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  1. Chrisso
    jpg 6 and 7 indicates that the wheels are form the front landing gear (nosewheel / NLG). They are actually from the main landing gear (MLG). The NLG has two wheels side by side, these clearly are a single wheel setup.
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    C130 Hercules and AP3 Orion aircraft Propellers when 'Feathered' minutely rotate backwards momentarily, this then operates a Brake Lock and the Propeller locks in that position.
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    Hi Maj, Actually the fifth pod goes under the LH wing, inboard of the #2 engine. I think one or more RAAF B707 could also carry a fifth engine. Cheers Chris
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    Just had a few PC problems - new motherboard etc.
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    Not really a 'Newbie' just had a few PC problems -new motherboard etc fitted
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    As a "Techo" I also flew a P3C Orion for about an hour whilst transitting from the USA to Hawaii. Oceanic Control wanted to know why we were not able to maintain the required altitude. Told them we were having 'Autopilot problems!!!, and they were okay with that.
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    Thanks for the video Deskpilot. We have been in contact before. My father worked on Shackleton's during his time in the RAF. He was with them in Aden, and St Mawgan as far as I know. He was also in the modification Team that put the RR Viper Engines into the MK3 Shackelton's outboard engine nacelle's to give them a bit more grunt.
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    Hi Dazza 38. To put the record straight, The original F111's came with TF30-P103 engines. The F111G's came with TF30-P107 engines. When the USAF phased out their F111's, the RAAF were offered a number of TF30-P109 engines from theUSAF fleet of various model F111's. When viewed from a couple of metres away both the P103 and P109 engines with their Afterburners (AB), fitted, are banana shaped - with only a few degrees out of wack from the 'Core' Engine with the AB fitted, whereas the F111G (P107's) were more in-line between the 'Core' and AB. To enable the F111C (and RF111C's), and F111G's to have a more common engine type, they modified the P109 core engine aft turbine section to be exchanged easily to accept either a P109 AB or a P107 AB and called it the TF30-P108. Cheers Chrisso
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    Surely of the seven people on board, one must have a mobile phone !! Even if they have landed successfully and are in a bad reception area, one must only walk about 100 metres or so to get a good signal. Here's hoping that all is well.
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    Some aircraft I have been involved with (mostly military), refer to it as the "Power Lever". When rigging engines they often refer to different settings as degrees or percentage of PLM (Power Lever Movement).
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    I agree with the pedantic spell checkers although I have noticed that J170 also hates acronyms. ROTFLMAO !!!
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    There are teachers, and then there are “Educators” An exclusive private school in Melbourne was recently faced with a unique problem. Some girls were beginning to use lipstick and put it on in the bathroom. They would then press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints. Every night the cleaner would remove them and the next day the girls would kiss the mirror again. Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the cleaner. She explained how difficult it was to clean the mirror every night. To demonstrate, she asked the cleaner to clean the mirror. He took out a long handled squeegee, and dipped it in one of the toilets and scrubbed the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror !!
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    This looked like a very short version of the Breguet Deux Pont but from the 'clue' given its a M.57 Aerovan - made by Miles aircraft.
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    Handled a C130 for the first time yesterday, marshalled him in. Got the crew in to load it today and they leave tomorrow, noisy APU!!!! Reminds me of my early days in the RAAF over in WA. Whilst on the Duty Crew at RAAF Pearce one weekend, we had a USN P3 Orion arrive with yours truly doing the marshalling. After correctly marshalling the Orion pilot to his spot I looked up and he had a full Gorilla Suit on and waved to me. Naturally I cracked up and saw the funny side of it. Unlike many aircraft, the pilot sits up quite high behind all the windscreens for better visibilty during patrols, and this made his suit far more visible to us on the ground. Chris
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    Reminds me of my early days in the RAAF over in WA. Whilst on the Duty Crew at RAAF Pearce one weekend, we had a USN P3 Orion arrive with yours truly doing the marshalling. After correctly marshalling the Orion pilot to his spot I looked up and he had a full Gorilla Suit on and waved to me. Naturally I cracked up and saw the funny side of it. Unlike many aircraft, the pilot sits up quite high behind all the windscreens for better visibilty during patrols, and this made his suit far more visible to us on the ground.
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    My guess is also a Britten Norman Islander. Where was the picture taken?
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    JT9 or JT3. Hey Bill the JT9D's were used on the Boeing 747. The 707's used mostly JT3's. The RAAF ones were when I was on them JT3D-3B's.
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    Funny thing though, when I was at Richmond on C130's they removed the external fuel tanks from a number of C130H aircraft as they found that the weight of the fuel (full tanks), and the drag, that the externals produced was just about the same as the amount of fuel they could carry. Once removed they flew slightly faster for the same distance needed. They also had better flying characteristics for the type of operations they were doing - low level ops/night low light ops etc etc.
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    Hey Maj, I hear that someone in Victoria is going to 'Try' to get an ex RAAF Mirage up and flying again. I saw it in a recent issue of 'Flightpath' magazine. It says that one of the only things missing is the Brake Chute. Now that will be a sight to see on the airshow scene.
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    This is pretty bad, and will cost the owner a packet to repair. My only doubt about this failure being caused by the Ash cloud is what about the other engine ???
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    Getting a bit off the topic here, but I have seen on many occasions (Paris Air Show/Farnborough Airshow), the Tornado demonstrating its capability to reverse -usually on the runway after a short landing - no doubt assisted by reverse thrust. Just for info, the Russian IL62 (russian version of the BAC VC10), has reverse thrust operating often at about 30' (very short final/s), before touch down!!! The pictures seen recently shows the 'Buckets' you are talking about fully selected at this point.
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    Quite a few Military and Civilian A/C can "Reverse". These range from: RAAF C17 Globemaster and AP3C Orion, RAF Tornado and Eurofighter. Civilian A/C (mostly airliners) can utilise reverse thrust in 'some' situations, ie reversing out from terminals, although they rarely do it as it can cause problems to those working in the vicinity. I believe that problems that limit the amount of reverse A/C use is mainly 'Hot Oil' and therefore low oil pressure, and of course FOD.
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    I have also just finished reading Vulcan 607, and have passed it to my father who is ex RAF (not on Vulcans though). Amazed that they had to go to SGT's Mess, Museum's and RAF Fire Training Dumps for parts needed for the mission. Agree that they writer did get some parts wrong. Also thought that one of the three Vulcans that were initially on the mission (as back ups), had to divert to Brazil as the refuelling probe broke off during transfer if fuel. But still worth the read.
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    Correct, but I think BRUTUS also had the hots for her. Was'nt she a bit skinny?
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    So why is it called a 'NEAR MISS' and not a 'NEAR HIT'? Its pretty obvious he nearly hit the other A/C, but thankfully did not, otherwise things would have been very different.
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