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......round in circles with one leg in, and one leg out. However, one has to note, that thanks to some unseen forces, Barnaby Joyce managed to keep his pants on this time, despite being horizontal - which is more than can be said for his time spent in his office with his favourite staffer. The Libs have currently launched a major internal investigation into these previously unknown and unseen forces that kept Barnabys pants up - with whisperings in Parliamentary Liberal offices that if these forces could be harnessed specifically for Liberal Party use, and their use denied to other political parties, the ramifications would be that Labor politicians could be seen without their pants on, on a scale previously unimaginable, while no Liberal would ever be seen pantless in public again. Peter Dutton was ecstatic, this was the secret weapon he needed to take back the...........

There was an error in the press release. It was supposed to read like this....... Continuing its focus on profit over safety regardless of manufacturing issues, and dismissing whistleblowers as disaffected and disgruntled employees, Boeing today announced it has acquired OzRunways. With this acquisition, OzRunways becomes part of the ForeFlight family, and will now fully concentrate on its major company priority - a 35% ROI.

No. The only information is that the pilot was 47 yrs old.

Electrolyte-containing drinks are designed to address a major imbalance in electrolytes in the body caused by dehydration. If you're not dehydrated, you have no need for electrolyte drinks. An excess of electrolytes in the body can be worse than being dehydrated.

What has happened to Rollo McKinleys Aeropup manufacturing operations? Have they ceased for good? I sighted a news article in a Gympie media publication (behind a paywall) from Oct 2023, indicating that the McKinleys had been involved in a lease dispute on their Aeropup manufacturing facility at Kybong. I believe there has been a long running dispute over ever-increasing council rents for Kybong aerodrome and land, with lessees complaining they're getting nothing from the local council for the massive rents imposed on them. Council shoots down aircraft business GYMPIETODAY.COM.AU Gympie Regional Council has shot down an export aircraft manufacturing business at Kybong aerodrome, after a lease dispute with the [...]

Ian, the membership contribution is something I think I've forgotten to pay for this year - yet I can't find any section where payment can be made, or whether one is up-to-date on contributions?

You only become a first class member by financially contributing to the running of the site.

The scene is declared a crime scene to ensure no evidence is disturbed until an official police investigation is complete. Police are eternally suspicious, and need to be satisfied that every serious event, from fires to death, do not have indications of foul play. If you've ever had a house fire, you'll know that police immediately investigate and interview you, and declare it a crime scene until they're satisfied they've found the exact cause of the fire, and there are no reasons to suspect a crime has been committed. Probably about every third house fire is arson of some type. Angry tenants, love triangles, criminality involving setting fires to cover up robbery or other crimes, financial reward from insurance, the list is substantial. Someone may have had it in for the pilot and sabotaged the aircraft, this has to be checked out thoroughly, the police question the pilots closest relatives to dig up problems that raise warning flags. It is part of police pyschology to advertise that a major event is a crime scene, this makes potential crime planners think twice about carrying out cunning crimes.

If you allow an endless period for continuing to modify posts, it makes threads turn into unreadable stuff-ups and makes following posts illogical. It's far better to have a 20 minute window to correct spelling errors and links, and to make sure you proof read before you post. 98% of forums operate this way.

I use Plastic Fusion, they claim to be the original super glue. This stuff is made in the U.S., and is a two-pack epoxy, and it has high strength and is extremely durable. https://www.gluesaustralia.com.au/the-original-super-glue-10-minute-fast-setting-pla However Plastic Fusion won't glue Polypropylene or Polyurethane or ABS resins, the "hard to glue" plastics. For PP, PU and ABS, I use JB Weld "Plastic Bonder". This stuff is also a 2-pack epoxy, and it's the greatest adhesive I've come across for these difficult-to-bond materials. https://www.jbweld.com/product/j-b-plastic-bonder-syringe

Link to the ABC article below; https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-11/paraglider-crash-victoria-colac-west/103453210

I'm only 3 months away from my 75th birthday and I consider myself still pretty fit for my age. However, I injured my left shoulder in Sept 2022 (incurring an inflamed bursar, by skylarking and not acting my age - I dived left-shoulder first onto what I thought was going to be a soft landing, and unfortunately I landed on hard ground - lesson learnt). As a result of visiting my local surgical practice, the first doc (a Chinese woman) picked up my BP was 200/100. She went ballistic, exclaiming I was at immediate risk of dropping dead or having a major stroke. I explained that maybe some of the reasons behind the high BP was, (a) I was in screaming agony from the damaged shoulder, and didn't have any idea of what damage I'd done to it - (b) I'd lost about 3 nights sleep due to excruciating pain, and (c) I was in a doctors surgery, a well-known reason for increased BP. I had previously never had any reason to worry about my BP, although I knew it had been slowly increasing over recent years - but was still within the right range for my age. However, I hadn't had a BP check for about 4 years prior to the shoulder injury, largely thanks to COVID restrictions. This woman doctor virtually refused to listen to me, and put me on an enzyme blocker (ACE inhibitor), which apparently soften arteries and veins. Somewhat surprisingly to me, they work, and they have no side effects that I've noticed. In the meantimes, after some ultrasounds that determined the shoulder damage was largely torn ligaments and soft tissue damage, plus the inflamed bursar, I got a steroid injection into the bursar which reduced the pain and the shoulder healed quite well after about 6 mths. I couldn't take the woman doctors rather abrasive attitude, so in early 2023, I moved to another male Australian doctor in the same surgery, for ongoing treatment and check-ups. This bloke was a fitness merchant, he was 56, in fine-looking shape - although he had a nasty-looking arterial bulge in his temple that I regularly felt like raising a discussion with him about it - but I didn't. An arterial bulge like that on my body, would have made me greatly concerned - but I guessed, as a doc, he knew all about it, and any potential problems associated with it (likelihood of other arterial problems), so I never brought it up. But just 3 mths after I started seeing him, and with another appointment scheduled for one morning last May, I was all set to leave home, when I received an SMS from the surgery. It went "Dear Mr OT - we have to advise you that your appt with Dr X this morning will have to be cancelled, as we have just received information that he has passed away early this morning". It turned out that this bloke had gone for his daily early morning jog around a large local park, and had dropped dead on the spot (at age 56), with passers-by unable to revive him. Maybe I should've raised the subject of that nasty arterial bulge on his temple with him! Incidentally, my BP at my check-up yesterday was 136/74, pretty normal for people my age, apparently.

Maybe the designers of the ASML Aero machine, also have plans for a high-tech, cheap ejection seat, for their product?

Micus - There's enormous environmental pressure on authorities and Govts to remove 2 stroke engines from general use, thanks to their polluting exhaust emissions profile. BRP ceasing manufacturing 2 stroke Evinrude outboards in 2020. Other 2 stroke engine manufacturers have been reducing their 2 stroke engine emissions by adopting the likes of direct injection. Carburettor 2 stroke production globally, is tailing off very rapidly, as pressure to reduce emissions, bites in every area of engine use. I found this reference (below) online that may be useful to you, so I would suggest you contact Transport Canada or the ECCC or your EPA to find out how long you've got left, to purchase and use 2 stroke engines. It will only be a few years. In December, your Environment Minister released the Canadian EPA plan whereby production and importation of gasoline engines in vehicles into Canada, is projected to cease in 2035. That initially sounds like a long time away, but it's only 11 years. "Authority to regulate emissions from internal combustion engines in Canada rests with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Transport Canada. Under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999 (CEPA 1999), Environment Canada has the authority to regulate emissions from on-road engines, as well as from most categories of off-road engines. Authority to regulate emissions from aircraft, railway locomotives and commercial marine vessels remains with Transport Canada. Regulations have been adopted to control emissions of criteria air contaminants (CAC) as well as greenhouse gases (GHG)."

You're entitled to see all your medical history and doctors opinions, as well as all your blood test results. A lot of people fail to ask for this information, but a lot of docs treat it as a secret they have to keep.

........his only character flaw is a seething hatred of bunnies, with the very sight of cottontails turning him from a mild-mannered aerobatic jock, into a red-necked, foamy-mouthed aviation terror, straight out of the finest Quentin Tarantino movie, dealing sudden death with explosive ordnance onto any naive and unsuspecting........

It's a dinosaur. 2 strokes are being outlawed everywhere, and many manufacturers are ceasing production of them, so if you buy a Simonini 2 stroke, you may find it will either be illegal to import it, or it will have restrictions placed on its use in the near future. At the very best, you may find that you'll be purchasing amongst the last of the Simonini 2 stroke line, and when you go to get parts for it, you'll find you're the owner of an obsolete orphan.

Well, the extract below shows up the precise problem associated with the event - a disconnect between docs feeding new medications to patients without being cluey enough to ask what types of driving, machinery operating, or flying were likely to be done by the patient. A cluey doc would ensure that anyone given these drugs would have major restrictions placed on the patients driving, machinery operating, and flying activities. Many drugs administered come with warnings about how they may affect your skills in all those afore-mentioned areas, and at the very least, the doc should have notified the aviation authorities. "Toxicology testing performed by the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Forensic Sciences laboratory detected amlodipine and propafenone in the pilot’s heart blood and liver tissue. Propafenone is used to treat life-threatening irregular heartbeats; the medication itself can cause a new irregular heartbeat and increase the risk of death. The use of propafenone would require FAA review and approval."

.......and making the resident rabbits flee in horror - because they all know, that at the sight of any ultralight, it's liable to be bristling with armaments that are going to rain death down on them, worse than any Luftwaffe Junkers over London in 1942 - and of all the ultralights, the one they fear the most is the one from Darraweit Guim, which is.......

Phil, how long is it going to take, to get one from Jabiru?

.....into a big pile of shrubbery (the only shrubbery of that height in the entire country) and this broke their fall admirably. The whole group walked out of the shrubbery to confront the Ferris Wheel operator - who upon sighting them, thought they were ghosts and fled, screaming in fear and crying out for supplication from Allah. At that point, Turbo realised he could now take over the ownership and operation of the Ferris Wheel, and add another useful business to his Afghan portfolio. However, he now needed another Ferris Wheel operator, as he was too busy himself, what with dealing with Taliban negotiators, organising to free his numerous friends from jail, and arranging multiple bribes to governors, public servants, police, and border guards. There was a need to find an operator urgently, as the Ferris Wheel queue was growing rapidly (mostly because a large number of assembled Afghans thought a ride on it, was a way out the country), so Turbo looked around and spotted........

......aching muscles to ensure they totally relaxed - and this unusual technique and odd use of Castrol R, brought forth a substantial number of inquiries, especially from the large and imposing........

I'd be scared of that thing starting to hop!!

Matt Wrights problems compounded today when NT WorkSafe laid additional charges (in addition to the current Police charges) relating to unsafe work practices in his helicopter operations, that are related to the death of Chris Wilson. From the news article; “NT WorkSafe has charged commercial helicopter company Helibrook Pty Ltd and company director Mr Matthew Nicholas Wright, with breaches of the Northern Territory’s work health and safety laws over their failures to maintain safe aircraft and allowing the aircraft to be operated when unsafe,” a spokesperson said. “While the exact cause of the helicopter crash has not been determined by any regulatory agency, and there is insufficient evidence to establish a prima facie case to lay charges in relation to the crash at this point in time, NT WorkSafe’s investigation has found sufficient evidence to allege Helibrook Pty Ltd and Mr Wright engaged in conduct intended to falsify the actual number of flight hours accrued by the aircraft in the Helibrook fleet, over an extended period of time.” NT WorkSafe said this included interfering with the Hobbs Meters, which records the time an aircraft is in use, and not accurately recording flight times in the aircraft’s maintenance release, which is a key document to the safe operation of an aircraft. https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/court-justice/outback-wrangler-star-matt-wright-charged-with-reckless-conduct-over-crash-that-killed-co-star-chris-wilson-c-13513208