic dolphins made in Turbines China factories using AI stolen from the Americans, with the dolphins able to interact with children by eyeballing them, and talking to them in a cute Dolphin-squeak voice. The product was a massive hit, and the outlets were struggling to keep up. The Turbine talking, eyeballing, AI Dolphin product made Coles Little Shop miniatures look positively tame in the collector stakes, and wasn't long before people were being stalked and robbed at gunpoint for their Turbo Tiny Dolphins. At this point, the new commander of VicPol, Chief Commissioner Doubtfire, held a press conference to address community fears over the impact the Turbine product was having on their formerly safe and civil society. Doubtfire started her speech with, "We need to reassure the public that.........

It's extremely fortunate he didn't start a fire in that long dry grass! He even managed to miss all the powerlines! Great work! https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=920997750025755&set=pcb.920999593358904

The military value is pretty limited when you've got no armaments - but the baddies have missiles, rockets, heavy machine guns, RPG's, and big guns galore! I'll only take one when they have the Mark VII version, with the death ray laser gun!

Sorry, I have to disagree with this opinion. Technology is all about using correct, accurate technical descriptions for devices (or parts and components) to eliminate errors and confusion. A solenoid converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, converting electrical power into linear motion. A relay transfers current by allowing a low current circuit to control one or more higher current circuits. There is a major difference between the two devices, and it's not "nit-picking words". Many devices gain "common names" which are not correct technical names, and it may be O.K. to use these in casual face-to-face discussions where "local terminology" is understood - but correct technical naming must always be used in manufacturer references, written instructions and technical papers. Every manufacturer with a professional approach insists on this, and I have sighted and read numerous publications from companies that identify devices and parts by their correct names, and those publications insist that everyone use those correct names.

At least it wasn't identified as a Cessna!

.....6:30PM, commencing with Whitebait fritters for entrees". Bull made sure the brochures were sprinkled with words such as "choice, eh?", "cuzzy bro", "chur", "chocka", "munted" and "chully bin", just to make sure the Kiwis didn't feel left out of the deals. With days, thousands of bookings from Kiwiland flooded in, as Kiwis sought to escape their boring mundane lives, that largely featured crap weather, freezing cold, constant earthquakes, and regular bad news of more criminal Kiwis being deported from Australia. North Queensland never looked so good to them - and as his bank account filled up, Bulls grin got even wider than the grin he got, when he caught the biggest.........

.....barnstorming in a turbocharged Drifter (long overdue avref, thanks to Bull re-routing the NES to nautical tales), if he wanted to become a fully qualified baitlayer. So, Cappy set off on a search for.........

This reminds me of November 1942, when 17 new Kittyhawks arrived at Brisbane, and were then assembled and flown to Darwin with apparently inadequate checks for assembly faults. Upon arrival at Cloncurry for refuelling, one pilot was quizzed by the refuelling corporal, as to his destination. "Darwin" was the pilots reply. "You won't have any trouble finding your way to Darwin. Just follow the trail of crashed Kittyhawks, you can't go wrong", was the famous answer from the corporal. Nowadays, all we have to do, is follow the trail of crashed Boeings .....

.......and they had to find their way back to spiritual cleanliness again. Ahmed, who was the mosque Muezzin, decided he'd install signs telling people to wash their hands more often. He wangled a great deal in surplus COVID-19 signage, but the problem was, there weren't enough of the signs in multiple languages. As result, he called on Turbo to request his help, as he knew there was a Turbine Languages division, within the Turbine Conglomerate of global operations. Turbo said, "Ahmed, I can do a great deal for you. It involves a little bit of running through Gaza tunnels, but I'm sure you'll be up to it! All you have to do is.........

The oil specifications in Reynards list is a basic ASTM oil specification list. It does not list specialist additives, which can vary from oil manufacturer to oil manufacturer. Lube oils are produced to basic ASTM specifications by the few oil refineries owned by the big oil companies, and then specialised additive packages are added by companies who engage in oil retailing. I used Golden Fleece oil in my fleet of earthmovers, construction equipment, trucks, road vehicles and plant items for over 20 years. GF produced very good quality oil - but it was made for GF by Caltex, because Golden Fleece never owned a refinery! But GF obviously selected the additive package, and I proved the superior performance of GF oils time and time again, after viewing and inspecting engines during strip downs. In the "old days", oils varied substantially because the oil companies sourced crude from their selected source, or sources, and that crude came with a huge variety of undesirable ingredients. Not a lot of people know that a percentage of sand is included in most crude! The refinery does its best to refine the crude to meet specifications, but often there are still a few undesirable chemicals in the final product. So the oil companies blend crudes from various sources, to reduce the impact of the undesirable residual chemicals. Then came catalytic cracking, a big improvement over thermal cracking. New refineries could produce pure base oils from lower grades of crude oil, free of chemical impurities. This is where the "synthetic" oils come from - the base oil from catalytic cracking is purer, more stable, less inclined to break down under heat and load, and less likely to acidify and oxidise. The additive packages are trade secrets, and you'll struggle to find out anything about what the oil lab chemists are actually putting in the oil by way of additives. And the companies constantly find new additives, with vastly improved properties over older additives - so they can change from year to year. If an engine manufacturing company advise you their branded oil is designed for their engine/s, you may pay a little more for it, but it removes any argument from engine failure claims, if you do use it.

Sorry, I only just realised I put "difference", when it should've been "distance". The time for editing elapsed before I picked it up.

.......go back to the Mosque with a 44 of 5 day old prawns and dump them on the steps, and tell the worshippers that Allah had now deemed the Mosque unclean, and they now had to...........

There's some major deficiency in proof-reading in the line above.

Any decent car hire operator will arrange to deliver your hired car to your location, if it's not an unreasonable difference. I even had one car hire operator arrange with an employee to re-open his business after hours at no cost, when I arrived late, and they had shut for the day.

The information I posted came directly from a CASA webpage, it is publically available information. To rage about "placing the name of a deceased person" on a website smacks of some kind of superstition. Deceased persons names are on this website every week. The pilots name is public knowledge, and all close relatives of the deceased would be notified by now. If you want to rage at anyone, rage at CASA for supplying incorrect public records. There are always discussions held about aircraft crashes, to try and determine what went wrong. To try and shut down crash discussions simply because you're grieving for a family member or friend who is deceased as a result of any crash, is not a sustainable position. I guess you also want to shut down CH7 and CH9 for reporting the crash, and showing video of the pilot being transported by emergency services? Posters in the thread have expressed their sadness about the crash, and the loss of a fellow pilot. If just one inexperienced pilot learns something from the discussion, the discussion is worth it.