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(OT notices that Cappy has failed to ID the big bloke trying to beat Hilary to the BRB - he should've advised all the NES readers, that it's actually Turbo.....) ......ensure that it OT couldn't reset the WO, instead. Meantimes, bull was seen running away, with a message on the back of his T-shirt, that read.........

There would need to be an unacceptable impost on RAA members to cover the cost of RAA-run aircraft crash investigations and subsequent reports. It cannot be justified. The bottom line is the telling Coronial witness evidence given in the email written by Iain Clarke (page 50 and 51 of the Coroners report). Iain Clarke describes Matthew Farrell as an accident looking for a place to happen, with a brash and arrogant attitude that he knew everything, better than anyone else. The question remains as to whether the RAA pilot training syllabus needs to be modified to weed out people who suffer major personality defects, that makes them unsuitable for pilot training. It should be noted that the commercial pilot of the Metroliner that crashed at Lockhart River managed to escape detection, as highly unsuitable for commercial flight operations, due to his personality defects.

......all breathe easy, and not risk world annihilation!! "NO!", cried Turbo, retreating further from the advancing and threatening figure, which figure was truly terrifying to Turbo. "This Briefcase with the Big Red Button, is my only protection now!! I'll only give this briefcase up if you stop advancing, and tell me who you really are!?" OT stopped advancing, pulled off his Patton face mask, and grinned widely. Turbo promptly fainted and collapsed, and OT promptly rushed forward and picked up the Briefcase with the Big Red Button, holding it high in triumph. "Look at this!!" he said, "Now I've got the Briefcase with the Big Red Button, and I'm going to...........

The ATSB released their initial report into the crash yesterday. Indications are the primary causes of the crash were:- 1. Marginal conditions for takeoff 2. A decision by the pilot to alter the normal takeoff track to a more Easterly direction, instead of the regular Southerly takeoff direction (likely due to rough water N of the takeoff zone) 3. Taking off into a strong quartering wind, which was possibly on the limits for the aircraft type The ATSB reports the aircraft lifted off at 57kts in a nose-high attitude, which seems to point to the pilot trying to get airborne urgently. The right wing dipped, then the left wing dropped in an aerodynamic stall, within 5 seconds from lifting off the ocean surface. All the indications are, from Cessna 208 floatplane performance figures, that the aircraft really needed another 10 kts airspeed to avoid stalling on takeoff. https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/news-items/2025/atsb-releases-rottnest-island-floatplane-accident-preliminary-report https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2025/report/ao-2025-001 I was surprised to find out how new the Cessna was, it had only done a little over 1100 hrs TT, and it was a 2016 build, so flight performance should have been very close to "as new" flight performance.

And the same bloke probably assembles Zhonsen engines (or Zongsheng, or whatever name it is, this month), in his off-hours, when he's not scaring bus passengers out of their wits!

....throwing off her burka as often as she could, which resulted in practically all the blokes losing interest in her straight away, once they could see what she really looked like. But OT was made of sterner stuff, and knew that looks weren't everything, and especially when Shirley's Dad held a 4% shareholding in Saudi Aramco. It was just so easy to utilise Shirley to find out when the next OPEC meeting was going to held, and by how much the oil price was going to be ramped up. As a result of this valuable information, OT bought up a sizeable volume of oil futures, and when the..........

Skippy, let me know when you find a comprehensive service manual, written and illustrated in excellent English, for your Chinese manufactured product - which product has continued to use the same brand name and logo for 30, 40 or 50 years - and maybe then I'll change my mind.

You can very quickly find the reputation and standing of Chinese manufactured products in the used equipment market. I deal with vast amounts of industrial equipment, everything from tractors, to forklifts, to gensets, to electric motors, to pumps, to workshop equipment. The Chinese products turn up in auction yards by the truckload - broken down, suffering from catastrophic failures, suffering from bad design, suffering from quality failures, and suffering from a lack of support and parts, that stops them from being rapidly repaired and put back into use. They bring low prices at auction, as against "brand name" Western or Japanese products that are highly sought after by purchasers looking for viable used equipment. Even the Chinese built, "Western brand name" products fail far more quickly than the Western-built products. Chinese-built Cummins engines ventilate blocks fairly regularly with conrods. Stamford and Le Roy alternators made in China regularly turn up used, with "fried" electrical or electronic components - and often at low hours. It's well known that all the Chinese electronic genset control panels have a reliability rate that makes East German Trabants look like the pinnacle of reliability. The Chinese still have a fair way to go, to establish durability and reliability, in their manufactured products.

The principles correct name is the "désaxé Principle" and it can be designed into an engine via crankshaft offset of the cylinder bores, or by gudgeon (wrist) pin offset. To produce a simple comparison, imagine a bicycle crank. When the pedal is at 12:00 o'clock, it's hard to start pedalling. When the crank is at 1:00 o'clock, it's a lot easier to start pedalling, because the angle of the pressure stroke has improved. The désaxé Principle was known about in the earliest era of steam engines, and the word is not a particular Frenchmans name, it is a French word that translates loosely as "nutcase", or "off-centre". So it refers to the conrods positioning at the start of the power stroke. No offset in either bores or gudgeon placement in the piston results in "cold idle clatter" as the piston rocks in the bore with excessive clearance, prior to becoming fully warmed up. Henry Ford insisted that his first V8 automotive engine in his 1932 cars, was to have piston offset, to improve performance. Jabiru probably erred seriously in using VN Commodore pistons in an aircraft engine, as GM's (or GMH's) aims would be based around far different requirements to Jabirus aims, with cost-savings and ease of manufacture being GM's major priorities. But the cost of designing and manufacturing specialised pistons for the Jabiru engines would more than likely have been far too expensive for Jabiru, with the relatively low production numbers required.

The words "product quality and product support" are not compatible with Chinese-built products. The Chinese totally fail to understand Western countries mindset, as regards the requirements for build quality, traceable manufacturing points, manuals that are well written in accurate English, parts supply that is guaranteed, and adequate factory backing. The Chinese fail to understand the principles behind the Western "name brand and image", whereby a manufacturer establishes their name, their company image, and their logo, firmly in buyers minds and backs it with complete customer support. The Chinese are happy to indulge in regular name and brand changes, manufacturing being done in numerous unrelated factories, that all have different aims, and levels of build quality. There is a vast reliance on ISO 9002 amongst the Chinese manufacturers as gold recognition some kind of Western build quality standard. Not a lot of people understand that ISO 9002 (since replaced by ISO 9001:2015) still doesn't guarantee Western build quality - the standard merely ensures there's a written paper trail covering manufacturing processes. ISO standards do not guarantee that employees have the necessary skills and training to carry out their technically skilled jobs. We all know that the Chinese happily reposition peasants, from fields into factories as a standard process for continued employment or compensation for their agricultural land being taken for manufacturing. We know that many of these peasants have little by way of manufacturing training and skills, they're used for "simple assembly tasks" - but "simple assembly tasks" in factories require skills and mechanical insight, that many Chinese peasants lack. Until Chinese industry comes to terms with Western processes and training skills levels, and a complete understanding of what Western buyers basic needs are, as regards durability and complete customer support, they will always come second in the build quality and reliability stakes.

I was under the impression that the core aim of all pilot training, is to avoid panic when upsets occur, and to avoid the ensuing disastrous mistakes, that panic would bring about.

You're confusing insurance policies with a coronial inquiry. Telling lies to a coroner does not affect insurance payouts. The original mistake was issuing an RPC against CASA requirements. That was not a criminal act in itself, it was misinterpretation or error, which is covered under the policy holders insurance. The problems started when a cover-up was initiated to hide the error or misinterpretation of the regulations.

Blueadventures, I have never found a product yet where the manufacturers warranty applies from installation date. It always applies from purchase date. It's false economy to keep perishable components on a shelf, on the basis they "might be required one day". Murphys Law says the day you pull that part down from the shelf to use it, after having stored it for some time, you find the item is U/S because of aging. 6 mths is the maximum you should store parts/components that contain perishable constituents.

Not necessarily a true and correct statement. Public Liability insurance covers negligence of the policy holder. Insurance payouts may be refused, only if criminal acts are found to have occurred, or false declarations were made by the policy holder when the policy was issued.

Another similar one on eBay, with similar hand-etched markings. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266636543203 And another one below that was recently sold, with the description stating the hand-etched numbers are a "store reference" number. https://www.oldnautibits.com/stock_php/infopage.php?catalogue=AIT&stocknumber=6635&frompage=share

The referral for potential legal action by the DPP, by the Coroner in this Mt Beauty case, is to see whether the actions of one particular member of the board of RA-Aus indulged in criminal behaviour that warrants charges and a trial. The DPP has to consider the merits of the case, and whether there is any chance of success. A referral to the DPP does not necessarily mean charges will be laid. The courts are full at the best of times, and the merits of the case need to be weighed, as to its outcome, and whether it's in the public interest and benefit. IF a charge (or charges) are proceeded with, and a case mounted and the defendant is found guilty, then the costs and penalties would normally be borne only by the defendant, not the organisation he/she works for. I would expect that for the outcome of any legal decision that lays blame and costs and penalties on the entire organisation, then the prosecution would have to prove that there was a concerted and planned effort by the entire board (or a majority of the board) to indulge in criminal or obstructive behaviour that impeded a coronial inquiry. In my personal opinion, I struggle to see how the entire RA-Aus organisation could be held accountable for the actions of one board member, if that board member is found guilty of criminal behaviour.

It could've come from one of the RAAF's Hawker Demons? They crashed on a regular basis in the 1930's, the RR Kestrel appears to have been somewhat unreliable. Interestingly, the Demons had Kestrel engines that came with engine serial numbers that started with a K, followed by 4 numbers. http://adf-serials.com.au/CMS/index.php/raaf2/2a1

eBay Aviation Supplies is your friend for this kind of stuff! 😄 https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw=electrical+pin+tools

He's stuck in reverse gear!! 😄

.......the origins of the Chiko Roll. Now, the standard story, promoted by the mainstream media, is that the Chiko Roll was invented by Frank McEncroe, a boilermaker from Bendigo. Nothing could be further from the truth, because the mainstream media all believe that the origin of all truth, only comes the Eastern States - when the people of Western Australia know full well, that the East Coasters lie through their teeth constantly. The Truth behind the invention of the Chiko Roll, is that it was invented in Western Australia and copied by Frank McEncroe when he made a rare trip West, and tasted a genuine original Chiko Roll. The Chiko Roll was invented on a cold Winters night, by a famous relative of OT's, one Augustus Fulltrack, who ran a large food van in the downtown area of Norseman, catering to hungry, tired, long-haul truckies, who had no choice in that long ago era, but to keep their slow, gutless, rough-riding old International and Dodge trucks, with their heavily-tarped 34 foot semi-trailers, rolling across the endless miles of the Nullarbor Plain, and the more dreary parts of South Australia, to keep the dreadful products from the factories of the East, continuing to flow to the West. The worst of those products of the East Coast factories would have been Tom Piper Steak & Onions in a can. It was the staple fall-back emergency meal when the food cupboard was bare - and it was the staple meal of "tinned dog" for all those East-West truckies. One cold Norseman night, a tired and hungry truckie called into Augustus Fulltracks' food van, and said to him, "Mate, can you knock up something that tastes half-decent, and which doesn't taste like Tom Piper Steak & Onions? I can taste nothing but Tom Piper Steak & Onions, day and night, and I'm so heartily sick of it!!" So, Augustus, being a resourceful type of bloke - as are all the Track family - rummaged around and found a cabbage in reasonable condition, along with an onion and a stick of celery that wasn't mouldy - plus a bit of leftover mince that was only hours away from walking out of the fridge by itself - and Augustus then found a tray of batter that he'd been experimenting with, for increased strength and texture, and easy handling - and within 10 minutes, Augustus had produced the food wonder now known worldwide, as the Chiko Roll. When the truckie bit into it, he said, "This tastes great, what's it called?" - and Augustus, ever a quick-thinker, said "Chiko Roll", naming it after the local layabout known as "Chiko", who resided against the wall of Norseman's Railway Hotel day after day, with his swag roll. No-one knew where Chiko came from, or how he got his name - but everyone, from far and wide, knew about Chiko, and regularly handed him spare change to keep him going. Chiko survived on leftovers from Augustus' food van, so he always remained pretty healthy. However, there came the day when.............

The big fire burning the fuselage would help me take a lot bigger steps away from the wreckage! I'm amazed the fuselage stayed in one piece, kudos to the CRJ designers.

.....frozen chiko rolls together, and he watched in great concern as the broken pieces rolled across the floor, giving him.........

Never try to paint anything without a sealed paint booth. One mosquito or fly can do an enormous amount of damage to a fresh paint job. You can buy cheap inflatable Chinese paint booths that are good value. Use plenty of thinner and lay down several very thin coats, waiting a few seconds between coats for the first coat to go tacky. Use premium grade paints, they're worth the extra money. If using two-pack, make sure you use the exact ratio of hardener, that the hardener is fresh, and ensure you have, and use, an airwash hood. The ingredients of two-pack paints are potent carcinogens. The temperature when you paint is crucial, never less than 15°, and never more than 35°. Finally, keep your paint and hardener in the workshop fridge, so it lasts longer (and make sure you mark it properly, so there's no confusion!).

It's not "direct facial recognition" with all the cameras, they merely take good footage of you - and the footage can be made available to police, for inquiries related to criminal investigations. Any private video or camera footage cannot be demanded or be forced on the spot to be handed over to authorities, but orders can be made for police to have access to it, for crime solving purposes. If you are in a "public place", you can be photographed or videoed. But you cannot be videoed or photographed if you are in a "private place" and have an expectation that there is no intrusion by others. Thus, there are no cameras in toilets - but there ARE cameras in the areas/passageways leading up to toilet doors. The only direct facial recognition that is Govt sanctioned and in use, is when you step through that passport ID recognition setup in airports. THAT system DEFINITELY involves facial recognition and it checks against your face on your passport photo. But, be aware that cameras today have very good resolution, they are mounted by the hundreds along major roads, and at traffic lights - they're mounted in parks, city open spaces, cafes and restaurants - in shops - and in speed cameras, and in mobile phone use cameras. The images can be zoomed in on for clear identification, so keep legal! Here's a story to give you a chuckle, showing that the systems still have large holes. Stepdaughters partner had the loan of one of my Hilux utes for a few weeks, while his Falcon was being repaired after a bingle. He was snapped by a speed camera just past the top of Greenmount Hill on the Gt Eastern Hwy, at around 8:00PM. He got the "bluey" for a $100 speeding fine in the mail a few weeks later (he was only a few kms/hr over the 80kmh limit) - but the part that made his eyeballs bulge, was - the photo showed his face VERY clearly - and it also VERY clearly showed him yapping away on his mobile phone!! He paid the $100 fine very promptly, before someone in the traffic fines dept, woke up to the fact that they'd missed an opportunity to lob a $1000 mobile phone use fine on him!! 😄

In the wheatbelt, it's compulsory to have a fire trailer and pump with a minimum of 1000 litres on hand, if you want to do any angle grinding or cutting of steel anywhere - even on a bare industrial block in a townsite.