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.........the Turbo Bluebird took off like a JATO-assisted C-130 (overdue avref), surprising all the Commonwhore and Foolcon drivers. Naturally, the Bluebird was being driven by the Great Turbo himself, this is where he got his WreckFlyin name and reputation from. He wrecked many a Bluebird on the track before he decided trucking and flying was safer, where he went on to wreck many trucks, and many aircraft, in the same manner as he wrecked Bluebirds. Through it all, Turbo always stepped out of every wreck with barely a scratch, and this led to many believing this was all due to his relaxed attitude at the controls, greatly assisted by the effects of the Castrol R fumes, plus a generous dose of..............

The important thing with your health is to ensure you have regular medical checkups to establish patterns. Many people place great emphasis on regular servicing of their aircraft, cars and other machinery - but fail to establish regular checks on the machine that drives them. A good GP is all you need, see him/her every 3 to 5 years, and establish any pattern in increased blood pressure, cholesterol, and any other risk factors. Get regular blood tests done, this is the same as oil sampling, you establish the pattern of results, and watch for any increases in pertinent factors that provide warning of potential trouble. Ask plenty of questions about results, a lot of docs need to be prodded. Many people that keel over from cardio problems often show little outward signs of cardio problems, and regularly have no family history of cardio problems. It's not a bragging point to say you've never seen a doctor in 10 or 20 years.

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Flyboy1960, the load on the diesel loco engine driving the generator does alter substantially with increasing railway line gradients. Facthunter is correct, when full electrical draw is required from the generator, the diesel engine really loads up and starts barking. The power draw requirements of the traction motors is only modest on level ground, but it goes up massively on gradients with a loaded train. Get a listen to some of the locomotive videos on YooToob of the big locos pulling freight trains up long gradients in the U.S. with a full consist or rake, those big V16's are really barking. I used to work on a minesite in the mid-1970's where the mine winder was run by a 1000KVA genset run by a big 1600HP V16 Dorman engine. When the winder driver starting pulling up a full skip of ore, that big old V16 would pull down and bark under maximum load, like nothing I've heard before or since. When the skip stopped at the ore bin on the surface, you could hear the big Dorman ease off in load substantially. Generator output load can be huge, it will pull engines right down. I had a number of minesite camp generators, they were 15KVA single phase Dunlites powered by 3 cyl Ruston diesels. One day we got a dead short in the main power cable of one genset, and current fed back into the generator. The electrical short pulled that Ruston, running at 1500RPM, down to a dead stop, in about 3-4 seconds! I wouldn't have believed a shorted generator could provide such a massive braking effect, until I heard it with my own ears.

I would place competency behind the controls as a far higher priority than any medical. After all, how many aircraft have fallen out of the sky because the pilot died at the controls. Not exactly a statistically important figure. But a far bigger number of aircraft have fallen out of the sky simply because the pilot lacked competency in controlling the aircraft or in flight planning.

Heating will not significantly damage the integrity of the metal, exhaust systems often glow a dull red with high power outputs.

......then gravitated to Tasmania, and it seriously affected bulls thought patterns, typing ability, and proof reading abilities - and which gas made him even more incoherent than he normally was. Poor old bull had forgotten there were 835 pages of the NES, and he'd started off reading Page 1 all over again, thus leading the NES readers to start scratching their............

Make up a cardboard template for the curves you need, and go visit a good local exhaust fabrication business. Exhaust tubing must be mandrel bent, the exhaust tubing bending machines are dedicated machines for the job. Stainless steel is best for the application, but joins must be welded carefully with the correct electrode or wire. The stainless exhaust pipe is pretty thin.

I find it interesting that all the PL Insurance information is related to business activities. I have found nothing relating to individual, or simply recreational activities, that result in injury or damage to other parties. Every Insurance company site discusses your business operations, and nothing else. I wonder how many recreational fliers are running their aircraft as a business? I find most legal firms sites are all about acquiring adequate compensation for personal injuries, thus indicating that's where the real money is. They go for the insurance companies as they know they have the funds available. The bottom line is you have to indulge in negligent and grossly unsafe behaviour to be found responsible for others losses and injuries. That must be difficult to prove in many cases where innocent unintentional actions caused losses and injuries. https://publicliabilityinsurance.com.au/what-is-public-liability-insurance/

Most Google Earth aerial photos come from cameras mounted in commercial aircraft, but some photos also come from satellites. https://support.google.com/earth/answer/6327779?hl=en#zippy=%2Csatellite-aerial-images%2Chistorical-images

The Gypsy Moth is a DH60 Moth and was the first de Havilland Moth, it first appeared in 1925. The Tiger Moth is the DH82 Moth, it replaced the DH60, and it first flew in 1931. Geoffrey de Havilland built two DH71 Tiger Moths, but these were just prototypes, they were monoplanes, built to test new engines for de Havilland aircraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_DH.60_Moth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Tiger_Moth

C4 is not Ammonium Nitrate, and yes it does burn without exploding. C4 is a plastic explosive that is composed of RDX (Cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine) as the main explosive ingredient, along with a plasticizer and a binder. Ammonium Nitrate purchases, storage of it, and transport of same is highly controlled here and it is extremely unlikely the aircraft was carrying any of it. You need a permit to buy more than a small amount of Ammonium Nitrate, unless you can prove you have a specific approved need for it, such as agricultural use. In bulk amounts, it is classed as Dangerous Goods. Every State has Dangerous Goods (Security Risk Substances) legislation which oversees everything to do with products that can be explosive and which can be sought out by criminals and terrorists. The aircraft fire does seem to have been exacerbated by additional flammable or oxidising material. It will be interesting to see what comes out of the crash report. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-ammonium-nitrate-the-chemical-that-exploded-in-beirut/ https://www.police.wa.gov.au/Your-Safety/Counter-terrorism/Ammonium-nitrate-and-explosives#:~:text=Ammonium nitrate is commonly used,sought by terrorists and criminals.

I have always used an Insurance broker, because they're working for you, not the insurance company, and if they understand what you're doing (by way of risks)) and what you actually want by way of insurance, they can pick the company best suited to that particular insurance field. Some companies specialise in aviation public liability insurance, some won't even have a bar of it. If you get a company that is in the middle and don't understand aviation insurance risks, you'll get them asking a high insurance premium. We're having a similar discussion on an American forum, and virtually all the Americans operating light aircraft recreationally won't even bother with hull insurance, but they make sure they have PL - and it's not anywhere near as expensive in the U.S., as it is here, so it's pretty obvious insurance companies operating here, see Australian aviation as a ripe tree to be plucked.

You wouldn't find 45° slopes all that often in Australia, and why would you want to follow the ground contours precisely?

I'd have to opine the Israeli startup Air One is possibly closest to a fully operational, relatively simple and stable design, with their EVTOL. Their version utilises a simple wing - nothing on it folds, rotates or otherwise needs complex, troublesome mechanisms - and the wing provides stability in flight. The company is leveraging knowledge they have gained from making UAV's. They have a 60% scale working model, and it appears to be meeting all the necessary aims and projections. Their rig uses 8 electric motors with counter-rotating propellers, and it has inbuilt redundancy - if one motor fails, it lands itself. It holds 2 people and has a 250kg load capacity. The U.S. Air Force is currently doing testing of this EVTOL, and it appears that certification and regulatory controls is about all that's holding it back from production. https://www.airev.aero/

........glasses if he did this, which would be a disaster, as Nobu really needed those Coke-bottle glasses. Right about then, Onetrack strolled up and said, "You can get up without any worries Nobu, because that's one of our fake IED's that we make, to keep the enemy on their toes!" Nobu heaved a massive sigh of relief, and holding onto his precious glasses with one hand, he pushed himself upright with the other hand. However, as he stood up, he heard a scary sound. It went "RI-I-I-I-I-PPPP!!! .... and right about then, he felt a big portion of his posterior exposed to the cool air of the evening by the jagged barbs of the fence, and this brought on a cold sweat, as he knew that.........

Nev, the Honda GX390 is 390cc in it's original form, they bore them right out, and fit new steel cylinders, and then stroke them with a new crankshaft. So the engine goes from 390cc to 460cc. https://www.nrracing.com/searchresults.asp?Search=460cc&Submit=

Just more corporate greed in action. Good luck to them trying to enforce charges for entering "their" airspace, someone needs to tell them about the Airspace Act 2007.

Here's some pretty unique uses for choppers in the U.S. and Canada .... 1. Rice pollination, Danbury Texas. Apparently the rotor blast does the job much faster than bees. https://verticalmag.com/features/how-helicopters-give-rice-growers-a-helping-hand/ 2. Blowing excess water off cherries in Canada to prevent fruit rot; https://www.bccherry.com/helicopter/ 3. Picking Noble Fir pine cones with a neat harvesting cone dropped over the tree; https://www.weyerhaeuser.com/blog/sustainability-stories-noble-fir-cones/

There's an error in the caption, the aircraft in the foreground is a Hillson Praga, not a Hillston Praga. There were only ever 3 imported into Australia. They were a beaut, lightweight, sporty little machine - but unfortunately, none of them survived WW2. One was destroyed in a crash in 1943, and the other two were lost in fires in 1944 and 1945. https://aeropedia.com.au/content/hillson-praga/ Here's the newspaper story of the Hillson Praga that crashed. It was being flown by two Inspectors from the CAC, and they both climbed out of the wreckage relatively unscathed. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49545239

.......great glee amongst the many scrap dealers who had gathered to watch - because they all rushed out as one, and collected so much scrap steel and aluminium that was littering the countryside, that the local council issued an announcement that they had ordered an award plaque be given to the scrap metal merchants, for their "Keep Australia Clean" beautification efforts, and that they had raised the bar for all those who.........

Nev, at 40HP for 460cc, that's just under 87HP per litre. Still a lot of output for a little industrial engine. The single cylinder level of vibration would be my main concern, in such a lightweight airframe.

A GX390 Honda single-cylinder industrial engine, producing 40HP?? For how long?? They produce 13HP in their industrial form! You'd think they could've souped up a V-twin Honda GX690 at least - with twin cylinders and 688cc, there's better inherent balance, and more cubic capacity for upping the power output.

So ...... what's happened? We're into the second month of 2024 and I don't see these VTOL machines appearing everywhere as they claimed they would, in 2022 and 2023? Once again, the marketing hype exceeds the ability to deliver something that works. I'll wager they've all stalled at regulatory and safety hurdles.

........made a Commander, not a Commando, as he thought it was named, and this had led to huge confusion amongst the suppliers as to the correct ranking of the...........