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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.........

As the original poster and question asker is based in FLORIDA, I'd have to opine that FAA rules apply to his aircraft.

......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.....

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.

A former farmer client of mine turned 103 last December, and he's still sprightly.

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.

.......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........

.......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............

........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........

A VW powered motorbike?? I guess he holds up traffic for kilometres, too?

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.

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.

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.

.....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.....)

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.

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.

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/

I didn't have a problem with Queen Elizabeth and the monarchy in her day, she carried herself well, and the vast majority of the Commonwealth supported her. Even during WW2, she elected to become a driver/mechanic, and got her hands dirty. She could have selected an honorary senior officer position and ponced around like a hero, but she chose to do the same ordinary job as many ordinary people did. However, I object to the huge "train" of hangers-on associated with the monarchy, and their largely idle lives with unearned income from many inherited assets.

Gee, that's a very generous attitude towards the Royals, from the forum resident Leftie, Nev! My argument is that the instructions from the Establishment, to Harrys superiors in the Forces, would be that they were to NEVER place him in a situation of high risk when in uniform, or their careers would be at an end. Meantimes, the rest of us plebs always simply had to run the gauntlet of ambushes, snipers, booby traps, mines, mortars, and artillery fire.

A legend in his own bathtime. Born into privilege and displays all the "entitled" attitude to privilege. And led along by one of the worlds most manipulative actresses, who thought she would get a privileged royal position by roping in a prince with the furry lariat. Who recalls his Dad almost writing off the BAE146 because he thought he knew how to fly better than any commoner Captain? Then the investigators turned around and blamed the Captain for letting him land it!

I rode with Turkish airlines about 10 years ago from Jakarta to Istanbul. The cabin crew were the unhappiest bunch I've ever encountered on any airline, ever. One steward was constantly seething with anger, he must have stewing over some mistreatment. The service was desultory, and the food was nothing to write home about. The Turkish Airlines aircraft are in pretty good shape and reasonably new, and they have a very large fleet. Sabiha Gocken airport is extremely modern and clean, and the Turks are quite efficient. Probably the saddest sight I've seen though, was a fully sealed smoking room in the airport, where flight and cabin crew from countries where smoking was still very prevalent, could puff away to their hearts content, and fill themselves up with nicotine before they made the dash to their destination. The room looked like it was on fire. I recall seeing one Russian Captain puffing away desperately in the room, he looked like a walking heart attack, red-faced and bloated. I would have been very reluctant to fly if I knew he was up front. We left Sabiha Gocken on an EgyptAir flight to Cairo. Now THAT was a hairy ride! Passengers ignoring seatbelt signs, walking around and swapping seats at all stages of the flight. The flight was 3 hrs late taking off, and when we did finally take off, I swear the Captain had the throttles firewalled from the start of the runway, to the start of the descent into Cairo. And Cairo Airport cannot be adequately described. Security was virtually non-existent, and there was a VIP lounge on the upper level, that was open to the air! - and open to all the flies!

You'll never find a search engine on a website that has even 10% of the search ability of Google Search, the logarithms they use are refined to the nth degree, and they're possibly using AI as well today.

Nev, if you want to find something on this site, use Google Search and the search term "recreational flying: xxxxxxxxx" (with "xxxxxxxx" being the subject item you're looking for). I did a Google Search this way using "Shvetsov M-11D" as the subject item, and this thread was the first hit in Google Search.

The rubber shortage caused by the Japs invading all the S.E. Asian nations that were the worlds primary rubber producers, even hit the Americans hard. The WW2 Japanese actions took out 97% of the worlds rubber production, and it was only the huge American effort poured into finding a rubber substitute - whereby they invented butyl rubber in 1943 - that actually prevented the Japs from making Allied war operations literally grind to a halt. Australia was hit so hard by the rubber shortage that the rubber scrap drives in WW2 nearly equated the size of the metal scrap drives. In a major reversal, near the Wars end, it was the Japs who were suffering a major rubber shortage, that affected their ability to wage war, as the Allies regained control of the rubber-producing regions. https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search?query=rubber+tyres&collection=true&facet_type=Photograph

I said nothing about "none of the operating crew had appropriate experience". It's obvious they were experienced. But what was lacking was disciplined planning, and a proper rehearsal of the interactions between the aircraft before they went out.