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    Yes, my apologies, I meant to write "Allied" instead of "American", but I was distracted when I wrote that line up and was concentrating on other things. According to the site below, though, the U.S. Merchant Marine suffered the worst losses of all the civilian shipping losses during WW2 - 733 ships over 1000 tons lost, and 1,554 ships in total. Many U.S. ships were either reflagged or sailed under flags of countries that were U.S. possessions - such as the Phillipines and Panama. The Panama Canal was under U.S. possession during WW2. U.S. Merchant Ships Sunk or Damaged in World War II WWW.USMM.ORG American Merchant Marine Ships Sunk or Damaged During World War II
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    Good thing he had plenty of power available!!
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    It doesn't take much contemplation to see why the design didn't proceed. Not a lot of money to be made from an aircraft that size, that only carries 6 pax.
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    They were very lucky to survive in that heavy timber. Link to ABC report .... Pair freed from wreckage after light plane crashes east of Gympie - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Two Sunshine Coast men were treated at the scene before being taken to hospital after their aircraft came down in a rural area at Coondoo just before 11.30am.
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    Genuine Honda parts - "Made in China"! It must feel good, relying 100% on staying airborne, using the finest Chinese-manufactured components!? 😮
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    .......rights to fly highly modified kit-built aircraft away from us, and only allow professionally-built factory aircraft to fly. This, of course, will lead to a vast underground movement of illegal kit-built aircraft, flying at odd hours, with unregistered pilots - and outlaws will rule the sky!! And amongst the biggest of the rebellious aerial outlaws, will be the one known far and wide as, "bull of the tasmanian backwoods", whose daring disobeyance of Govt rules and regulations pertaining to flying will become the stuff of Legend, as he thumbs his nose at all type of Govt controls and regulation, and he'll carry firearms with him to back up his rebel stance. As part of his new modus operandi, bull will have a large decal applied to his illegally-built and illegally-flown aircraft, with the words "Don't Step On Me!" emblazoned in 36 point Sans Serif, with the Brotherhood message screaming "Danger", to any Govt official who dares to........
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    What an amazing shot, and being able to find an aircraft tug still in position. I'd have to opine it was chained down or held in place with steel wire rope. I'd like to see photos of all the new items of machinery and aircraft that went down in the Atlantic between 1941 and 1944, thanks to the German U-boats. America lost 3,500 ships to the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic, and most were Merchant Marine ships, and poorly armed or completely unarmed. They were nearly all full of new equipment for the British and Soviet militaries - aircraft, trucks, jeeps, tractors, Caterpillar dozers and graders, and other earthmovers. New portable gensets, new engines, new tyres, new construction materials, and a thousand other items needed to support the War effort. Battle of the Atlantic - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
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    I fail to understand why anyone would want a dark-coloured aircraft, car, or house in our generally hot climate. Sitting on the tarmac on any day over 25°C in a light aircraft with minimal ventilation, and you soon start to feel like you're in an oven. Dark colours increase internal heating by a sizable amount. Red is about the worst colour of all, for heating up.
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    Plenty of Boeings have gone into the ocean, or terrain, stalled. 90% of aircraft crashes are pilot error, says the crash statistics. I think you need to troll elsewhere. How about bringing up a story about regular Russian pilot incompetence, or Tupolev unreliability?
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    .....a bunch of undisciplined rabble (a great term that my old Sgt. taught me .... with frequent use, I might add) - who could not, and would not, follow instructions, regularly failed to salute Turbo (many claimed it was because they didn't recognise him - getting a Dragon tattoo will do terrible things to your appearance) - wouldn't keep their weapons clean, regularly called their rifle "a gun" (remember the old Army saying, as you were told to hold onto your rifle in one hand, and your privates in the other? - "this is my rifle, this is my gun! - this one's for shooting, this one's for fun"). It wasn't much fun for Turbo trying to beat some AUF rabble into a disciplined fighting force, but after 6 mths of hard slog, Turbo was starting to see some results - apart from the.........
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    .......coming up to him and saying, "Are you the one they talk about, that has one dragging on the ground?" And Turbo would say, "No, sorry, I only have one Dragon on my back" - and at that, he would take his shirt off, to show his superb Dragon tattoo - which was impressive, for sure, but not anywhere near as impressive as one dragging on the ground. The ladies would usually look disappointed, and depart - which made Turbo puzzled, because he was always convinced that having a Dragon tattoo was a sure-fire chick-magnet. This got Turbo to thinking. If the Dragon tattoo wasn't going to work as well as he was originally advised, then maybe he could improve his chances with a red Corvette. Accordingly, he went looking for......
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    Not necessarily. Yes, the pilots body wasn't recovered from this accident, which is sad. However, at the relatively low airspeed he was at (as compared to a combat crash), the pilot could've survived initial impact, but drowned because he was knocked unconscious, or because he couldn't escape the cockpit fast enough, before the aircraft went under water. This is why underwater escape training has become an important field in recent decades. https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/histories/naval-aviation/Naval Aviation News/1990/1997/november-december/vapor.pdf
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    Don't ya just hate it, when that happens?? 😄
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    .....initiating the highly-sought-after Big Ghoolies Award medal, handed out for acts of heroism, bravery, endurance, and impressive feats. Every year, on Boxing Day, people flocked to Ghooli to assemble and find out if they had qualified for a Big Ghoolies Award medal - and as only one BGAM was handed out each year by Wendal, it meant that many came away disappointed, as there could be only one recipient every year. Of course, Turbo rocked up to the awards ceremony on Boxing Day 2023, to see if he had qualified for a BGAM, due to his impressive feat of developing........
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    Starter rotation is always determined by looking at the starter from the nose end. Starter rotation is governed by the starter mounting, which means the starter nose is either pointing towards the rear of the engine, or pointing towards the front of the engine.
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    I think mental health checks and drugs tests may soon be added to boarding security checks, before very long.
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    The instant you sight an electrical device of any kind that is manufactured in China, you can guarantee the claimed electrical output has no relation to actual electrical output. This applies whether the item is a battery, a small or large genset, or an electric motor. Electrical output claims are like a game to the Chinese, on a par with MPG/L/100kms fuel consumption claims, by salespeople in the car sales business.
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    Don't expect any action soon on the Angel Flight lottery sordid affair. It seems pretty obvious that bringing a con-artist to justice in NSW doesn't rate as a priority, especially as the individual involved is a Canadian citizen. https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/angel-flight-shattered-by-businessmans-unmet-promise-to-raise-half-a-million-dollars-for-lottery-prize/ff93a1e3-2e69-4bfb-bd41-38352a779da1
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    Shades of a single powerplant GAF Nomad, in the GafHawk? It'd be interesting to find out why certification was "elusive".
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    ....set of coke-bottle glasses that would do any Japanese tertiary student proud. Bull laughed and gunned the Harley at him, but at the last second, saw the razor wire, and dropped the bike, skating along the bitumen and wearing the pattern and colours and words off his Mongols jacket, faster than a Council worker scrubbing rude graffiti off the Council Chambers windows. Bull came to a sliding halt against the butt of a huge mill stump, rolled onto all fours, sighted the damage to his jacket, and screamed. "My jacket!! My Jacket!!!" - leading to at least twenty people ........
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    ......they were constantly grumbling at the inability to acquire castor oil in bulk for engine lubrication, and fretted about the fact that Gnome et Rhone parts were becoming increasingly hard to find - and this coupled with the youngsters who laughed at aeroplanes with wire-strutted double wings, made them feel that they were...........
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    This is getting a long way away from a spare parts list.
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    And in a can constructed to the cheapest manufacturing standards? I've seen pressurised cans explode in a car in Summer heat, that'd be disastrous in an aircraft. The can lid is merely crimped on, over a raised lip.
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    Avoid using tyre levers with tubed tyres. A bit of lube and a rubber hammer will generally suffice to install tube-type tyres.
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    .....went down to the shed and pulled out the faithful old Morris Minor that had served as his farm transport for many years, and measured it for the fitment of an engine and seats and dashboard from a wrecked Palisade. If he could acquire a Palisade cheaply, the only option was to turn the Morry Minor into a Morris Palisade. CT worked on the Morris Palisade for months and months. It was terribly exacting and energy-draining work - and what was worse, it cut into relaxing bunny-popping time. But finally, he could see some promising results from his efforts. He only had to do one more......... (and here, dear NES readers, we have a sneak, undercover photo of CT's project, well on its way to completion. Note the cunning use of electric fans for additional propulsion, an idea gained from CT's long aviation experiences.......)
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