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pmccarthy1

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  1. NOx injection is available for road registered sports cars if you want. I know someone who had it in a Mazda MX3.
  2. You get the same orange fumes from nitrous explosives. Nitrous oxides in air react to form nitric acid, very bad to breathe in. So I think this would be banned outside Russia.
  3. It looks like it contains a liquid. Might it be warm water, for warmth? Or was he carrying vodka? ?
  4. Four Aussies training to be pilots in the Empire Training Scheme, Canada 1942.
  5. Tullamarine airport, 1968 before it opened. (Hope I didn't already post this)
  6. I speak FORTRAN 4 on theWatfor compiler.
  7. and had its cockpit in the right place.
  8. A friend was once bothered by a kid on a trail bike outside his back fence. He asked me whether a .22 bullet could set off a petrol tank explosion. When I asked why he said "because I'm going to take pot shots at the little b.... but I don't want to kill him".
  9. It is amazing, and he is now working on the "motorcycle" version. Imagine 10,000 stormtroopers coming over the hill on these things!
  10. I flew into Stockholm and Copenhagen last week as a passenger and saw two airports that had windrows of something across them to prevent use. I can't remember quite where they were. I suspect that they are unused military fields that can be quickly reinstated by a front end loader if the neighbours get restless.
  11. My grandfather used to cut up old mine shafts and sell them to farmers for post holes.
  12. I have been known to murder a beer on a hot day.
  13. Cut the dog open? The chip is usually in its ear. This is not a common or garden pilot. Maybe a pirate? Was his name Frederick?
  14. Pilots who do things that cause death then immediately regret what they have done are very rare. Most do not survive to the regret stage. He should be studied forensically.
  15. We never had a billy cart. Had to slide along on our b$ms. Steered by weight shift.
  16. A centipede fell off my bathroom wall once. He needed one hundred feet to recover.
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