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I use Plastic Fusion, they claim to be the original super glue. This stuff is made in the U.S., and is a two-pack epoxy, and it has high strength and is extremely durable. https://www.gluesaustralia.com.au/the-original-super-glue-10-minute-fast-setting-pla However Plastic Fusion won't glue Polypropylene or Polyurethane or ABS resins, the "hard to glue" plastics. For PP, PU and ABS, I use JB Weld "Plastic Bonder". This stuff is also a 2-pack epoxy, and it's the greatest adhesive I've come across for these difficult-to-bond materials. https://www.jbweld.com/product/j-b-plastic-bonder-syringe

Link to the ABC article below; https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-11/paraglider-crash-victoria-colac-west/103453210

I'm only 3 months away from my 75th birthday and I consider myself still pretty fit for my age. However, I injured my left shoulder in Sept 2022 (incurring an inflamed bursar, by skylarking and not acting my age - I dived left-shoulder first onto what I thought was going to be a soft landing, and unfortunately I landed on hard ground - lesson learnt). As a result of visiting my local surgical practice, the first doc (a Chinese woman) picked up my BP was 200/100. She went ballistic, exclaiming I was at immediate risk of dropping dead or having a major stroke. I explained that maybe some of the reasons behind the high BP was, (a) I was in screaming agony from the damaged shoulder, and didn't have any idea of what damage I'd done to it - (b) I'd lost about 3 nights sleep due to excruciating pain, and (c) I was in a doctors surgery, a well-known reason for increased BP. I had previously never had any reason to worry about my BP, although I knew it had been slowly increasing over recent years - but was still within the right range for my age. However, I hadn't had a BP check for about 4 years prior to the shoulder injury, largely thanks to COVID restrictions. This woman doctor virtually refused to listen to me, and put me on an enzyme blocker (ACE inhibitor), which apparently soften arteries and veins. Somewhat surprisingly to me, they work, and they have no side effects that I've noticed. In the meantimes, after some ultrasounds that determined the shoulder damage was largely torn ligaments and soft tissue damage, plus the inflamed bursar, I got a steroid injection into the bursar which reduced the pain and the shoulder healed quite well after about 6 mths. I couldn't take the woman doctors rather abrasive attitude, so in early 2023, I moved to another male Australian doctor in the same surgery, for ongoing treatment and check-ups. This bloke was a fitness merchant, he was 56, in fine-looking shape - although he had a nasty-looking arterial bulge in his temple that I regularly felt like raising a discussion with him about it - but I didn't. An arterial bulge like that on my body, would have made me greatly concerned - but I guessed, as a doc, he knew all about it, and any potential problems associated with it (likelihood of other arterial problems), so I never brought it up. But just 3 mths after I started seeing him, and with another appointment scheduled for one morning last May, I was all set to leave home, when I received an SMS from the surgery. It went "Dear Mr OT - we have to advise you that your appt with Dr X this morning will have to be cancelled, as we have just received information that he has passed away early this morning". It turned out that this bloke had gone for his daily early morning jog around a large local park, and had dropped dead on the spot (at age 56), with passers-by unable to revive him. Maybe I should've raised the subject of that nasty arterial bulge on his temple with him! Incidentally, my BP at my check-up yesterday was 136/74, pretty normal for people my age, apparently.

Maybe the designers of the ASML Aero machine, also have plans for a high-tech, cheap ejection seat, for their product?

Micus - There's enormous environmental pressure on authorities and Govts to remove 2 stroke engines from general use, thanks to their polluting exhaust emissions profile. BRP ceasing manufacturing 2 stroke Evinrude outboards in 2020. Other 2 stroke engine manufacturers have been reducing their 2 stroke engine emissions by adopting the likes of direct injection. Carburettor 2 stroke production globally, is tailing off very rapidly, as pressure to reduce emissions, bites in every area of engine use. I found this reference (below) online that may be useful to you, so I would suggest you contact Transport Canada or the ECCC or your EPA to find out how long you've got left, to purchase and use 2 stroke engines. It will only be a few years. In December, your Environment Minister released the Canadian EPA plan whereby production and importation of gasoline engines in vehicles into Canada, is projected to cease in 2035. That initially sounds like a long time away, but it's only 11 years. "Authority to regulate emissions from internal combustion engines in Canada rests with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Transport Canada. Under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999 (CEPA 1999), Environment Canada has the authority to regulate emissions from on-road engines, as well as from most categories of off-road engines. Authority to regulate emissions from aircraft, railway locomotives and commercial marine vessels remains with Transport Canada. Regulations have been adopted to control emissions of criteria air contaminants (CAC) as well as greenhouse gases (GHG)."

You're entitled to see all your medical history and doctors opinions, as well as all your blood test results. A lot of people fail to ask for this information, but a lot of docs treat it as a secret they have to keep.

........his only character flaw is a seething hatred of bunnies, with the very sight of cottontails turning him from a mild-mannered aerobatic jock, into a red-necked, foamy-mouthed aviation terror, straight out of the finest Quentin Tarantino movie, dealing sudden death with explosive ordnance onto any naive and unsuspecting........

It's a dinosaur. 2 strokes are being outlawed everywhere, and many manufacturers are ceasing production of them, so if you buy a Simonini 2 stroke, you may find it will either be illegal to import it, or it will have restrictions placed on its use in the near future. At the very best, you may find that you'll be purchasing amongst the last of the Simonini 2 stroke line, and when you go to get parts for it, you'll find you're the owner of an obsolete orphan.

Well, the extract below shows up the precise problem associated with the event - a disconnect between docs feeding new medications to patients without being cluey enough to ask what types of driving, machinery operating, or flying were likely to be done by the patient. A cluey doc would ensure that anyone given these drugs would have major restrictions placed on the patients driving, machinery operating, and flying activities. Many drugs administered come with warnings about how they may affect your skills in all those afore-mentioned areas, and at the very least, the doc should have notified the aviation authorities. "Toxicology testing performed by the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Forensic Sciences laboratory detected amlodipine and propafenone in the pilot’s heart blood and liver tissue. Propafenone is used to treat life-threatening irregular heartbeats; the medication itself can cause a new irregular heartbeat and increase the risk of death. The use of propafenone would require FAA review and approval."

.......and making the resident rabbits flee in horror - because they all know, that at the sight of any ultralight, it's liable to be bristling with armaments that are going to rain death down on them, worse than any Luftwaffe Junkers over London in 1942 - and of all the ultralights, the one they fear the most is the one from Darraweit Guim, which is.......

Phil, how long is it going to take, to get one from Jabiru?

.....into a big pile of shrubbery (the only shrubbery of that height in the entire country) and this broke their fall admirably. The whole group walked out of the shrubbery to confront the Ferris Wheel operator - who upon sighting them, thought they were ghosts and fled, screaming in fear and crying out for supplication from Allah. At that point, Turbo realised he could now take over the ownership and operation of the Ferris Wheel, and add another useful business to his Afghan portfolio. However, he now needed another Ferris Wheel operator, as he was too busy himself, what with dealing with Taliban negotiators, organising to free his numerous friends from jail, and arranging multiple bribes to governors, public servants, police, and border guards. There was a need to find an operator urgently, as the Ferris Wheel queue was growing rapidly (mostly because a large number of assembled Afghans thought a ride on it, was a way out the country), so Turbo looked around and spotted........

......aching muscles to ensure they totally relaxed - and this unusual technique and odd use of Castrol R, brought forth a substantial number of inquiries, especially from the large and imposing........

I'd be scared of that thing starting to hop!!

Matt Wrights problems compounded today when NT WorkSafe laid additional charges (in addition to the current Police charges) relating to unsafe work practices in his helicopter operations, that are related to the death of Chris Wilson. From the news article; “NT WorkSafe has charged commercial helicopter company Helibrook Pty Ltd and company director Mr Matthew Nicholas Wright, with breaches of the Northern Territory’s work health and safety laws over their failures to maintain safe aircraft and allowing the aircraft to be operated when unsafe,” a spokesperson said. “While the exact cause of the helicopter crash has not been determined by any regulatory agency, and there is insufficient evidence to establish a prima facie case to lay charges in relation to the crash at this point in time, NT WorkSafe’s investigation has found sufficient evidence to allege Helibrook Pty Ltd and Mr Wright engaged in conduct intended to falsify the actual number of flight hours accrued by the aircraft in the Helibrook fleet, over an extended period of time.” NT WorkSafe said this included interfering with the Hobbs Meters, which records the time an aircraft is in use, and not accurately recording flight times in the aircraft’s maintenance release, which is a key document to the safe operation of an aircraft. https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/court-justice/outback-wrangler-star-matt-wright-charged-with-reckless-conduct-over-crash-that-killed-co-star-chris-wilson-c-13513208

.........the Turbo Bluebird took off like a JATO-assisted C-130 (overdue avref), surprising all the Commonwhore and Foolcon drivers. Naturally, the Bluebird was being driven by the Great Turbo himself, this is where he got his WreckFlyin name and reputation from. He wrecked many a Bluebird on the track before he decided trucking and flying was safer, where he went on to wreck many trucks, and many aircraft, in the same manner as he wrecked Bluebirds. Through it all, Turbo always stepped out of every wreck with barely a scratch, and this led to many believing this was all due to his relaxed attitude at the controls, greatly assisted by the effects of the Castrol R fumes, plus a generous dose of..............

The important thing with your health is to ensure you have regular medical checkups to establish patterns. Many people place great emphasis on regular servicing of their aircraft, cars and other machinery - but fail to establish regular checks on the machine that drives them. A good GP is all you need, see him/her every 3 to 5 years, and establish any pattern in increased blood pressure, cholesterol, and any other risk factors. Get regular blood tests done, this is the same as oil sampling, you establish the pattern of results, and watch for any increases in pertinent factors that provide warning of potential trouble. Ask plenty of questions about results, a lot of docs need to be prodded. Many people that keel over from cardio problems often show little outward signs of cardio problems, and regularly have no family history of cardio problems. It's not a bragging point to say you've never seen a doctor in 10 or 20 years.

.......early warning systems that pick up.........

Flyboy1960, the load on the diesel loco engine driving the generator does alter substantially with increasing railway line gradients. Facthunter is correct, when full electrical draw is required from the generator, the diesel engine really loads up and starts barking. The power draw requirements of the traction motors is only modest on level ground, but it goes up massively on gradients with a loaded train. Get a listen to some of the locomotive videos on YooToob of the big locos pulling freight trains up long gradients in the U.S. with a full consist or rake, those big V16's are really barking. I used to work on a minesite in the mid-1970's where the mine winder was run by a 1000KVA genset run by a big 1600HP V16 Dorman engine. When the winder driver starting pulling up a full skip of ore, that big old V16 would pull down and bark under maximum load, like nothing I've heard before or since. When the skip stopped at the ore bin on the surface, you could hear the big Dorman ease off in load substantially. Generator output load can be huge, it will pull engines right down. I had a number of minesite camp generators, they were 15KVA single phase Dunlites powered by 3 cyl Ruston diesels. One day we got a dead short in the main power cable of one genset, and current fed back into the generator. The electrical short pulled that Ruston, running at 1500RPM, down to a dead stop, in about 3-4 seconds! I wouldn't have believed a shorted generator could provide such a massive braking effect, until I heard it with my own ears.

I would place competency behind the controls as a far higher priority than any medical. After all, how many aircraft have fallen out of the sky because the pilot died at the controls. Not exactly a statistically important figure. But a far bigger number of aircraft have fallen out of the sky simply because the pilot lacked competency in controlling the aircraft or in flight planning.

Heating will not significantly damage the integrity of the metal, exhaust systems often glow a dull red with high power outputs.

......then gravitated to Tasmania, and it seriously affected bulls thought patterns, typing ability, and proof reading abilities - and which gas made him even more incoherent than he normally was. Poor old bull had forgotten there were 835 pages of the NES, and he'd started off reading Page 1 all over again, thus leading the NES readers to start scratching their............

Make up a cardboard template for the curves you need, and go visit a good local exhaust fabrication business. Exhaust tubing must be mandrel bent, the exhaust tubing bending machines are dedicated machines for the job. Stainless steel is best for the application, but joins must be welded carefully with the correct electrode or wire. The stainless exhaust pipe is pretty thin.

I find it interesting that all the PL Insurance information is related to business activities. I have found nothing relating to individual, or simply recreational activities, that result in injury or damage to other parties. Every Insurance company site discusses your business operations, and nothing else. I wonder how many recreational fliers are running their aircraft as a business? I find most legal firms sites are all about acquiring adequate compensation for personal injuries, thus indicating that's where the real money is. They go for the insurance companies as they know they have the funds available. The bottom line is you have to indulge in negligent and grossly unsafe behaviour to be found responsible for others losses and injuries. That must be difficult to prove in many cases where innocent unintentional actions caused losses and injuries. https://publicliabilityinsurance.com.au/what-is-public-liability-insurance/

Most Google Earth aerial photos come from cameras mounted in commercial aircraft, but some photos also come from satellites. https://support.google.com/earth/answer/6327779?hl=en#zippy=%2Csatellite-aerial-images%2Chistorical-images