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  1. FlyBoy1960
    an old flying school instructor once told me if you are going to land on clay pans or on beaches to take a decent sized rock with you about the size of a tennis ball. fly over your intended landing area and throw the rock out the window. If it skips several times then you are safe to land, if it disappears, you will to !
  2. FlyBoy1960
    it was because a board member from Victoria who is no longer a board member sent an email saying he was going to nominate and then didn't send in the required information package for several weeks after the deadline. He then send in the required information package and was told he could not stand because he did not meet the requirements of the Constitution and the Companies act. He then raced off to court and it cost RA-Aus an undisclosed amount to seek legal advice. It doesn't matter now because this member is no longer on the board but it shows the fragility of the system somebody can take the association to court and cost a lot of money to the membership.
  3. FlyBoy1960
    it looked like they were trying to get rid of some naughty board member to me so I rang up you got an explanation and the 2nd email gave additional information. Basically, it is only aligning the Constitution we the companies act. Nothing to see here, move along
  4. FlyBoy1960
    I will try and find the video I came across when they were trying to promote it. Everything originally was in Greece but some of the video was taken in Italy, but I may be getting mixed up with a similar aircraft.
  5. FlyBoy1960
    From memory most of it is fabric over an aluminium tube frame
  6. FlyBoy1960
    interesting concept and I have seen the video of the aircraft flying, it is going flat out at about 95 kn and the drone of the two-stoke engine doesn't do it any favours. I could not work out how you got into the aircraft. The cabin is so far off the ground and the wing is in a bad place it is looking impossible to get into and out of the aircraft. They did not show the pilot getting him on the video
  7. FlyBoy1960
    mmm, how would you know this Beaver Expert ?
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    until

    Please add the date to the title
  9. FlyBoy1960
    the cheap ones are crap and barely do the job. mil spec doesn't mean everything you think it does. Sure it gives you specifications for what the tool or product is meant to do but it also refers to other specifications like operations and use. A cheap one may last 1000 crimps where the one indicated may last 100,000 crimps. You get what you pay for with everything in life. I paid nothing for my first wife and I got nothing in return
  10. FlyBoy1960
    it was just reported on another website that the exact location that the aircraft started its descent yesterday into an airport before landing is exactly the same spot that today it went into a vertical dive. Sounds like they screwed up something with the programming of the flight and it went from 29,000 feet to ground level based on a flight it did the previous day. Of course I'm not an expert on this on just repeating what it said somewhere else.
  11. FlyBoy1960
    Bert Floods are in Melbourne and sell Shell products
  12. FlyBoy1960
    me spell cheka is in me brane
  13. FlyBoy1960
    You can actually buy some purpose made nipples that screw into the rim, much better than a self tapper. Used in trials bikes for years
  14. FlyBoy1960
    Sorry i can't resist. Because the engine has stopped ? or The only reason they saw you was from the trail of white smoke
  15. FlyBoy1960
    If it's Beringer then its really good. I have been very fortunate to meet Claire the owner of the aviation part of the company and the products they make are absolutely world leading. Head and shoulders above any other product on the marketplace and I guess this is why they have so much of the market now. Anything that Beringer makes is going to be first class, fully engineered and reliable for dozens of years. I have no financial interest in them just an honest opinion from looking at their products in detail and actually seeing them on aircraft at our airfield
  16. FlyBoy1960
    Half the runway goes underwater very, very quickly and this does not give you enough length get airborne in anything but a true STOL aircraft. The grass itself is really spongy and holds you to the ground. Like the other poster said, by the time you get a couple of inches the runway is flooded so then you can forget it. The hangars are probably 3 m above the normal flood level but on days like we have just seen there is not much choice but to have a floatplane
  17. FlyBoy1960
    there were 3 or 4 aircraft in photos from the airfield yesterday. They could not have moved them out because the runway was partially flooded. I suspect there are going to be many more aircraft destroyed at this airfield. Perhaps the others have floated away.
  18. FlyBoy1960
    the "clear coat" as you call it is just the resin, if you're looking the other photos you will see it has been sanded back so it can accept paint and it now has the matt finish
  19. FlyBoy1960
    its all over the news and pprune and Facebook
  20. FlyBoy1960
    Yes
  21. FlyBoy1960
    The Hanuman model is the way to go, much bigger, faster etc.
  22. FlyBoy1960
    X-Air new about $35,000 Hanuman new with 912 is about $55,000 Ninja new with 912 is about $70,000 There is also the Bushcat with 912 for around $75,000 Disclaimer: Pricing is all from memory
  23. FlyBoy1960
    What about an X-Air or X-Air Hanuman ? More modern than the Drifter and Thruster. Also maybe the Ninja as well ?
  24. FlyBoy1960
    You wont fit the Sapphire
  25. FlyBoy1960
    it is made it all the way back from Western Australia where it was for sale so it must have done okay then
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