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danny_galaga

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  1. Eg, a millilitre of mercury compared to a millilitre of air. And put another way, what volume does a gram of mercury occupy, compared to a gram of air.
  2. That's quite neat 🙂. Mine just has green rectangles, but then again it's free software so I can't complain about that.
  3. Interestingly, the don't seem to be doing combat. They do seem to be doing a club speed class. Every club does their own thing. The idea is everyone builds the same plane, engines are standard. The class they devised is right up my alley. They used a modified plan of the Keil Kraft Phantom, which was originally a trainer from the 1940's. And run relatively modern standard .15 sized engines instead of 1940's .10 sized. I still have my OS .15 that dad bought me for my 12th birthday. It came with an Aeroflyte Cherokee. Model is long gone of course, but this club class racer would be a lovely use of my old engine 😊 Photos at the bottom of this link are from one of the planes at the club. Actually the same guy that made that aerobatic model . http://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=1397
  4. Australian design from 1967. Has a more modern Ukrainian engine in it. I think maybe a .60
  5. That's one of the few positives of living near a flight path.I see all the traffic coming in to brissie airport from my place. I'm not sure if I'm ever going to fly again so at least I can use this for plane spotting 🙂
  6. Oh, it's picking up flights now. But still gives me the same warning 🤔
  7. Thought I'd watch riverfire from home on my tablet, since who knows when I'll actually use this for navigating 😄 But it's been so long, I can't remember how to make it work. It used to be fairly automatic. Any ideas? Dunno if I'll get this sorted out in time. But theres always riverfire 2025...
  8. 😲 Amazing it stayed in place. I'm guessing the carrier went straight down rather than sliding in
  9. Whats the launch speed of a Corsair? Maybe 200 km/h? Barrel rolling into the drink at 200 km/h. Dunno. You'd cross your fingers for him, but...
  10. He probably died on impact 😔
  11. Only happens on android. It never seems to matter what I do in the editor, it always ends up sideways or upside down 😄. The exact same picture will appear the right way around on FB and other forums. Anyway, nice line-up eh?
  12. Thanks. This forum and one other I'm in always put my pics sideways. I gave up bothering trying to bend to their wills ages ago 😄
  13. I've gone a couple of times now. They have a fantastic venue. 3 circles. I'm going to join. My struggles with my stupid ultralight kit have left me hankering for something thats actually fun to do 🙂
  14. I know we've discussed this somewhere before, but what's the drama with using the motorcycle carbie kit? Isn't the carbie the same model? Using the same fuel?
  15. Thanks. Yes, I realised that with that last flight. No point continuing if it's not enjoyable. Will start again when I'm in a better frame of mind.
  16. Now you just need a PC with dos and a working floppy drive 😀
  17. I agree. My own training (sadly over a stupidly long period of time) was Piper Warrior at Darwin International, 3300 metre runway. Jumbos B52s and Concorde land there. Doing orbits while pairs of FA 18s take off. Training area at Delissaville, 1100 metre banana shaped dirt strip with right mostly right hand circuits. Then a huge break from flying. Then an hour or so of gliding at Caboolture, but I didn't like the long time just spent waiting around. Then convert to raaus in a Tecnam Golf at Boonah, grass strip with a hump and sloped. Also an hour or so in a Sling. Then Savage Cub for tailwheel endorsement. Then my instructor died in a crash in January and I've found it hard to get back into it. I know Dave wouldn't have wanted anyone to stop flying, and I wasnt specifically or consciously thinking about the crash when I flew the Savannah a few weeks ago. But there it is.
  18. Yep, he paid the ultimate price for his entitlement. Luckily no one else did as well...
  19. Regards this bone yard. It's always good practice to not destroy everything you have the moment it's surplus, because if you go straight into another conflict, you're on the back foot. Sadly, this is helping the Ruskies at the moment, as they have been pulling out surplus tanks to press into service as the Ukrainians destroy their current stock. Some of them have been in storage since the sixties! Clearly you wouldn't see that happen with aircraft, but waiting say five years before scrapping would be prudent.
  20. You'll never never know...
  21. Australia 😄
  22. I'm from there 🙂
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