BoxFat Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Just wondering if anyone else saw and said "WTF ??" (or similar) when watching the SBS (Perth) documentary called "Plane Crash" last night. It was about the experimental controlled crash of a Boeing 727, which American and British researchers were flying by radio control from a chase plane. The first chaser was a Cessna 337 and a tad too slow for the job. They illustrated the problems this caused with a computer simulation..in which the chase plane became a Jabiru 160 registered 24-4544 !! The only explanation I can think of is that whoever made the simulation delved at random into their library of "light aircraft" and came up with the Jab. Any other ideas ? The video can be seen on SBS on-demand at http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/31461955716/Plane-Crash until 24th June. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octave Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Just wondering if anyone else saw and said "WTF ??" (or similar) when watching the SBS (Perth) documentary called "Plane Crash" last night. It was about the experimental controlled crash of a Boeing 727, which American and British researchers were flying by radio control from a chase plane. The first chaser was a Cessna 337 and a tad too slow for the job. They illustrated the problems this caused with a computer simulation..in which the chase plane became a Jabiru 160 registered 24-4544 !! The only explanation I can think of is that whoever made the simulation delved at random into their library of "light aircraft" and came up with the Jab. Any other ideas ? The video can be seen on SBS on-demand at http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/31461955716/Plane-Crash until 24th June. yep sure did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxFat Posted June 11, 2013 Author Share Posted June 11, 2013 If it was purely random then gee I wish that was my plane rego..I would dine out on that for years. Who owns Jabiru 24-4544 ?? (registered in 2006) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Escadrille Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Can a Jabby somewhere actually cruise at 142+ kts.... I know mine can't, but it just shows that they are internationally accepted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingVizsla Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Did a google search - see photos here - looks like Tas Aero Club. http://www1.airliners.net/search/photo.search?cx=partner-pub-8297169501225184%3Aa05n2n-tzky&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=24-4544&sa=Submit&search_active=1&search=&sheadline=&search_field=datedesc&submit=&siteurl=www1.airliners.net%2Fphoto%2FTasmanian-Aero-Club%2FJabiru-J160%2F1076060%2F%26sid%3D6706e4d74f584636e4b3b6caaa90f8c1&ref=www1.airliners.net%2Fsearch%2Fphoto.search%3Faircraft_genericsearch%3DJabiru%26distinct_entry%3Dtrue%26sort_order%3Dphoto_id%2Bdesc%26page%3D41%26page_limit%3D15%26sid%3D6706e4d74f584636e4b3b6caaa90f8c1&ss=2091j864521j7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 good experiment I thought. highlighted a few things that would help if one was involved in an accident like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rankamateur Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Did a google search - see photos here - looks like Tas Aero Club.http://www1.airliners.net/search/photo.search?cx=partner-pub-8297169501225184:a05n2n-tzky&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=24-4544&sa=Submit&search_active=1&search=&sheadline=&search_field=datedesc&submit=&siteurl=www1.airliners.net/photo/Tasmanian-Aero-Club/Jabiru-J160/1076060/&sid=6706e4d74f584636e4b3b6caaa90f8c1&ref=www1.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=Jabiru&distinct_entry=true&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page=41&page_limit=15&sid=6706e4d74f584636e4b3b6caaa90f8c1&ss=2091j864521j7 Five years on it has dropped it's pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarly Gnu Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 All the high-tech sensors and gear, I wonder why they relied on a hobby plane controller with a stock antenna? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friarpuk Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 I saw it too! But 50 metres on the RC gear. My JR gear years ago had at least a couple of kms range! Never the less it was a good doco. And I wouldn't mind a flight in the chase plane, not the Cessna but the turbo prop but only after the pump was fixed. Imagine everyone jumping out of the 727 and then the chase plane blowing up from the seal blowing on the fuel pump. Hmmmm largest out of control RC ever seen! Yipe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballpoint 246niner Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 I saw it too! But 50 metres on the RC gear. My JR gear years ago had at least a couple of kms range! Never the less it was a good doco. And I wouldn't mind a flight in the chase plane, not the Cessna but the turbo prop but only after the pump was fixed.Imagine everyone jumping out of the 727 and then the chase plane blowing up from the seal blowing on the fuel pump. Hmmmm largest out of control RC ever seen! Yipe! Got to ask FriarPUk - you must be related to my Puk(Graham) ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballpoint 246niner Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Got to ask FriarPUk - you must be related to my Puk(Graham) ?? I meant my mate here at Caboolture... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Got to ask FriarPUk - you must be related to my Puk(Graham) ?? I was wondering that as well Graham sent me on my very first aircraft solo flight in a drifter, a while back at Boonah. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friarpuk Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I have not met Graham. Spoke to him via the forum. Will see him around the traps one day I suspect. And I also suspect that we do come from the same linage although we are not closely related. There are not a lot of Pukallus folk in Australia and we all come from the same crew who came out to Australia from Germany in the 1850's or thereabouts. My crew all come from the Darling Downs, first nr Crows Nest but now Toowoomba, Dalby, Norwin etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayavner Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Geez so how do you log that flight time... let's see... left seat of a C337, but the right seat is flying, but you're controlling a B727... "ummm.... simulator. yeah." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabiru7252 Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Holy Moly!!! I typed my rego number into that Airline website and MY plane showed up! http://www1.airliners.net/photo/Jabiru-J170/1767357/&sid=d3d02d35589889b86ffde3fdb86a28e8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxFat Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 Yebbut Yebbut Yebutttt.... I just wanna know how an Aussie Jab end up as the star in that video ?? Surely can't be just random can it ? Has anyone told the good people at Bundaberg that their little creation can keep up with a 727 ?? By the way, no connection but a Jab SP has just been stolen from Northam airfield over here in WA...police investigation proceeding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabiru7252 Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Maybe the owner of the jab just can't find it? I did that with my car at a crowded shopping centre once. No news reports of any planes being nicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxFat Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 Haha..yeah we've all done that. It was in the West Australian yesterday: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/17579858/plane-missing-at-ground-level/ It's also on the RA website. It's such an unusual thing that it's a wonder it hasn't appeared in the press over east (or in the news thread here). It worries me a bit because I can't think of any sensible reason, financial gain or otherwise, why one would steal a Jabiru from a hangar (which had other aircraft in it). In the absence of any "sensible" reason to want to steal a light aircraft one then starts to think of "non-sensible" reasons...and THAT quickly becomes scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayavner Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 maybe it was the quickest way to get a set of thru bolts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rankamateur Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Haha..yeah we've all done that.It was in the West Australian yesterday: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/17579858/plane-missing-at-ground-level/ It's also on the RA website. It's such an unusual thing that it's a wonder it hasn't appeared in the press over east (or in the news thread here). It worries me a bit because I can't think of any sensible reason, financial gain or otherwise, why one would steal a Jabiru from a hangar (which had other aircraft in it). In the absence of any "sensible" reason to want to steal a light aircraft one then starts to think of "non-sensible" reasons...and THAT quickly becomes scary. What is scary, that someone would steal a Jabiru when they had a choice, what else was in the hangar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Escadrille Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 O verrrry drolll RANK amateur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxFat Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 Dunno (what else was in there). Maybe the same Jab that appears in the mysterious video and apparently belongs to the Tassie Aero Club. My personal belief is that when they find the Jab they will also find Elvis. And Harold Holt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabiru7252 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Now I have an image of a clown flying a Jab into a building while shouting "Alla Akbar!" then seeing this crumpled Jab stuck on the side of the building like a bug smashed on a windscreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeptic36 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Yebbut Yebbut Yebutttt.... I just wanna know how an Aussie Jab end up as the star in that video ?? Surely can't be just random can it ? . Surely you have noticed the apple laptops featured prominently in movies, or the can of coke sitting up in the window of the coaches box at the footy. This was clearly a case of clever product placement by the guys at Bunduberg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabiru7252 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I think Coke and Apple etc. pay big bucks to have their products featured in movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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