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Whenever the ground gets soaked - a rare event in the W.A. Goldfields - you have to re-appraise your hold-down method. In which case, the star pickets will probably prove a better hold-down system. The ground can go from concrete-like to extremely soft once it gets soaked, and that applies anywhere.

Well, it's obvious then, isn't it? - you've been a bad boy all year long!

Most Western Australian red dirt with moderate clay content sets like concrete in Summer. You're struggling to drive star pickets into it. I've found modified Hilti concrete bolts ("screw anchors") work for me, for anchoring items in hard W.A. ground in Summer. The Hilti concrete bolts normally require an undersize hole drilled into concrete, and the bolt them screwed straight in. But that's not practical in dirt, so I grind the end of the Hilti bolt to a taper, which assists in starting them into the ground. You drive them in with an impact wrench, and you'll need a minimum of 200mm length, probably 300mm is better. Slip a big heavy washer under the head prior to installing, and use a neat-fitting D-shackle under the washer as the anchor point. /_ui/package/100336/responsive/assets/images/logo_2016_sRGB.png HUS4-H screw anchor - Mechanical Anchors - Hilti Australia WWW.HILTI.COM.AU Hilti Mechanical Anchors - HUS4-H screw anchor - High performing hexagonal head screw anchor for fastening to concrete and masonry (carbon steel)

Is another screen to look at in a cramped cabin, advisable?

Brendan, this previous discussion from over 20 years ago produces a number of points to keep in mind. It seems there's a variance in teaching amongst instructors. Your instructor may be set on teaching offset backtracking, just in case another aircraft has a need for an emergency landing on your runway. In which case, one would expect some radio warning of the need to land immediately, but this is not always the case, either.

.......keep terrorising prawns, fish and sea snakes to the point where they throw themselves into his boat. But bull rapidly escaped the Church and the Presbyterian Minister, and made his way back to a place where his desires really were still strong - an airstrip!! (long overdue avref). Bull sighted a lonely, dusty, and unloved-looking Jackaroo in a run down hangar, and his heart beat faster. Surely, that couldn't be the Jacka he once owned? He jumped the perimeter fence, and was nearly at the Jacka when he became aware of a noise that was getting louder and closer, and accompanied by a...........

Well, that's exactly what I read all those years ago, too - so I wasn't imagining it. But I can't find any reference anywhere now, to that particular aspect of the story. There's repeated reference to three of the pax sailing an 18 metre steel-hulled yacht (the "Islay G") to the Whitsundays (from Sydney) for the aircraft owner, John Challinor. But the truth is, all four pax on VH-MDX were part of the volunteer crew on the Islay G, on its trip North to the Whitsundays. There were regular crew changes as the yacht went North, but all four pax - Ken Price, Noel Wildash, Phillip Pembroke and Rhett Bosler, were on the Islay G when it reached its destination, and none of the four have ever been identified as a bookmaker. Their occupations are identified as below: - Ken Price - former chief of the NSW Newcastle Water Police Noel Wildash - Company Director Phillip Pembroke - Nursing Home operator Rhett Bosler - Finance broker. This more precise information leads me to believe the story about a bookmaker on board, carrying "the days takings", is a total fabrication, quite possibly based on hearsay. Most interesting is the winess report by a farmers wife (now deceased) at Upper Rouchel, who reported that she went outside after watching the 7:00PM news bulletin (one would presume it was the ABC News, as the ABC was most likely the only TV channel available in the area), and who thought she heard "a tractor coming up the hill". She was shocked to sight an aircraft that flew directly over her head, "nearly close enough to touch". Note, this is not a witness report where they thought they sighted an aircraft or something, in the distance. This would have been around the time of the last radio transmission, where the pilot literally yelped, "5000!!" The townsite of Upper Rouchel has an altitude of approximately 250 metres (820 feet), but there's high terrain in the region ranging up to 1400 metres (4600 feet). Upper Rouchel is quite some distance West from the Barrington Tops, where the last radar trace indicated the location of the aircraft. The last flight of Mike Delta X-ray - Photo Time Tunnel WWW.PHOTOTIMETUNNEL.COM Mystery of Mike Delta X-ray plane crash Fear of Landing – Cessna Missing Barrington Tops and the 2013 Search FEAROFLANDING.COM Special thanks to Mark Nolan who filled me in on this and made scans of the original investigation available to me so that I could use primary sources for this post. On the 9th of August in 1981, a…

.....led bull to think long and hard, as to how you go about servicing a big end nut. He'd learnt all about servicing various other things in his career, but big end nuts weren't one of them. There was only one thing to do - call up the professionals - Turbine Big End Nut Servicing Inc, and get the whole lowdown on how to go about it. But when his call was answered, bull was stunned to hear......

I've never seen anyone successfully repair an epoxied PCB, but I guess there could always be a first time. I doubt whether the epoxy melting point is low enough to melt and flow out, without causing major damage to the electronics.

There's at least three things about the crash of VH-MDX, that numerous amateur searchers fail to appreciate. 1. The aircraft quite likely broke up in flight due to icing and tumbling out of control. This would mean a number of pieces of the aircraft fell to Earth, thus making the "crash site", multiple "crash sites". 2. The aircraft was way off track, and no-one really knows what track it actually followed. It could be 10 or 15kms away from the "calculated" potential crash positions. Even several kms off the projected track would make for a much larger search area. 3. Lots of very well-informed, competent and highly qualified people have spend a lot of time searching for the aircraft wreckage, and constantly come up totally empty-handed - with not even a tiny piece of wreckage or aircraft contents having been found. This indicates to me that the aircraft is well outside any area previously searched.

Thruster, I don't have a link to any concrete information about money on board VH-MDX, I only read it somewhere, many years ago, and I cannot guarantee the article was accurate. The more I dig into the official crash records, the more it seems the article I read was incorrect, or I've simply confused VH-MDX with another aircraft crash, which aircraft also hasn't been found. The NAA contains a huge amount of VH-MDX records, just search the records for "VH-MDX". Session expired | RecordSearch | National Archives of Australia RECORDSEARCH.NAA.GOV.AU

I would think it was unlikely. People who come into illegal cash in large amounts almost always brag about it to someone, or more importantly, splash it around. This brings attention to themselves. They would have to be peculiarly special people to be able to find the wreckage, extract the cash, spend it in only small amounts, and tell no-one, not even partners or close associates. In addition, the notes would show signs of damage, and trying to replace or pay with damaged notes on a regular basis, would also bring attention to them. I understand the amount involved is well over $600,000, so a big enough find to go to the head of many people, and make them indulge in large purchases.

There's virtually no possibility of dissolving the epoxy that is poured and set around electronic components. It is specifically designed to ensure that electronic repairs cannot be carried out.

There's an entire group called Barrington Research Group, comprising many highly qualified people and friends and family of the deceased, who continue to garner information about the possible location of VH-MDX. They warn searchers that if they find the wreckage, it is not to be touched, and only reported to authorities. It's also reported that there's a very substantial amount of cash in the wreckage, as the bookmaker on board was travelling with his funds for the trip. I couldn't imagine that the notes would be of any value now, though, as natural decay over more than 40 years would have rendered them so badly damaged, as to be virtually unusable. The bottom line is the wreckage is the final resting place of multiple bodies that need specialists to examine, ID, and recover. VH-MDX | Search for Missing Cessna 210 over Barrington Tops VHMDX.COM.AU

......from lack of liquid intake after such a gruelling trek, and the bloke at Turbine 3D brought him around by waving a bottle of Turbine Inc Whiskey under his nose. As part of his business reach and the need to regulary entertain Presidents and even lower classes of people (such as Tasmanians) who wanted to buy his products, Turbo thought it was a great idea to invest in a Whisky distillery. His distillery, located on a remote stretch of the mighty Mekong River, used the river water as the basis of all the distilleries products (which included gin as well as whisky), and it was the smell of the Mekong River water that brought OT around rapidly and made him jump to his feet. "That's VC and NVA I can smell!!" he yelled, as he reached for his trusty SLR - which he suddenly realised, was no longer in his possession. It was unnerving to OT to suddenly realise, that he was re-living the experience of keeping the nefarious Commies at bay, and........

Worn oil rings will also produce dirty oil very rapidly.

HEIC files are the standard Apple image format - High Efficiency Image File format. I didn't have any trouble viewing them, and I'm running a desktop with Windows 11 with Chrome. However, the HEIC file doesn't open automatically, or appear immediately on the webpage you're viewing, it goes straight to "Downloads", and you have to open the Downloads file, and view them from there. Windows 11 with Chrome has a shortcut button to Downloads at the top right of the page, which makes it quicker to access the HEIC files, rather than accessing them through Files and Folders. Here's the images changed to JPG and loaded directly to this website, anyway.

The vegetation in that Tiger country is so dense, and the country is so full of ravines and gullies, you could be standing on top of the wreckage, and still not see it. It will take many more years and possibly new search equipment that can find metals buried deep in the vegetation, before its found. The footprint of an aircraft that has speared into thick vegetation can be quite small. My BIL is a retired senior police officer and he was sent out to check a country highway for a reported crashed vehicle. He and a colleague spent considerable time searching the roadsides in a police vehicle, and the adjoining bush, for the reported crashed vehicle, but found nothing. Then, several days later, other searchers found the vehicle with the deceased driver still in it. The marks left by the vehicle as it left the road were barely visible, and the vehicle speared into thick scrub, and was essentially hidden from view, except for anyone within a few metres of the crash site, and on foot. BIL was reprimanded over his failure to find the vehicle, but I don't think he should have been, he really should have been given a bigger search team, more equipment (including aerial search equipment), and more time. It's not the first time crashed cars haven't been found for days - so imagine the effort required to find an aircraft speared into a gully or ravine in Tiger country, where you can get lost, just stepping off tracks.

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......was appalled to find that the Rooter was still in his yard, and that no-one wanted to transport it. All the transport operators claimed that DG was way off the beaten track, had a bad reputation for vehicles getting shot up indiscriminately, and the roads were nothing less than.......

There's some interesting measurements on landing gear loads of the XB-70 in the NASA technical report, below. Yes, the XB-70 was a huge aircraft, but the measured drag loads on the landing gear trucks at touchdown, were very substantial. Pages 11 and 12 show the graphs, lbs on the left, Newtons on the right. NASA measured the landing gear loads in every direction. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19680026601/downloads/19680026601.pdf

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.....he spotted a "new product" name the "Super Rabbit Rooter". This item was an OT invention, an improved version of Robert Le Tourneaus Rooter of 1931. It's not sure now if CT was entranced by the name or by the machines ability to destroy rabbit warrens on an industrial scale. With the 6 cans of Swan Lager downed in a little under the 15 mins he talked animatedly with the Onetrak salesman, CT was emboldened. He pulled out his Samsung S23 and paid for it on the spot with his Google Wallet (CT might be from DG, but he's right up with the latest digital technology), and the Rooter was his. All that was required now was arranging the delivery date. CT needed to think about this, his appointments calendar was pretty full, what with aircraft events, golf tournaments, aerial rabbit-popping competitions, international airport management, and............

.....as OT pointed out the ripper tyne was made of PLASTIC! "Those XXXX'ing Chinese are at it again!!", he exclaimed. "I've had enough of this Chinese trickery!" - and he reached for his phone and dialled up a number in his phone contacts. "Herro!" said a Chinese voice, and OT replied, "Hello, Xi, you tricky old bxxxxxd!! What are you up to now, besides ripping off Westerners with your cheap imitation manufactured products!! I mean to say, it's bad enough packaging your ripper tynes as genuine Cat parts, and even painting them the exact correct colour, and even using the same part numbers! - but to make them out of PLASTIC, is just straining our friendship waay too much!!" "Lissen, OT, you old bxxxxxd!! (Note to NES readers - OT and Xi were mates from way back, ever since they did a big mining JV, based in Hong Kong, and extracting rare earth minerals out of Mongolia), you better stop spouting lubbish on that Leck Flying forum, telling everyone about our chleap and nasty Chinese products! This is not good for our countries relationships, you might cause a diplomatic rift! - and maybe you could even spend some time inside one of our fine le-education camps, until you see the Chinese point of view!!" OT swallowed hard. XI wasn't to be trifled with, OT remembered what happened to the people who opposed the mining operations, they were all rounded up at the protest, by some tough-looking Chinese all dressed in black, and the protestors weren't seen again. "It's O.K.", said OT, trying to smooth things over. "We just have a few little problems here with some of your products, and you just have to make sure you jail a few more of your corrupt managers!" "Ahh-Ha!", said XI, "Jail!! - Yes, I like the sound of that word, especially when it comes to dealing with recalcitrants who don't follow Chinese point of view!! By the way, speaking of recalcitrants, how's that Turbo XXXX doing? The last time I heard from him, he was trying to crack into Chinese cat farming, but I soon cut the............

...... and which ends up completely rooted. However, there were questions from OT that CT needed to answer. "Why do you need 3 x D7 rippers?". "Have you got a D7?" What's the serial number and and model?" "Is it turboed or naturally aspirated?" "Air-con cabin or open ROPS?" CT was a bit flustered by the barrage of questions. To him, a D7 was a D7 and ever since he got the D7 to sort out the DG rabbits once and for all, he didn't think about things like the questions OT posed. In fact, he'd bought the D7 without realising it didn't even have a ripper - a vital component when it comes to ripping up rabbit warrens - and CT went to sleep at night dreaming about ripping up rabbit warrens, and listening to the squeals of dying rabbits. So now, he had a conundrum. He found out he needed ripper tynes, but then he realised he didn't have a ripper, to which he needed to fit them. But after talking again with OT, who knew a bloke who knew a supplier, who knew the whereabouts of a D7 ripper, CT was on track again to sort out those pesky rabbits, and it was only going to be a matter of time, money and organisation, before he could......