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    I could go one of those personalised 1 or 2 person dedicated air transports once they get the bugs out - but I reckon it will be decades before any even remotely viable flying car is a commercial success - simply because movement on the ground and movement through the air, are at diametrically opposite ends of the spectrum. You get bingles and scrapes in cars in every car park, so you'd have to keep right out of areas where physical contact is possible, so this is a major drawback. The Chinese are not missing the boat either, and you can see them trying to integrate phone and tablet technology with personalised flying transport. However, to get real commercial success, someone has to produce a totally reliable and effective method of avoiding gravity taking total control of your "flying car". I like the port and starboard lighting in this thing, someone has actually thought about identifying the direction of travel of other craft.
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    Planey, your uploaded image is non-functional.
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    Has the QC deteriorated again at Boeing, to the extent that flight control assembly checks aren't signed off by a second inspector? Just makes you wonder how much Boeing relies on good luck, and individual employees being conscientious in their assembly work.
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    Auctions? - Wow, this is a pretty cool addition to the site, Ian! But I think it also needs a link to the auction/s in the LHS menu.
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    Definitely a case of the marketing dept making claims that the engineering dept can't deliver! - certainly not in their lifetime, anyway!
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    .....and his skull put on a post, as a warning to others. By now, Ahmed had figured out that the lever sticking out of the floor of the TurboArabDrifter was a clever magnification device. When you pushed it forward, the soldiers got bigger - when you pulled it back, the soldiers got smaller. As Ahmed had no desire to encounter big soldiers, and wasn't even entirely wrapped in the idea of meeting small soldiers either, he decided it was better to make things smaller as much as possible, so he pulled the lever back and looked for........
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    Yes, the "Golden Days" were full of some dreadful airline disasters, many of them weather-related in the days of inadequate forecasting, and inadequate pilot aids for bad weather. And many were just plain foolish "press-on-itis", and poor flight planning.
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    I must admit, the era of wicker chairs, white suits, and boaters in aircraft, was one I enjoyed.
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    ....the Jerusalem Airport, where he sighted a TurboArabDrifter, got extremely excited about it, and after some haggling and bargaining, swapped the donkey plus 6 bags of the finest Wadi dates, 600 Egyptian Pounds, and a genuine original copy of the Dead Sea Scrolls, for the TurboArabDrifter. Greatly pleased with his hard-won deal, Ahmed climbed astride the TurboArabDrifter (which catered for Middle Eastern tastes and preferences, by having a donkey saddle instead of a regular seat, and a lightly-perfumed cabin which smelt of 18-day-old camel and donkey dung, which was a great hit with the locals), found the pegs to place his feet and started whipping the cowling, all the while yelling.........
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    ....told them he was on a Crusade to fight back against the warmongering advance of a truly evil group known as CASA - and he told the awe-struck locals, that CASA had made inroads into every area of aviators lives, and turned their existence into misery, with stifling petty regulations and rule, bombastic field officers, snail-like communication when aviators sought assistance and clarity over what they could and couldn't do, and where they could go - and CASA had also instigated cruel and unusual punishment, in the form of..........
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    You asked for advice, you got given good, comprehensive advice - but because it's not what you wanted to hear, you reckon it's a waste of time asking? I hope you don't just end up an aviation statistic, because you knew better than any good aviating advice?
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    Curtiss Seagull

    onetrack commented on red750's aircraft in Sea Planes

    "Leisurely" performance, to say the least!!
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    VL Myrsky II

    onetrack commented on red750's aircraft in Warbirds

    One gamers fabrication for a flightsim effort. https://live.warthunder.com/post/994260/en/
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    It was actually an incompetent pushback effort. Tyres were ripped off in the exercise.
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    .....for a Bone Pouting Day, out of respect to all the great Bone Pouters, past, present and future. "We just call it Boning here", said Cappy, when heard about the Bone Pouters dissidents. In fact, they reckon I've Boned everything on two legs around here, and someone even claimed I was known as the Phantom Boner, thanks to my tendency to sneak around at night holding my Bone, and.........
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    ......"pout the bone at all Jews and make them die slowly!" This brought out the "Anti-Bone Pouting" activists who started their own march, pointing out (without pouting), that Bone Pouting was an ancient and sacred tradition, that was being reduced to a commercially-exploited level, and by doing so, the exploiters would end up being.......
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    .....Recreational Rabbit Shooting (RRS), right through to Recreational Aerobatics (which included bursting water-filled balloons with propellors). But it was when Morton applied to have a Paddy Drifter Recreational Passenger permit, with an estimated average of 11 passengers every trip (because no-one wanted to miss a trip in a Paddy Drifter, and they'd all go along for the ride, regardless of whether they wanted to go somewhere or not), CASA started an inquiry into just how 11 people would fit into a Paddy Drifter. "It's easy!", said Morton. "Dey all just hang onto sumfing, like a wing strut or a landing gear leg, and as long as the.........
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    A grading for operational condition must be specifically related to the subject. You cannot have a universal grading system because it doesn't cover specific applicable features of the item you wish to grade. Here's a Canadian grading system that shows gradings for different municipal assets. Note how each grading system is different according to the asset being graded. https://pubsaskdev.blob.core.windows.net/pubsask-prod/92458/92458-Asset_Management_Condition_Grading_Standards.pdf The military produce the best grading systems, but once again, they're only applicable to the asset classification being graded. All military items receive classifications under their type and use. This is a standardised NATO system and is in use in all NATO countries. It is called the NATO Stock Number (NSN). Along with the NSN, NATO forces use coloured tagging to indicate equipment condition. The coloured tagging is limited to 5 colours, which covers the essential 5 stages of equipment condition. https://www.creativesafetysupply.com/articles/military-equipment/
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    ...... Cappy was arrested for begging and vagrancy and for impersonating a toll booth position (he'd set up a fake toll booth and was fairly raking it in) - by a police officer who bore more than a passing resemblance to a well-known NES character. The officer placed Cappy in a Paddy Wagon, which in size and shape and colouring, made Cappy a bit suspicious. For a start, it didn't have..........
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    Vans has begun emailing clients informing them of alterations to current purchase agreements. In some cases, prices have increased beyond the 35% originally estimated and Vans have also been adding sales taxes to agreements where the owners are liable for sales taxes. Kit builders can agree to the new prices or decline to pay them, whereby their previous deposits then join the pool of unsecured creditors. Vans will also soon release its final engineering review of the laser-cut parts, which review includes fatigue testing of the laser-cut parts to determine if they're any more prone to fatigue-related cracking, than the punched parts. The administrators of the company were also awaiting a judges decision on 19th Dec 2023, as to whether the company can use cash collateral and whether it can obtain credit. It appears the ability to acquire credit was approved with no objections, but the proposal to use cash collateral has been deferred for 4 days as the administrators require extra time to complete the Schedules and Statement of Financial Affairs. https://www.kitplanes.com/vans-begins-informing-builders-of-new-agreements/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/51583745/Vans_Aircraft,_Inc
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    "Tire" wear? Only in America, we have tyres here.
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    And still no country in the world has a scheme to deal with nuclear waste. Everyone thinks it's a great idea to bury nuclear waste in the centre of the Outback, because it's so isolated. However, after Maralinga, and the Poms generally treating inland Australia like a nuclear waste dump, no-one is ever going to get approval from the Indigenes to bury nuclear waste in the Outback.
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    Found a little more info - but still nothing on what "low level radioactive waste" actually is. I gather from other sources it is cleaning equipment, safety equipment and tools that have been lightly irradiated and which cannot be re-used, as they're then classed as radioactive. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-18/aukus-americans-western-australia-radioactive-storage-facility/103239924 https://www.aumanufacturing.com.au/australia-hasnt-figured-out-low-level-nuclear-waste-storage-yet-let-alone-high-level-waste-from-submarines
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    More info below .... but not a whisper from anyone in Govt about that "low level nuclear waste" in all the trumpeting over the AUKUS deal. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-14/aukus-deal-jim-chalmers-hmas-stirling-expansion-perth-wa/102092058 https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd2223a/23bd081 https://theconversation.com/australia-hasnt-figured-out-low-level-nuclear-waste-storage-yet-let-alone-high-level-waste-from-submarines-201781
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    JCB already have one of their standard diesel engines re-engineered to run satisfactorily on hydrogen. More than a third of Perths buses are diesels running on CNG, and they have been doing this for around 15 years successfully. CNG is readily available here in the West, hydrogen is in limited supply everywhere - the problems centre around developing processes to produce viable amounts of low-cost hydrogen, and installing distribution networks for alternative fuels. Carbon fibre tanks appear to be the answer to hydrogen storage. Either way, alternative fuels still have a long way to go to meet the current cost of fossil fuels. The Japanese Govt and Japanese industry have a monstrous size R&D fund, dedicated to finding sources of cheap hydrogen and developing distribution networks for it, and I can assure you they won't hold back on the spending to do this, it is a national aim of the Japanese.
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