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    There's still a lot of WW2 aircraft unaccounted for. The wing sweep doesn't look right, but maybe that's because the wings fractured at their roots as it hit the water. Maybe we need to get this bloke to find MH370, with his kind of tenacity.
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    It must be powered by a Junkers-Jumo 209 - that's why it's signwritten, "Wiesel".
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    Loctite 518 doesn't form globs, any excess protruding from the joined surfaces dissolves on contact with oil, and Loctite 518 retains a level of flexibility when set. Henkel describe Loctite 518 as "semi-flexible".
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    Loctite 518 is actually a superior product to Loctite 574 in the case of sealing crankcase halves. You can compare the two products - including the TDS's - on the Henkel-Loctite site. https://www.henkel-adhesives.com/au/en/product/gasketing-sealants/loctite_5180.html https://www.henkel-adhesives.com/cn/en/product/gasketing-sealants/loctite_5740.html
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    Two very large commercial airliners, one flying at 700kmh and the other travelling at 870kmh only took out around 3000 people on 11th Sept 2001, despite being loaded with 36,800 litres and 34,500 litres of Jet A-1 respectively - so I fail to understand how you could take out 5000 people with a single RA-Aus aircraft loaded with perhaps 100 litres of petrol at the very most, and unable to probably even reach 300 kmh, without the wings tearing off. It would be virtually impossible to take down any building with an RA-Aus aircraft. I fully understand the need for an ASIC card for commercial airline operational areas, but the ASIC card is over-reach for probably 80% of the aviation areas of the country. It's interesting to stop and think about the fact that all the terrorism attacks in aircraft around the world were carried out by people who had pilot training, piloting skills, and qualifications - not exactly your classic "raghead" terrorist.
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    ..........sniffing Albo's feet once too often and in inappropriate locations and at inappropriate times. The next thing, she was being accused of sniffing ar..........
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    ........and he said, "What exactly again, are we looking for here?" The minders decided they'd better occupy the media with some distraction to take the heat off Ambo, who was still struggling with getting a grip on the spade, so one of the minders said, "Did you see where the PM has just signed off on that new................
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    .........maybe even confuse Zelensky for Putin, as Joe just did. But then there was the questioning over the Ukrainian-Australian military deals, and just how much Ambo knew about the.............
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    .......food halls that infested his local suburbs. "The stuff they dish up is terrible", he exclaimed. "Their food is toxic, and it must be regarded as an underhand method of warfare against us! Why, only last night I had a feed of Chinese Hot Pot, and next morning, I couldn't get off the.........
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    As the original poster and question asker is based in FLORIDA, I'd have to opine that FAA rules apply to his aircraft.
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    ......even the rabbits and wombats weren't immune from the depredations of the CASA forces, as the forces multiplied with additional funding from the sale of rabbit and wombat furry toys and good luck tokens, at the duty free stores of DG International Airport, resulting in.....
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    Teenagers brains are still only half developed, as evidenced by their often stupid behaviour. They have fast reflexes, but are extraordinarily impulsive. In addition, they lack experience and maturity which better enables rapid assessment of impending danger. It's speculation, pure and simple, but the crash could have been caused by the teenager dropping his phone onto the floor of the aircraft and making a grab for it, or an extended attempt to recover it, and losing control right at a critical moment, when 100% attention was required for flying the aircraft.
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    A former farmer client of mine turned 103 last December, and he's still sprightly.
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    More media BS and headline-grabbing. No "flipping" involved, the aircraft crash landed on the water and lost a float, and all the pax were offloaded onto watercraft with no injuries.
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    .......suddenly, a very, very agitated wombat re-appeared, and this time it was making straight for the main doors of Darraweit Guim International Airport, causing a great deal of consternation for the owner, CT9000 - who in the finest local DG response to a threat, pulled out his trusty .22 bolt action Brno, aimed at the wombat (who was struggling to see properly due to the milk covering its face), fired, missed, and instead, hit........
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    .......POH are looking much alike - wrinkled, ragged-looking, seems to be always face-down, and it gives nothing away". Loxie replied, "that's right, I've been............
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    ........trying to read the POH at the same time as he was trying to remove the Wagga Wagga Draft bottle from the elevator - but every time he moved the........
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    A VW powered motorbike?? I guess he holds up traffic for kilometres, too?
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    GM long ago ceased building quality and reliability into their products, and I for one, wouldn't fly behind anything with a GM power unit up front.
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    The bottom line is the aero engine market is tiny, and offers no ability to mass produce to meet a mass market - so the established aero engine manufacturers effectively have it all sewn up.
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    It is a myth that Subaru car engines were designed for aircraft, and then installed in Subaru cars. Even Subaru don't make that claim. Foxconn made the claim on their website, but it's simply wrong. What Subaru DO say is, they used their extensive aeronautical and aircraft construction knowledge to build a better car engine. Fuji Heavy Industries, the former corporation that built Subaru engines and vehicles (now renamed Subaru Corporation), can trace its origins back to the Nakajima Aircraft Company, which was founded in 1918 and which famously built the engine for the Mitsubishi Zero - as well as a vast array of other Japanese pre-WW2 and WW2 aircraft and components. The Subaru car engines make a pretty average aircraft engine at the best of times - although many owners have made them work in aircraft. But the Subaru car engines are too small a displacement, they are too heavy, and full water-cooling works against them as well. In addition, they need a redrive gearbox, so that only adds to weight and complexity - and this also shows they were never designed to drive a prop.
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    .....who did the best doughnut burnout after skolling 11 cans of XXXX, straight. Despite the disappointing crowd response, Loxie tried once again with his story telling, yelling out, "and here we have the amazing technicolour d....." - but before he could go any further, he was cut off with a roar from the crowd, as they turned as one, fully expecting to see a huge technicolour yawn - but the expectant roar turned to an angry roar, as they all suddenly realised it wasn't a "biggest spew" competition, it was only some old geezer who looked like he was wearing a crocheted quilt, and who.............. (Dear NES'ers, OT takes his hat off to Cappy for inventing the winning "new word of the week", with his "Parsiphical" contribution, which must have taken some time, along with a dictionary and a thesaurus, to "dream" up.....)
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    In a 25 year period in the U.S. and Canada there were 350 people killed in twin-engine aircraft crashes. When one engine fails you not only have assymetric thrust to deal with, you also have vastly increased drag on side worsening the engine failure situation. At low level, an engine failure in a twin almost always has a worse outcome, than an engine failure in a single engine aircraft - four times the chance of being killed, according to an NTSB study in the 1970's. Plus, two engines is twice the mechanical complexity, and twice the fuel feed and fuel management complexity. A fair number of twins have gone down simply due to errors in fuel management.
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    You could easily spend a lot more than its worth trying to convert an engine designed specifically for a particular application to an application it wasn't ever designed for. And the bottom line is that the flat 4 and flat 6 engine design (and the radial) are inherently the very best design layout for aircraft engines - and there is no outboard that uses a flat engine design.
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    He was only 68, and he passed away on Christmas Eve. That's far too young to go, condolences to his wife and family. I wonder what will happen to the Wedgetail aircraft business now? https://www.facebook.com/dwyerfamilyfunerals/
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