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....he will join the few other still-living, world-famous aviators, for a celebratory dinner at the Gumly RSL hall. The problem for the dinner organisers is what to put on the menu for choices, as Nobu's favourite, Sashimi, has recently been banned from importation after the release of a million tonnes of radioactive water from the Fukushima power plant. Further to that was the concern that Nobu has yet to learn the proper use of a knife and fork, and always prefers chopsticks, thus leading to great concern amongst the dinner organisers, as they planned to put savoury mince and mashed spuds on the dinner menu, and this will cause great consternation amongst the chopstick users amongst the invited guests, many of whom are........

.....the wings of the Drifter disappeared from his upper arm, every time he clenched his fist and swivelled it. However, he was able to entertain a lot of girls and boys with his "wings disappearing" tattoo trick, which made for..........

....who also had trouble identifying which cutlery item to use, and in which order, any time a formal dinner was held to celebrate another.......

Skippy - I'll put the link up again, as you obviously missed it. A Risen, piloted by Alberto Rodolfo Porto, claimed a record 323kmh in 2015, powered by a 912 Rotax - and it's recognised by the FAI. https://www.fai.org/record/17912?type=node&id=24616

You definitely need to try harder, Skippy .... https://www.fai.org/record/17912?type=node&id=24616 All the latest FAI Microlight and Paramotor record claims .... https://www.fai.org/page/cima-records

Skippy, have you searched the FAI Table of Records? https://www.fai.org/records

Photoshop, and a pretty bad photoshop at that. You can see where the cockpit has been at the nose, they could've at least rounded off the fuselage! Eurofighter Typhoon, badly modified by a 16 yr old with a computer, and lots of time on his hands.

That looks suspiciously like a lube oil problem to me. Does the oil you're using have specific cam and lifter additive such as ZDDP? Zinc is being reduced or removed from current oils as the zinc and phosphate additives coat the precious metals in catalytic converters and damages their proper functioning.

I couldn't recommend any of those Horusdy tools. They brag their tools are "professional" quality. They're the finest low grade Chinese tool quality. I bought a set of their NPT thread taps, and they look like they were knocked up by the rice paddy planters during their Friday afternoon coffee break.

Oooh! It looks like he might be keen to develop the Jabiru fighter aircraft, with his track record! A Jabiru Jet?? https://scgroup-global.com/about-us/meet-the-team/michael-halloran/

....fix it to a volunteers head (volunteers were usually pushed to the front of the crowd), the volunteer would then stand in the centre of the runway, while Greg made a no-doors low pass at high speed, with a hockey stick in his right hand. Unfortunately for the occasional volunteer, the hockey stick routine didn't go exactly as planned, due to........

Why would Jabiru damage their own engine sales by offering a Rotax option? That would be a suicidal move for Jabiru, their margins on engine manufacture are probably already slim, and offering a Rotax would simply mean that Jabiru engine sales would plummet, and cost of Jabiru engine manufacture would rise, on a smaller number of engines produced. It's not like Jabiru engines are a dead loss.

Litespeed is somewhat right - it is an engine and a combination of part, hoses, etc, all piled together, that is not precisely what a BMW M Series twin turbo V8 actually looks like. But the reality is - the real thing definitely IS a nightmare of hoses, plastic crap, wiring, sensors and piping. And what's worse - they run big end bearings every 80,000 to 100,000 kms because they're producing around 700HP, and BMW engineers underestimated the bearing loads and bearing clearances needed. Yet the BMW fanbois still love 'em! Here's a bloke who happily fixed his buggered BMW M Series V8 by swapping in a complete replacement engine. I reckon his problems have only just started! Apparently the twin turbos mounted in the centre of the "V" simply concentrate massive levels of heat, and increase oil consumption. https://f10.m5post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1733004

They might be $500 each by the time they get to Moscow, what with all the current sanctions!

That little bloke in the cockpit has got an easy piloting job! - he just has to sit there, and the 'plane drives itself!

Looks to me like a bunch of Egyptian hippie surfers, holding up their surfboard, ready to catch a wave on the Nile! The surfboard's decorated with a snake image. You can see the surfboard leg rope on the far lower left of the carving.

.....you know a thing or two about popping stuff off, don't you? OT replied, "Mate, I didn't get this beret in an op shop, I earned it by popping off more rabbits than you've ever seen in your life! Here in the West, we've got Eastern States rabbits that mutated into fast breeding, hardy rabbits, that built bunkers and command posts and strongpoints, and started to shoot back! So we started courses in how to stalk and ambush these rabbits, and as a result, I proved my worth in rabbit kills, and was invited to join this crack team of Black Beret Rabbit Extermination Commando's, who meet regularly to........

.....and the rabbits there, are in unbelievable numbers, and it's a mecca for aerial bunny-poppers like CT! I want to do a wall mural about these bunny-popping aerial artists, 'cos I believe us artists need to stick together and support each other (and that includes the BS-artists like Cappy), so as a result, I need to find........

.....waltzed in to a "Welcome to Country" display, and a smoking ceremony - which pleased Cappy no end, as it was much more than his ancestor had received in 1770. It's matter of little-known fact, that when Capt James Cook had knocked off one of the local ganguuru's (just to see what it tasted like), and then refused to share the turtles with the Guugu Yimithirr, then all chances of a "Welcome to Country" ceremony went straight out the window. However, after a couple of major punch-ups with the Guugu Yimithirr, whereby one of the natives got shot up, and Cooky and his mob pinched some of the Guugu Yimithirr spears, there was a sort of "Welcome to Country" ceremony held at Reconciliation Point, whereby peace was made, the spears were returned, and Cooky and his mob agreed to share the turtles. All this family history was uppermost in Cappys mind as he faced the Welcome to Country and smoking ceremonies - fully expecting to be ushered in with great respect - but then - he was stopped at the door. "Hey bro", said one big black fella. "We reckon you owe us tree hunded and pifty bucks for the shows! And we only take cash! - but we could take a few cartons as well, if you haven't got the full tree hunded and pifty on you!" Cappy was appalled. This wasn't the adoration he was fully expecting. In fact, it was nothing more than a scam, and a huge rort, and he was being disrespected!! "Bro", said Cappy, adopting his best humbugging stance and mannerisms. "I ain't got no tree hunded and pifty bucks on me, right now - but if you care to lend me pive hunded bucks, I can reassure you, I'll repay the whole amount next dole payday, and if you...........

.....we only allow black fellas to do the searching up here! But you can't do a blackfella search at present, 'cos they're all out doing "Welcome to Country" performances. Besides, we can't waste black fellas on ordinary searches, our black fellas only specialise in searching for people lost in the bush, and things like that!" Dejected, Cappy left the Library in search of some worthwhile help. Within a short space of time, he found a group of black fellas clustered around a Pord Palcon that wouldn't go. He rocked up to the nearest black fella and said, "Hey, if I get this going for you, will you..........

......there'll be a huge beer bill being sent to the Cook families of today. When Cappy got his share of the beer bill, he went ballistic. "What the hell is this??", he exclaimed. "I don't recall giving Turbo any ability to run up a tab on my account at...........

Land Africa is a Portuguese-built (BRM Costruções Aeronáuticas) version of the Zenith CH 701. Chris Heintz considers the Land Africa aircraft an unauthorised copy of the CH 701. The Land Africa has a larger cabin than a Zenith CH 701. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRM_Land_Africa

You could've fooled me. Heart disease is still the biggest killer in Australia, and we are fatter as a nation, than at any time in our national history. Obesity is a national epidemic, and a lot of people still die long before retirement age - or shortly after.

Control lock problem? He went virtually straight up, that's not a normal takeoff climb rate.

.....the soup froze before you could get it to your mouth, straight from the stove! Cold!? You've never seen cold like it! It was so cold, we had to light fires under the barrels of the guns, and even then, there was still a chance the remnant ice would block the barrel!! And as for flying! - we had to light fires under the engines to try and start them, and use the fire axes to chop the ice off the wings! - and even then, you'd still.........