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Dave, the alternator specs are in the link below; SD8 Alternator, 8 Amps (Homebuilt) - B&C Specialty Products BANDC.COM The spline-driven SD8 alternator offers the benefits of an exceptionally lightweight alternator, and a design with proven durability in the rugged world of aerobatic aircraft. Weighing just 2.9 lbs., with a rated output...

The primary factor involved, is whether any medication affects brain function, and in what manner. There's a substantial number of medications that affect your driving/operating/piloting skills - and this information is readily available from the drug manufacturers, and the medical profession. However, just in my personal opinion, I believe a lot of drug manufacturers, and even medical professionals often downplay the full effect of medications. I know I've taken medications that adversely affected my skills and decision-making, and I wasn't advised fully on all the side-effects. I would hazard a guess this is because everyone is affected a little differently by various medications. From what little I've read about ADHD medications, they're touted as a gift from God, with amazing results, and little side effects. I'd have a more reserved opinion on that angle, purely because of the power of drug manufacturers, and how they can influence even medical professionals. I was under the impression that the main drugs used to treat ADHD are all from the amphetamine family. These drugs are commonly nicknamed "speed" drugs, simply because they stimulate brain function. In the case of ADHD, it appears the amphetamine drugs operate on brain function in a highly beneficial manner - unlike the illegal methamphetamine drugs. Naturally, the legal drugs are produced to a medical standard with proper QC, unlike the illegal ones. However, the bottom line with amphetamines is, they are addictive - and the other question also remains, with regard to someone needing to take a legal prescription of amphetamine, is - what happens when they're piloting, and they forget to take their medication? I believe the situation as regards someone piloting with a need to medicate, to function effectively, is a question that needs to be addressed on a simple case-by-case basis, with extensive medical professional input, and not a "one case fits all" scenario. Just my .02c worth.

The very first Douglas DST, and the first Douglas aircraft with sleeper berths. But it wasn't the first aircraft with sleeper berths, that claim to fame goes to the Curtiss Condor (in 1932).

I don't think there's any sniggering needed if someone has studied up and learnt to fly, and has passed the tests to acquire a licence, it's something to be proud of, and I for one would not be sniggering at anyone wearing a set of wings that has been earned, I'd respect their effort and achievement. But if someone was wearing a set of wings that hasn't been earned, and they were just trying to impress - well, there's a name for that character deficiency.

The predictable result of many years of a highly complacent attitude, and poor procedures developing, without anyone picking up on his bad habits increasing.

The Chinese will knock up anything you want - the only problem being, they will want you to order a minimum of 10,000 badges at a time! Stunning pilot wings pin badge for Decor and Souvenirs - Alibaba.com WWW.ALIBABA.COM Alibaba.com offers a vast selection of fashion-toward pilot wings pin badge to accentuate plain outfits. Put a spin to any outfit by ordering pilot wings pin badge with messages to put out there.

.....only a little earlier than the Turbine Industries Great Defence Procurement scandal, whereby used missiles from the various Middle East conflicts were gathered up and reconditioned, and sold to AUKUS as new missiles. Turbo was actually sighted at the recent Land Forces International Land Defence Expo, held at the Melbourne Convention Centre, spruiking the huge advantages in purchasing his low-cost, fully recycled missiles, which came with a slew of Green credentials. Turbo became quite animated when he went into high levels of boasting about his companys missiles features. "They're fully tested, as shown by the fact they've been successfully used, which indicates they work!" he said. "I guess many of you would know, that missiles that fail to go off when they reach their target, are a major problem! We've solved that problem by re-using missiles that were proven to go off!" Despite the regular murmurs of a suspected scandal coming from various other Defence suppliers, the scandal wasn't actually fully uncovered until the missiles were provided to the Ukrainians, whereby it was found, that......

Can't the North Koreans supply something suitable? They seem to have a great homespun industry, providing medals, wings, and other glittery adornments, all designed to impress!

Hi Dave - The meters are new, the discolouration is because there's a protective plastic strip stuck to the face of the meter. Where are you located? I'll give you a call tomorrow, because it's a little late in the evening right now. Cheers, Ron.

How did they ever get a fake window through the certification process?? Surely, it must be an unauthorised modification?

The road toll dropped sharply during the pandemic, due to restrictions on peoples movement. A substantially reduced level of driving and moving around by road, resulted in an abnormally low road toll. Somewhat surprisingly, and in a reinforcement of official policy - although there were a lesser number of crashes, the level of crashes resulting in substantial major injuries, increased. This has been attributed to drivers speeding more, because there was less traffic on the roads! Higher impact speeds in crashes = increased level of major injuries. An overview of the impact of COVID-19 on road traffic safety and travel behavior - ScienceDirect WWW.SCIENCEDIRECT.COM The COVID-19 epidemic caused global roads and highway networks to be disrupted to historic proportions. While the world is focused on combating COVID-…

Red, there's a somewhat surprising range of materials used in pitot-static lines, and I wouldn't be sure that purely electric/electronic arrangements are used in modern pressurised airliners, there would have to be physical line connections as part of fail-safe systems. Pitot-Static Systems WWW.AVIATIONPROS.COM Pitot-Static Systems Basic for flight By Jim Sparks March 2000 Air is one of the basics needed to support life. In fact for most of us, it is also the basis for our profession...

.....uncover more of Cappys failings and cover-ups, to make Turbo's transgressions and elaborate fabrications look a lot less deceiving. He railed against Cappy and his pointing out of the unrifled bullet; "How many people know about the time you took off (long-overdue avref) with the logbook sitting on the wing, and you had to land again and try to find it, without anyone seeing you?" Cappy went pale. He wasn't aware that anyone, let alone Turbo, had known about his little mistake. Anyone can make mistakes, but letting Turbo find out about them, was.............

One has to agree that Skippys belief in the concentration on speeding offences is the wrong and regular response to an increasing road toll, and amounts to a failure - simply because the road toll has increased sharply since 2020. The 2023 road toll was the worst for years, and 2024 is well on the way to being the worst road toll in decades. Speeding is only one part of the equation, and what the authorities conveniently ignore is that speed alone doesn't kill - it's speed coupled with driving inexperience, a lack of competent driving skills, negligence, and just plain carelessness. I would opine the last factor is a big factor in many smashes, the number of vehicles that run off perfectly good roads into roadside trees, indicates major carelessness and negligence in driving attitudes.

.......more strident and insistent, as regards the truth behind the 7.62mm bullet with no rifling marks! Turbo stayed silent as the furore increased, and more and more stories came out, about how he'd found a stray un-expended 7.62 mm bullet near the firing range at Kapooka, when he'd been up visiting Cappy, and he'd carefully removed the bullet and fabricated the whole story about his limp, and the Pashtun bullet reportedly extracted from his hip. Of course, Cappy drove the furore by feeding the journos titbits about Turbo's constant character flaws, and the fantasy land he lives in. "We all know AK-47's and M60's weren't around in the 1880's!" exclaimed Cappy - "so who's going to end up with egg on their face?" "You are!", retorted Turbo, when he finally broke his silence. "Your talk about the 1880's Khyber Pass stoush, was the story of my grandfather! I was there again in the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, and I taught the Russians all they know about fighting tactics!" "So ... that'd be the reason they lost the war with the Afghans?", sneered Cappy. Turbo blanched. This was one insult too much, and it'd be the last time he gave Cappy any bottles of gin for his birthday, because he'd finally.........

There's no argument that both ends of the age spectrum show statistics that indicate an increased level of crashes by both groups. In the young people, the reasons are impulsiveness, risk-taking, lack of experience, and inadequate control skills (related to the foregoing). In older drivers, the reasons are age-related cognitive decline, slower reflexes, age-related health conditions, and (the very worst part) - a substantial long-term decline in driving skills, caused by bad driving habits that are not addressed. Things such as driving through stop signs on a regular basis, rather than stopping, and looking as required. Failure to keep up a consistent level of alertness, as in looking for vehicles, in a regular pattern, when pulling out into conflicting traffic. How many of you have had an aged driver pull out directly in front of you, without looking, or with a casual glance that does not register your vehicle is there? I get it regularly, but I make allowance for older drivers. Then I get someone in their 40's or 50's who does the exact same thing! - showing a decline in driving skills and habits, that is already creeping in, and not being addressed. I nearly cleaned up a medical professional in his 50's in his big new Mercedes on Thursday, when he pulled out straight in front of me, without even a glance in my direction! He made things even worse by pulling into my lane, without indicating or looking (because the kerbside lane was full of parked cars) - leaving me nowhere to go, but up onto the centre median strip under extremely heavy braking! Yes, I should've been going slower, and allowing for him doing something stupid - but he sprang straight out of the side street, on my left, from in front of a truck turning left, so I couldn't see him until it was far too late. This decline in keeping up strict driving habits starts after about 15 or 20 years of driving, and continues to get worse, unless it's addressed with corrective instruction, and effort on the part of the driver. We've all seen how taxi-drivers skills decline through bad habits, and long years behind the wheel, and you don't have to have aged taxi drivers, to encounter it.

It looks awfully like the designers of the GAF Boomerang saw this prototype, and got a lot of ideas from it!

Ian, let us know if you still hold the same opinion about ageing drivers capabilities, when you get to 80! 🙂

......Turbo kicking out at an exceptionally large mosquito that was attempting to carry him away, and as result, he lost his balance and slipped, and landed heavily on his left hip, a painful fall, that he's never completely recovered from. But of course, Turbo blames his limp on the big stoush on the Khyber, when he took command, after their gun pit was under threat of being overrun by 1000 screaming, mad Pashtun - all of them crying for "infidel blood" - and whereby Turbo claims he coolly reloaded the M60 with an extra-long belt, and proceeded to dispatch possibly more than a third of the attacking Pashtuns. Naturally, Turbo always claims a stray 7.62mm bullet from a Pashtun AK-47 during the gun pit siege, is the reason for his limp - and the reason he claims this, is because he doesn't want to bring up the story of the mosquito attacks, for fear of looking a little stupid. In fact, Turbo's kickout at the oversize mozzie, and his resultant comical fall, flat on his bum, was actually videoed by Cappy and uploaded to his YouTube channel - you know, the one titled, "idiot fails", and Turbos "fail" is the biggest laugh of the.........

Yes, he's just fine, he's on Social Australia. He had a run-in on this forum with another contributor who denigrated most of his postings, maths and conclusions - so OME removed himself from this forum, as the conflict was stressing him out. Interestingly, the other contributor left, and hasn't been seen in a long time, either. I think he just might have enjoyed baiting OME on a continuous basis. I've run into a similar individual on another forum - he was sneeringly arrogant, borderline abusive, denigratory, and just a general PIA. But he pi$$ed the wrong people off, and got banned from the forum. Unfortunately, the annoying one on that other forum was also extremely knowledgeable and accurate with his info - he was just an abrasive personality, who lacked comprehensive social skills.

......anal area - which in comparison to Turbo's inflammation of the same area, after being penetrated by multiple number of extremely large mosquitos (and I understand from reports of the time, that they were large enough to easily hold a man down, which would not be easy for a gentleman of Turbo's size) - is relatively minor - despite displaying a raw, reddened region. The limp that Turbo displays constantly today, is directly related to the multiple penetrations of those Khyber Pass mosquitoes, and just the mere whining sound of a nearby mosquito anytime, is enough to send Turbo in a fit of twitches and convulsions - movements which are often mistaken for........

IMO, I would suggest Richard stick to repairing engines, and avoid trying to become an immediate on-site air crash investigation specialist - and perhaps take up a professional writing course, so he can communicate with others in a precise and succinct manner - as RFguy has done so very well. I've seen some erratic forum ramblings in my time, but Richards postings take the cake.

.......sneeringly replied, "Footy"? You mean that aerial ping-pong game you Victorians claim to have a national hold on? We don't bother with those pathetic inflated-pigskin-bouncing sports you call your "National Game"! Over here on the Left Coast, we play games with real swords, and firearms, and explosives, and we don't have to sell tickets, the word of mouth news-spreading is enough to........

I hate to think about the level of unnecessary weight in the drivetrain to that prop.

Yep, Melb = 518mm annual rainfall, Perth - 731mm annual rainfall. The running joke is that Summer in Melbourne was on a Wednesday last year.