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  1. FlyBoy1960
    Delmar DH20 was meant to be used for medical evacuations where you could put a patient lying down on the back along with a medic. Could fold down for transport one of the big features but the "aircraft" never went into production. I remember this because it was recently used in an e-vtoll presentation showing how far we have come but also remained the same. I think this was in the mid-to late 60s
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    A biplane that flies a little close to the underneath of a bridge ?
  3. FlyBoy1960
    German by the rego so i guess a Bucker Bu 131 Jungmann but not 100% sure
  4. FlyBoy1960
    What's a cheque ?
  5. FlyBoy1960
    that is a very ugly plane. Huge wingspan at 75 feet doesn't make it ideal for turning around on agricultural strips ? Also not much difference in the performance speeds. Stall 58 kn, Cruise 76 kn to 89 kn. Hardly a real big gap In cruise speed to stall speed. probably a good idea to have be relegated too museums. Thank you for bringing us another very interesting and unique aircraft
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    Radios

    FlyBoy1960 replied to extralite's topic in Thruster

    Found them, the range is just so NARROW it will cook most radios at either end of the frequency range. Mobile 1 Ground plane independent VHF aerial system
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    Radios

    FlyBoy1960 replied to extralite's topic in Thruster

    Sorry but these aerials are really TERRIBLE. I have the RF plots somewhere.
  8. FlyBoy1960
    Could be because they are flying over the mountain that they suddenly get into huge up winds travelling up the mountain that exceed the G limits of the trike ? that's what it looks like to me and if it is the 2nd time at the same place it would reinforce that there is meteorological involvement
  9. FlyBoy1960
    You are kidding ? There are probably more 4-stroke Rotax powered planes flying with IFA and CS prop's than fixed, especially in the past 15 years.
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    Test pilot for what ? I am sure you will get a little bit more interest if you mention the type of aircraft ?
  11. FlyBoy1960
    The same happened to a young Japanese paraglidder pilot who was flying out near Manila in New South Wales. The temperatures were close to 40° and they found her frozen body 24-hours later apparently still rockhard except for the thin layer of skin which had thawed out.
  12. FlyBoy1960
    was driving home yesterday afternoon and grabbed this photograph looking towards the east. This is a cloud out over the ocean just off the Gold Coast. Pretty powerful activity going on, the photograph doesn't really do it justice
  13. FlyBoy1960
    looks like there is more to the personalities here then we know about. He said, she said, they said, they thought they said ?
  14. FlyBoy1960
    Made the news without much fanfare and wild claims which was nice.
  15. FlyBoy1960
    it has been known for a while that they are sourcing engines new at retail prices, they are purchasing used engines with low hours from aircraft accidents and in some cases engines are even being stolen from aircraft. This has been public for about 4 years
  16. FlyBoy1960
    We all get deceived sometimes, mine was when I married a petite young girl with a really pretty smile. The only time I see her teeth now is when she is trying to bite me !
  17. FlyBoy1960
    WOW that's ugly/strange ? it's amazing how you become so used to a particular shape that when you see a change it looks so bizarre. It is obviously a short fuselage version as well
  18. FlyBoy1960
    https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/man-injured-in-nsw-hunter-plane-crash/ar-AA132h7G?cvid=b82b02c7462644c48c2e449c901ce70c
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    Its access is blocked when you look
  20. FlyBoy1960
    apparently Rylstone have a couple of bunks set up for visitors and people transiting through the area that can't get over the hill into the Sydney basin because of weather around Mount Victoria and the closed airspace around Williamstown/Richmond. They are also happy to take you in town where there are dozens of accommodation options
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    what if you open the largest snap vents facing into the wind ? they quite happily pressurize the cockpit. I wouldn't have a clue if it isn't enough however to stop carbon monoxide but it is a lot of wind and if you open and close the vents it can make your ears pop if you do it quick enough.
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    Mudgee Aero Club is another, Rylstone is another. Heck Field has lost its accommodation a few years ago. O think Boonah has something
  23. FlyBoy1960
    it may go out the exhaust pipe properly if it is perfectly intact, but a lot of the two-stroke engines crack where the manifold exits the engine due to vibration but hey, what would I know, thousands of hours in trikes in the early days. I guess you are saying practical experience doesn't apply in the circumstances
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    quite easily in fact, when you're sitting in front of the trike you are creating a huge vacuum behind you as well as the vacuum in the front cowling. This vacuum can pull fumes through the back skirt from the engine area. In my thousands of hours of trike flying I could smell fuel just after takeoff when I would overfill the tank for a big adventure and on one day I could actually smell coolant, looked behind me and there was a leak! Even though you don't think it is possible, it is possible !
  25. FlyBoy1960
    Ears would be my guess, probably fluid in there. Get it checked out, also prednisolone/predsolone under script will help dry out the canals
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