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Thruster88 - I've examined the NSW Fire & Rescue video in detail, on a full screen, and I can't see any damage to the underside of the fuselage, where it has fractured - as one would expect, if the fuselage was the first part of the aircraft to hit the roof. The fuselage fracture is vertical, not horizontal, and this leads me to the conclusion that the damage was caused by severe and rapid rotation around the stuck nose gear - rather than impact with the roof, which one would expect would create a horizontal fracture.

Yep, I'm SURE! 😄

I can't see any fuselage hit on the roof of the hangar, so I'd have to disagree with that scenario. What I can see, is two deep wheel grooves in the roof sheeting, the port groove is much deeper than the starboard groove. What I would say happened, is he came in fairly level longitudinally, but with a slight bank to port - the main wheels grooved the roof sheeting as they ran across it - and the nose wheel then dug in, and penetrated the roof sheeting, bringing the aircraft to a rapid halt. But the rapid halt was accompanied by a severe rotation anti-clockwise, around the dug-in nose wheel - and this rapid and severe rotation would've snapped the fuselage, as it rotated rapidly. Check out the Cessna landing more gently in the tree! I rest my case, M'Lud!

There are RC aircraft as big as that Hummelbird!

Printing magazines is a recipe to lose vast amounts of money in todays digital age - especially when you're catering to a membership that is looking for cheap flying costs, and low-cost membership fees. Add in a relatively low number of the members actually keenly interested in a magazine (as well as low total market numbers) and I'm surprised that RA-Aus would still produce a magazine. Magazines are part entertainment and part informative, and they require a serious level of contributor and editing input. The magazine market is still saturated, and there's vastly less magazines now, than before the pandemic.

Robinson claim 2 pilots and up to 8 pax for the R88. They're obviously not considering the body weight of the average American! And only 2 rotors? Looks to me, like regular modifications or upgrades will be on the cards.

This exercise reminds me of the old bloke crashing his Cessna into a big tree in Connecticut in 2017. He stalled into the tree, the tree acted like an aircraft carrier arrestor - he rotated 180° during the arrest, and the aircraft flopped right way up into a car park. He suffered only minor injuries. https://www.wkbw.com/news/small-plane-crashes-into-tree-pilot-survives-with-minor-injuries

The site may be wanting to download a PDF file, but you have selected a personal correspondence file to upload to this site. I'd suggest you remove it, in case scammers easily acquire your personal and finance details.

.....chop suey, chow mein, won tons and dumplings. However, when pointed, direct questions were asked, as regards the fillings and meat portions in Lee Won Turbin's dishes, he claimed it was a "commercial secret", and if he ever told anyone, he'd have to kill them afterwards, to stop his competitors from gaining an advantage over him. "What competitors?" asked Ghengis. "I slaughtered them all! There's no-one left to compete with you!" Lee Won started sweating. The innuendo was obvious. If he failed to reveal the fillings and meat portions origins, Ghengis would slaughter him, too. Lee had to think fast. He said, "I wasn't going to tell you this, but...............

I guess it's all well and good if the aircraft manages to stay on the runway, too - but even a moderate runway excursion with an over-run, would see the aircraft miss the safety bed completely.

They don't give you a lot of room, when you're pulling into one of those multi-storey aircraft parks, hey?

.....so much, that Turbo in his AGM address, claimed sales were "going like a cut cat!" A few shareholders objected to Turbo using the term, pointing out, it reflected badly on cat farming. But Turbo soon had them......

The NTSB Preliminary Report is out, and it basically only outlines the aircraft movements, flight paths, collision damage and other pertinent facts related to the crash. There are excellent CVR and FDR records from both the helicopter and the CRJ-700. There is NTSB concern over the accuracy of altitude data from the Multi-Purpose Flight Recorder ("MPFR") in the helicopter, and they are currently unsure how this affected other helicopter altitude measuring systems, until further investigation is carried out. The MPFR is a combined CVR and FDR. In addition, the audio record from the helicopter indicates portions of radio transmissions were not recorded (or heard) - in one case, because the helicopter microphone was keyed when ATC transmission was taking place, and in another section, the word "circling" in the ATC advisory transmission was not picked up by the helicopter recorder, but it is recorded on the CRJ-700 CVR, and on ATC audio recordings. At the time of the reports release, the NTSB issued an urgent recommendations report, advising immediate steps to be taken, to ensure a major reduction in the level of civilian aircraft and helicopter near-misses, that had been regularly reported in the region, in recent years. The recommendations report outlines how the helicopter route ("Route 4") along the Potomac River has lax boundaries, and even slight deviation from that poorly-defined route, poses an unacceptably high risk of an MAC with departing or arriving civilian aircraft, that are using the airport runways - especially as flight path altitudes of arriving or departing civilian aircraft over the River, can also have some altitude variations, according to how closely the aircraft is following the glide path or takeoff path. The NTSB advise that the FAA urgently needs to close the helicopter route ("Route 4") along the Potomac River whilst civilian aircraft are departing or arriving at the airport runways. However, they also recommend that an alternative helicopter route must be found, to ensure that important Govt, medical, law enforcement, air defense, or presidential transport, can continue at will, and at short notice. At present there is a NOTAM (active to 31st March, 2025), that prohibits helicopter traffic along the Potomac in the vicinity of DCA flight paths - but that NOTAM also advises that if urgent medical, law enforcement, air defense or Presidential helicopter movement needs to take place along the Potomac River, civilian aircraft will not be allowed to operate along the airport flight paths, until the helicopter has transited the critical zone. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA25MA108 Prelim.pdf https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AIR2501.pdf

Peter, you have attached personal correspondence to your post instead of the NTSB report.

......a reasonably satisfactory address to live at, despite the smells that occasionally wafted in from the Turbine Inc Skunk farm. Yes, dear NES readers, you may be completely unaware that the Turbine Family fortune started with Josiah Turbine, and his Skunk Farm. Many are possibly unaware that skunk furs are the finest furs available for haute couture, and they were in huge demand in Abe's era. Josiah saw that it was easier to farm skunks, than try to gather pelts from other species in the wild, so it wasn't long before his business was one of the largest in Gettysburg. Naturally, having to deal with the skunks spray from their anal glands was something that had to be figured out, and it was unfortunate that the foul-smelling liquid had a tendency to cling to the owner and employees alike. Thus, a term came into regular use in the U.S., "smells like a Turbine skunk farm to me" - and term was frequently used to describe something that was decidedly..............

......find I'm enjoying doing all this screeching whenever I sight a divvy van". Turbo had learnt the art of screeching like a cockatoo when he was quite young, and his Uncle Rastus Turbine owned a huge sulphur-crested cockatoo that screeched on an industrial level. Turbo became fascinated with the bird, and practiced the birds screech until his screech couldn't be distinguished between..........

Ahh, give it a break, Skippy - you need treatment for your Aspergers Syndrome. You're the original, "One Note Charlie".

Skippy, you're wrong. At no stage did the offender get into the aircraft. The flight attendant stopped him at the door, and the video clearly shows the shearer holding the offender in a chokehold - IN the doorway of the aircraft. Only after crew and pax went through his tool bags did the shearer THROW him, face-down onto the aircraft floor.

Despite Skippys feral hatred of the ASIC card, you have to admit it worked in this case. The offender tried to get aboard the flight, claiming that he was there to do maintenance, but he couldn't present an ASIC card, when the flight attendant asked to see it. No doubt the attendant realised pretty quickly he was no LAME. At that refusal, he got agitated, and the shearer and the pilot stepped in. He didn't get on board, and the flight didn't depart with him on board, so all's well. I think the main gripe should be about the cost of an ASIC card, it should not cost what is being charged.

......keeping up Turbo's egg supply from her carefully-nurtured chooks. Interestingly, Turbo's addiction to eggs extended further than just eating them, and growing long silky hair - as a true entrepreneur, he decided to invest substantially in egg production facilities, in the firm belief that it would create a nation of long-haired beautiful creatures. (Footnote: This dream of Turbo's has failed, as noted by the number of bald heads and ugly fizzoggs in any group of older males - but he still dreams, anyway). Accordingly, in the same vein, Turbo considered that because it took so long to eat four eggs, there was a need for bigger eggs, so one didn't have to mess with breaking and cooking lots of small eggs. This came to a head when Turbo received a batch of bantam eggs, and spent a whole hour just trying to get a feed from them. So, Turbo went to the bird where the eggs were biggest - Emus. Turbo set about getting a vast daily supply of emu eggs, as he'd heard that one emu egg was worth 24 normal hen eggs. The job of rounding up enough emus fell to a trusted employee of Turbo Corporation Inc, one Billy Cokebottle. Billy promised he could deliver on Turbo's order for 1,000 emus by the end of the month. But when the end of the month came, and no emus had arrived, Turbo set out to find Billy Cokebottle. He finally found him, asleep under a tree. Turbo raged..............

So, this is great news! We now have Officeworks Aerospace, as an additional supplier for aviation products, along with Bunnings Aerospace? 😄

Litespeed, why wouldn't you sail North (or South), earlier, out of the cyclones reach?

I'm trying to figure out how this bloke evaded airline/airport security to get to the aircraft door with a shotgun and knives? It appears he dressed up as an airport worker/tradie and he must have cut the fence somewhere, and walked or sprinted across the tarmac to reach the aircraft door?

But do you honestly think watching that video would have dissuaded Matt Farrell from taking off in his Jabiru that fateful morning? By all reports, he was the personality type who would've watched the video, and said, "I'm too smart, for that to happen to me! - only idiots crash aircraft!" - and he still would've taken off.

Tell that to the people who've been bitten by snakes! A farmer client was walking around one of his paddocks, picking up stray rocks and roots in preparation for seeding. He reached down amongst rye grass plants about 300mm high to pick up a stray mallee root, and a dugite lunged out and bit him! He was extremely wary of any long grass after that episode! He said he never even saw the snake, it just "came out of nowhere".