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Dom, you posted this aircraft video just 10 days ago, are you getting forgetful in your old age?

But it's the one coming from above and behind, that you need to look out for, too!

Rex has currently ceased selling air tickets between capitals until the company problems have been sorted out. They are still taking bookings for regional flights. It is believed that the directors were preparing to appoint EY as Administrators, but the Albanese Govt has been in crisis talks with the company and the Deloitte restructuring team, to ensure that regional cities aren't left without an air service.

The best description of Dan Gryder I've seen recently, is "the Foghorn Leghorn of aviation". Bombastic, opinionated, brash, and quite prepared to unleash on anyone he targets, and causing great diviseness. Despite all his warnings and self-aggrandising safety advice, people still keep killing themselves in aircraft at alarming rates - and many of them, due to the same overconfidence that Dan exudes.

REX's problems are far bigger than requiring airports to have security control and ASIC cards. They are burning up money like a problem gambler at the pokies. They've managed to increase their turnover in the hope of increasing their profits - but the losses continue - and are increasing. They're now trying to compete with Qantas and Virgin on the Melb-Perth-Melb run, using 737's. They've got 10 of them, but I'll wager their profitability is low. REX is "technically insolvent", and without a major corporate revamp and a substantial re-capitalisation, I can see them going the way of Bonza and Compass. Is Regional Express Holdings (ASX:REX) Using Debt In A Risky Way? SIMPLYWALL.ST Howard Marks put it nicely when he said that, rather than worrying about share price volatility, 'The possibility of...

Rex Airlines has advised the ASC of a trading halt in their shares as they call in a Deloitte "restructuring team" to apparently address major operating and financial issues. It looks like someone has just presented the books for the FY just gone, and the red ink is overwhelming. The CEO grabbed his bags and did a runner last month, maybe he saw the financial tsunami coming. https://cdn-api.markitdigital.com/apiman-gateway/ASX/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-02832356-2A1537758&v=70bc033a22188bdfefb8a0b8ad3c24897ef2837d Rex Airlines enters trading halt after Deloitte reportedly called in — Capital Brief WWW.CAPITALBRIEF.COM The news: Regional Express Holdings has entered a trading halt on the ASX, after a media report claimed the regional airline has appointed Deloitte's restructuring services.

More info in the links below. Looks like a typical, extremely complex, European design machine to me, complete with all the normal reliability problems that come with them. In depth: Airbus’ Racer fast helicopter set for 2020 test flight WWW.AEROSPACETESTINGINTERNATIONAL.COM With one year to go before its maiden flight, Airbus Helicopters' Racer technology demonstrator, which aims to reach speeds of up to 400km/h (250mph) is innovating in terms of its design and flight testing Advanced Assembly Solutions for the Airbus RACER Joined-Wing Configuration - Mobility Engineering Technology WWW.MOBILITYENGINEERINGTECH.COM The Rapid And Cost Effective Rotorcraft (RACER) demonstrator is being developed by Airbus Helicopters (AH) to further validate the compound rotorcraft configuration.

The 21st century reincarnation of a P-51!

CASA computer says NO to shooting at drones! Besides, there are any number of firearms laws that relate back to improper or dangerous use of a firearm, so I'd think twice before shooting down that annoying drone! Log into Facebook WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Log into Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know. Drones operate under aviation laws and under CASA control, so I would think it's pretty clear where shooting at drones is covered. AVIATION TRANSPORT SECURITY ACT 2004 - SECT 10 Meaning of unlawful interference with aviation WWW8.AUSTLII.EDU.AU Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), a joint facility of UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law. The Civil Aviation Act 1988 defines an "aircraft" as; QUOTE: ["aircraft" means any machine or craft that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air, other than the reactions of the air against the earth's surface.] CIVIL AVIATION ACT 1988 - SECT 3 Interpretation WWW8.AUSTLII.EDU.AU Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), a joint facility of UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law.

There's a good article on the ABC News site today about the 3G shutdown. If you're a total dinosaur and still using a 3G phone, the telcos are actually giving away 4G phones to those customers still using 3G phones, to ensure they aren't left abandoned! An item I thought interesting was the fact that the RFDS is a bit cheesed off about the 3G shutdown - and the dubious performance of the 4G replacement service - that they have opted to go over to the Starlink satellite service, at a pretty sizeable initial and annual cost to them. Australia's telcos are giving away free phones and gift vouchers, in last-minute bid to shift customers off 3G - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Telstra and Optus are offering free mobile phones to vulnerable Australians as they prepare to switch off the 3G network within weeks.

The Testra "3G test" seems to work well. I'm with Boost, which is a division of Telstra anyway. I tried the 3498 test, and it came back with a message identifying my phone brand and model, and reassuring me I wasn't at any risk of loss of communication with my phone model. The interesting part though, is that the message doesn't address the fact that it's a service that is being withdrawn, so those services still using 3G for operations will simply no longer provide the requested service, if they have made no plans to move to some other bandwidth or communication protocol. 4G phones need to have VoLTE capability (and have it enabled), to be able to utilise the 000 emergency service after the 3G shutdown. How do I enable VoLTE on my mobile phone? - Telstra WWW.TELSTRA.COM.AU Find out what is VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and how to enable it on your mobile phone. If you want to find our your phones technical specifications relating to bandwidths built into it, GSMArena will provide you with the information pertaining to all the bandwidths your phone is capable of - provided you know the exact model of your phone. Once you have found and brought up your exact phone model on GSMArena, look at the RH end of the first line in the specifications - "NETWORK - Technology" - and you'll see a menu button that says "expand". Clicking the "expand" button gives you the full list of bandwidths that phone has installed. Be aware that mobile handsets of any particular model can have up to 20 different versions of that model, depending on the bandwidths it's capable of operating on, and where it was designed to be used in the world. The model code supplies the version information. GSMArena.com - mobile phone reviews, news, specifications and more... WWW.GSMARENA.COM GSMArena.com - The ultimate resource for GSM handset information

........admitting to actually voting for a Green candidate once, as the candidate was a rather good-looking member of the female variety, and Cappy admitted to letting his primal urges override his good judgement, at that particular polling place on that day. However, he was brought to his senses when Turbo pulled him aside and hissed in his ear, ".................

It is also advisable to make them the same as other aircraft, so no confusion results when you've learnt to fly on another aircraft, or move onto flying another aircraft.

It's because two bicycle manufacturers from Dayton OH - that decided to go into the aircraft manufacturing business - also decided that switches on aircraft had to be the same as American houses - which are UP for ON. And another interesting reason I've read is because early electrical power switches were the "knife-blade" style, where your pivoting connecting arm swung to a position between two spring-loaded clips to power up. The spring-loaded clips were placed at the TOP of the switch mechanism, so that you swung the connecting arm UP to complete the circuit. It was thought that if the spring-loaded clips were positioned at the bottom and the arm swung DOWN to power up, that this could lead to accidental powering up from the OFF position, if gravity ever overcame what was holding the connecting arm UP. As you could imagine, having an electrical motor accidentally start up when you were working on it, or working on the driveline it drove, would lead to some disastrous accidents.

An Italian Eurofighter Typhoon (F-2000) has had a serious malfunction whilst carrying out aerial operations during the multi-national exercise, "Pitch Black", centred on Darwin. The pilot ejected successfully and the aircraft crashed in a remote area of the Daly region, approximately half way between Daly River Mission Airport (YDMN) and Anson Bay, just south of Daly River. Log into Facebook WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Log into Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know. Italian Eurofighter Crashes In Australia During Ex. Pitch Black 2024 - The Aviationist THEAVIATIONIST.COM The Italian Air Force has confirmed that the pilot was successfully rescued. A Eurofighter Typhoon belonging to the Italian Air Force (Aeronautica

A double fatal, to be precise. But it wasn't any airshow participant, it appears it was a visitors aircraft arriving to see the show. The make and model of aircraft is still unknown and the names/identities of the victims is still not known, either. Two Killed in Plane Crash Near Wisconsin Air Show - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM Emergency responders found a plane engulfed in flames in a farm field near the Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture showcase in Oshkosh.

......middle finger on their right hand. This of course, led to protests from the Mollydookers who wrote with their left hands, as they claimed it was a distinct case of discrimination against Mollydookers. Before long, the schools were being picketed as the Mollydookers held protests against the measurement, and the protests often became violent, when the Riot Police became involved. The Riot Police were at a distinct disadvantage, as they watched for weapons being held in the protestors right hands - and the Mollydookers caught them by surprise, by swinging weapons in their left hands. Academic awards were totally forgotten in the regular melees, and very soon, the protestors were front page news items worldwide, which led to........

Power lines will get you every time, even when you know they're there, just a few seconds distraction is all it takes. Crop dusters die at probably triple the rate of other types of pilots.

If you've ever hung onto a firehose with a proper fire pump driving it, you will understand the massive pressure required to keep control of it. The drone firefighting video is pure BS, the pressure from those hoses would be sending the drones backwards at 200kmh. A lot of firefighting teams use a tripod or a vehicle mounted hose, to ensure they don't get propelled back into the next block. At the very least, you will often see 3 blokes hanging onto one fire hose to keep it under control.

Caiguna Roadhouse also provides excellent food.

A friend is a former Bristol radial mechanic, he was in the RAN, and the RAN still ran Bristol Pegasus powered Sea Furies up until 1963. Despite their complexity, the Bristols were exceptionally quiet, and the Japs called the Bristol Hercules-powered Beaufighters, the Whispering Death, because the Australian Beaufighter pilots could sneak up on them at low level.

Or how it arrives? Dropped on your front lawn, where the dog promptly rushes out, and chews it up?

.......from the East - Turbo, of Turbine Wind and Solar Energy notoriety, had led the way in scamming desperate punters and even State Govts out of their money. It's a little known fact, that in the early 80's, with oil prices peaking at ballistic levels, Turbo scammed a large percentage of Australian investors (not just the W.A. ones) out of multiple billions with his claims to be able to produce low cost fuels and electrical energy from his Tasmanian cat farms, and also export it wirelessly to far-flung places such as W.A. and the N.T. His claims were promoted by his old-school advertising front man, "Captain" Cook (no-one really knows where he got the title, some suspect it's simply an honorary title), who was formerly a noted sideshow spieler, able to part money from tightwads with smooth patter and ego-boosting direct talk, that made the punters feel more special than anyone else in the world. "Captain" Cook went on TV, spouting the incredible planned fuels and energy output of the Turbine Inc cat farms, all generated by waste products, of course, and the money flowed in faster than a Trump dedicated PAC fundraiser. Then cracks started to appear in the Turbine Inc claims, especially when pointed questions were asked about the fine details and specific technology involved in the cat farms fuel and energy production. Cappy always deferred to Turbo for details (as he's always done), and Turbo started appearing on TV interviews and radio talk-back programmes, where he managed to........

Could be interesting to see the level of stuff-ups. Delivery employees often have major problems finding the correct address from the ground - let alone from the air, from a remote position. Google Maps aren't any better than about 90% accurate, I often spend time correcting them - especially when there's a lot of new property/road development. Could lend a whole new level of meaning to "the dog ate my dinner!"