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.....some Goanna Liniment is what he actually needed right at this moment?", he thought - as his tongue started to dart in and out. He couldn't hold back any longer, he made a rush at the big vat that Ed was stirring, and knocking both Ed and Jimmy aside, he scrambled up onto the edge of the vat, and started to dip his right hand (now starting to look like a claw) into the bubbling solution. Then it happened - the worst thing that could happen. Turbo lost his grip and fell, right into..............

The best way to acquire adequate insurance is to contact a broker who either specialises in aviation insurance, or who knows which companies deal with aviation insurance. Insurance for the likes of aviation is highly specialised and only a few insurance companies will take it on. They need to be able to understand the risks involved, and this also involves the insured party making very clear what activities they undertake, how often, where, and under what circumstances, so the insurance company is properly informed, and can calculate the risk accordingly. A broker works for you, to get the best deal that properly covers what you want covered.

.....adding essence of bat legs (assists in curing flight problems), some ground tiger penis powder (assists in getting strength into weak things), several dingo hairs (adds bite to the product), and a litre of used crankcase oil (30 weight and heavier is preferred - and this final element adds the lubricity required). Some Box Poison leaves are finally introduced to the steaming solution, which aids greatly in killing any life-form that remains, after the liniment is applied. Once cooled, the mixture is allowed to settle, the scum is skimmed off the top, and you end up with the pure Goanna Liniment, ready to pour into little goanna-shaped cans. Turbo watched with great interest as this process was being carried out by Ed and his sidekick, Jimmy "One-eye" Wangkirny, who controlled the ingredients amounts, while Ed did the stirring. It was obvious Turbo was eyeing the commercial potential of copying.........

Wedgetail Aircraft P/L appears to have been Ray Tolhursts registered company. This company has been de-registered. Wedgetail Aviation P/L is a different company, and owns VH-EBT, which I presume is the Aztec aircraft KRaviator mentions. Wedgetail Aircraft Pty Ltd WWW.AUSTRALIACHECK.COM Wedgetail Aircraft Pty Ltd VH-EBT 6 AUSTAIRDATA.COM.AU Registration VH-EBT Sequence 6 Registration Date 201207 Aircraft Type PA-23-250 Aztec C Constructor's Number 27-385

.....worst itchy rash, where I've never had a rash before!" Ed replied, "I've got a cure for that - and it also involves Goannas. I use Goanna Liniment - it cures everything from nasty rashes right through to AIDS and COVID-19, and if you smear some Goanna Liniment on the control cables and pulleys in your aircraft (long overdue avref), you'll be amazed at what the stuff does to aircraft performance!" "What? Even on the Polikarpov I-16 control cables and pulleys?", said Гарольд. "Yes, it makes anything and everything more supple and pliable", said ED. "That's incredible news!", said Гарольд, "Where can I get some of this fabulous, almost magical liniment?" "Well", said Ed, "First, you have to catch a big Bungarra and kill it. This is not easy, as the savagery of big Bungarras is well known, just ask any snake! After you've managed to kill the Bungarra, you then have to........

I have no idea what JOTA is, but if you mean the JORN system of over the horizon radar tracking, then there's at least a couple of qualifications as regards JORN's ability to see MH370. The aircraft disappeared in the wee small hours of a Saturday morning on March 8, 2014. It has been calculated the aircraft would've run out of fuel by 0800HRS AWST, and may possibly have crashed earlier, as the fuel burn of MH370 cannot be calculated. The JORN system is a Defence system, and as such, is under a substantial level of secrecy. Despite stating the JORN operates 24hrs a day, there is a possibility it was not operational for some reason at the time MH370 went missing. Defence will never reveal whether the system was operational or not in that time period, they are not about to reveal what is likely to be classified information. Secondly, the precise capabilities of JORN are also secret. Defence brag about how small the airborne targets are that they can reputedly see, but there are no doubt qualifications to those claims. One qualification is that, as JORN uses the Doppler Effect to track airborne targets, the movement of targets tangential to the base station array means that they cannot be picked up. The course of MH370 is effectively tangential to the JORN station in Leonora, W.A. Jindalee Operational Radar Network - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Ray Tolhurst died suddenly on Christmas Eve 2023, aged 68. His FB page is still up, and no-one has posted any information on it as regards the associated demise of Wedgetail Aircraft. Ex-Normanhurst Boys High School Group | Not sure if this sad news is... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Not sure if this sad news is widely known. Ray Tolhurst, a student of NBHS between 1968-1973, and my best mate, sadly passed away on Christmas Eve. Condolences to his family and friends. He was one... Raymond Tolhurst WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Raymond Tolhurst is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Raymond Tolhurst and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected.

You just have to be careful about what Google throws up for search results. Scammers set up fake websites to scam people, and then "game" Google search algorithms to end up high in Google search results. A recent example is the legit-looking site recently exposed, that claimed to provide heaps of great information about upcoming welfare payments. But the payments are non-existent. However, the information provided is about legit earlier welfare payments - the scammers just make it appear the payments are going to be repeated. I think I'm reasonably savvy, but the fake "information" site took me in. However, after close reading of the "information", it became obvious to me there was something about it that didn't jell. The style of writing was poor. I suspected it was written by AI, but I didn't realise scammers do this setting up of "information" sites regularly, to set up unsuspecting people up, same as any other sting. Incidentally, if you come across a fake website (there's plenty out there, watch out for the ones selling bargain aircraft parts!), you can report them to Google, and Google will delete them from search results. Of course, this doesn't stop the scammers from just changing something about the fake site, and then getting back into Google search results again, though. It's a "whack a mole" game, just like trying to block scam phone calls. Google Safe Browsing: Report a Malware Page WWW.GOOGLE.COM The lucrative scam business behind a non-existent Centrelink payment - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU These websites might seem like victimless enterprises, but there are real-world consequences for people who get tangled up in the lies.

Today, well over 10 years since MH370 vanished, the Malaysian Govt has agreed to fund a new search for the aircraft. The new search proposal has been put forward by Ocean Infinity, who previously searched (unsuccessfully) for the aircraft, in 2018. The new search will be on a "no find, no fee" basis, and is to cover a new, recently defined, 15,000 sq km area outside the previous areas searched. The new search is proposed to commence around March/April 2025. If the aircraft is found, Ocean Infinity will be paid US$70M. Flight MH370: Malaysia launches fresh search in New Oceanic zone after 10 years ECONOMICTIMES.INDIATIMES.COM Malaysia has agreed to restart the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, more than a decade after the aircraft disappeared. The decision follows a proposal by exploration firm Ocean Infinity, with a $70...

.....horror of W.A. Drop Possums (the East Coast have Drop Bears, the West has Drop Possums), and warning him the W.A. Possums are as big as Cougars and twice as vicious, and they lay in wait in trees, ready to drop on their unsuspecting human prey passing below. Not many people know that OT bears the scars of a W.A. Drop Possum attack, he's one of the few survivors of such an attack, and recounting the attack makes listeners hairs stand up on the back of their necks, with the listeners making sure, in their trips to W.A. that they never venture out at night under big W.A. trees, because they now know that......... (and here, dear NES readers, we have one of the W.A. Drop Possums victims last photos from a fatal attack, showing the Possum ready to pounce......)

You can blame Henry Ford for the LHD car and truck operation decision. Taken without general consultation, and done with dictator-level Henry Ford authority. All U.S. vehicles were RHD prior to 1912. Your control abilities all go back to training. Most of us are right-handed, and favour that hand. Most Americans say, "I could never change gears with my left hand!" - but it only takes a little training to cope with changes, and develop the dexterity skills in the appropriate hand. I've driven and am competent in the operation of many dozens of construction machines, and they vary considerably in controls layout, even in direction of throttle operation. My Dad was a signwriter and painter and quite a good artist. He could start a big drawing or painting or hand-written sign with his right hand, and swap to his left hand with ease, and lose nothing by way of artistic skill. I'm sure he was born left-handed, but the schools in the U.K. in the era he was raised (very early 20th century) beat left-handedness out of kids.

Population density is the tipping point for rail. European cities work well with rail and trams, because of population density. Here in Oz we suffer from the fact we're all spread out and like our space. But when the traffic congestion gets horrendous, and one prang brings the entire freeway to a halt, then the train starts looking pretty good. Plus, the cost of car ownership is a big burden for many people. A factor that is becoming galling to me, is that the police close an entire section of road (including freeways) after a major prang, nowadays. This closure can be for many hours, even a whole day. It's disastrous to a road traffic system.

.......hide, heads buried in the bushes, thus showing Cappy their bare bums, a regular method of showing dislike for people in authority in the colonies. Cappy was shocked to see all these bare bums pointed at him, and asked, "What have I.............

Electrically-driven, multi-car set trains have the capability to handle up to around 400 passengers at once, unlike buses, which are limited to around 70-80 pax (up to maybe 160 on an articulated bus). Electric-drive train sets are also extremely low pollution level, and low operating cost on a per-head basis. They're faster than buses, and don't get caught up in traffic jams caused by car crashes. Trains have a longer lifespan than buses, 15 years for buses, 30 years for the modern stainless-steel, electric-driven train car sets. Electric train technology today is pretty advanced, AC drive motors, and regenerative braking operates down to 30kmh, meaning the disc brakes get little hard use.

God forbid that we ever change over to driving on the right, half the nation can't drive properly on the left now! Probably about a quarter of the current crop of drivers seem to fail to understand that basic road rule of "keeping to the left"!! They park on the wrong side of the road, facing the wrong way (a chargeable offence in every jurisdiction in Australia), they fail to understand the dangers in parking in this manner - they corner wide, and come across to your side of the road at T-junctions and curves, instead of keeping to their side! - they drive down the middle of most urban roads, as if they own the whole road - and vast numbers fail to indicate, even when it's mandatory! We'd be better off re-educating a large number of current drivers to get them to understand basic road rules, instead of swapping to driving on the opposite side of the road! Besides, the cost to the nation of a swap to driving on the right is unaffordable, and the gains are insignificant in comparison to the cost.

Here's a webpage with plenty of useful aircraft engine cooling tips. It pays to cover all the areas mentioned, and look for potential problems. Checking the accuracy of your temperature-measuring instruments is important. Engine Cooling Tips WWW.EAA.ORG Experimental Aircraft Association

It took 78 years for Perth Airport to get a railway line to the terminals. Guildford Aerodrome was built as an RAAF airbase in 1942, and commercial aircraft were only grudgingly allowed to operate from it from 1944, due to airline complaints that Maylands Aerodrome was totally unsuited for the increasing level of commercial use, and the increasing size of commercial aircraft. Guildford aerodrome wasn't renamed to Perth Airport until 1952, and the first train ran to Perth Airport only in 2022.

Fit an electric fan to boost airflow. All long-life, reliable air-cooled engines have cooling fans of some sort. Even Briggs and Stratton and Honda garden equipment engines utilise a flywheel-driven fan. It always amazes me that both conventional aircraft engines and air-cooled motorcycle engines have no forced air cooling. Radials are the only exception, they have basic forced air cooling system.

Stop this talk right now, about asking disappointed Americans to come to Australia! Do we really want a massive uncontrolled level of refugees arriving here, in any form of transport, from America? 😄

Small engines such as lawnmowers and garden equipment should never use petrol with any level of ethanol in it. The reason being, they virtually all use gravity feed fuel systems, and this encourages the ethanol to separate. Ethanol evaporates from carburettor bowls rapidly, and leaves petroleum fuel varnish and gums that clog up fuel systems. Most carburettors don't contain ethanol resistant gaskets, seals, or other flexible components. In a modern (post year 2000) fuel injected engine, designed to run on an ethanol blend with fuel system components made from synthethic polymers and ethanol-resistant plastics, and where a high pressure fuel pump is fitted, and the fuel is often recirculated when running, a 10% level of ethanol works just fine.

......that if the rabbit skins had been treated with disagreeable-flavour tannins, then the fox problem wouldn't have occurred. Others in the AUF said that injuring lovely foxes was abhorrent and constituted animal cruelty, and would lead to picketing of the AUF HQ by the Fox Rescuers and Animal Liberationists. CT was heard to mutter under his breath that he'd like to deal with Fox Rescuers and Animal Liberationists just like he dealt with rabbits around YGDG (DG Internationational, in case you're not up with all the latest ICAO codes) - and that was viciously, from an aerial position of strength, and with a 12g, 2-3/4" chamber SxS Tonolini, and a box of BB's, thus instilling............

To find out just how much he cheats at golf? Donald Trump and golf: Fancy resorts, A-list partners, cheating at highest level WWW.PALMBEACHPOST.COM 'Trump doesn’t just cheat at golf,' Rick Reilly wrote in a tell-all book. 'He throws it, boots it, and moves it. He lies about his lies.'

.....job of how to ensure the correct fur length for rabbit skins used for wing, tailplane and fuselage cladding, because fur that's too long only gives foxes the mouth-watering dribbles, and will result in the aircraft being ambushed by foxes on takeoff, resulting in some dramatic control movements designed to shake off foxes hanging off aforesaid components, and thus leading to...........

Apparently it's an American name to those who fall between ultralight pilots and having a fully-fledged PPL. Becoming a Sport Pilot — Step by Step | EAA WWW.EAA.ORG Learn how to become a sport pilot, where you can enjoy recreational flying for you and a friend and with no medical certificate required.

The way the aircraft was bouncing around on final looked like enough reason to do a go-around to me. But what would I know, I wasn't there, and who knows what pressure the pilot was under. He probably thought a cabin fire was going to break out any minute, and it was imperative to get on the ground.