CT9000

4 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

......but that was too much for Cappy's stomach and so they decided to sub let the runway repairs to

Aroma Runways Inc. who had the expertise, filled main streets and also did the paperwork to rename them "Memorial Drive", which was a nice touch.

The following week CT dragged out his Electric Drifter.............

......charged up by the fumes from the rotting bodies........

14 hours ago, turboplanner said:

.....do it all again tomorrow when six black suited Calabrians, marched in heading for CT and CP.

CT passed a Haveock knife to CP under his coat; CP who was a dirty fighter underhanded it into the forst Calabrians guts,  then sprang forward grabbed the knife and underhanded it into the next Calabrian etc etc until there were no Calabrians left standing. "Care to dance? Cappy asked CT who had already started to back away........

.........maybe we need to slow down on the runway under fill a bit, decomposing bodies shrink a lot and will cause unstable levels in the runway surface. We will have to move the extras to the bunny processor plant, they won't change the taste much.......

......a notam has been issued for the Darraweit Guim regional airfield   ----18 / 36 closed for resurfacing works effective 0830z to 2300z ....

15 hours ago, turboplanner said:

fright, so they couldn't ne Russians. Cappy had  brainwave and shouted "Bushmaster!, Bushmaster!" and the Ukrainians laughed and said "Welomm Frrinds!, you got spare parts? And ..........

......turrets for Russian tanks, we have several hundred Russian tanks with the turrets blown off. they were used for a joint venture between Ukraine and Russia to send turrets to outer space. ........

The main problem with a sidevalve engine is that most of the combustion energy is expended trying to blow the head off the block rather than push the piston down the bore.

......a chicken salad to counter act the greasy burger he was about to consume.......

.......he had never seen a bloke roll a smoke with ammonia nitrate and a stubbie of diesel to wash it down........ 

......they realized that the Morry in the picture is a later model, a 1000.  The split window model is a 850 side valve.  Setting a match to an 850 is cause for celebration so it now time for a drink.........

4 hours ago, onetrack said:

.....which then drew a gasp of horror from Cappy, which was misunderstood by the others on board, to be a last gasp of a PIC who suddenly realised he couldn't......

.....really live without Tim Tams any longer and then spotted the pickup car which was .................wait for it....................a Nissan engined split window Morry Minor coming to greet them, very slowly of course because those old gearboxes don't rush.......    gearchange.........wait   ....      .........

....that drew blood....

.......Tim Tam jamming things ground to crumbs.......

.......all on board realized that they were out of Tim Tams and now all how hope may be lost......

....wide open. Now the checklist for spinning an aircraft. 1   Full back stick so it stalls, check

                                                                                              2  Full throttle to keep the rotation going,  check

                                                                                              3  Rudder into spin,  check

                                                                                              4  Aileron opposite down going wing,  check

Should be ok to keep it spinning now. As everyone knows that spinning an aircraft may reduce the rate of decent a bit.....

......elevator so could no longer hold full back stick,  how on earth could he keep in in a spin? .....

......coughed and spluttered before stopping dead. The unfortunate pilot having failed to manage a flight plan now worked out that the fuel endurance of 180 minuets was fairly close to three hours....... 

4 hours ago, turboplanner said:

............but sure enough before the Harleys got close enough to do any damage he heard that familiar crunch of pistons imploding, the ping of valve heads hitting exhaust pipe, as one by one a hundred Harleys faltered and died, leaving their leader, slightly overweight, hair strands hanging down from his German WW2 helmet, "Easy Rider" stickers on the sides, and patched as "Hells Angels" which never fooled anyone. It was Cappy, rather red-faced now he was alone, a bit embarrassed, and ................

......trying to think up a reason for selling off kero as avgas to these poor misguided motorists that were sucked into the cheap fuel price......

I do not feel the least bit guilty burning up the nations precious oil reserves, after all there is no point leaving it for our kids 'cause they will probably only waste it.

48 minutes ago, onetrack said:

......grinned from ear to ear. This was more like the real country life he enjoyed. He opened the gun cabinet, and carefully inspected all 28 firearms he owned, stroking his chin while deep in thought.

There must be some way he could mount at least 17 of the weapons on his Drifter, to end up with it looking like a miniature XB-40 - something the rabbits would squeal in terror at, the instant they sighted it, let alone feel the flying lead coming from it, as CT dive-bombed every rabbit burrow, or every group of constantly-fornicating rabbits he spotted. Finally, he knew what he was going to do. He set up......

.......the bomb release system for the percussion mortars on the undercart of the trusty Skyfox.   Then installed the interrupter from an old ww1 scout for the machine gun on the top cowl.  Plan in place now to drop mortars, frighten bunnies enough to stop fornicating  to allow time to strafe the area then sell off the mining rights to recover the lead. ........

15 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

........and that's what CT did, no one knew he had a Reuger, and this blew the NES view of him as a shotgun person. Who knows, he may spend his summers in Europe assassinating people for the UN who are into that sort of thing.

Unlike the assassins who fire off 150 shots to kill four baddies in a movie, CT's shot put the missile just enough off track to head for ..................................

........anywhere he wanted due to the combination of the tele sight and the magnum ammo.......

6 hours ago, turboplanner said:

...............Annis Horibilis.

It was the ticking that woke CT up and simultaneously brought the shotgun to his shoulder. This rapid resonse from a dead sleep had accountd for many rabbits in the past as well as three pet cats.

Not many people know that you can put a missile's aim off just by throwing a tennis ball at it, or ...........

....even a well aimed shot from the trusty Reuger......

.......suddenly appear out of a clear blue sky whilst flying in less than perfect visibility but still VMC  (avref) sometimes referred to as cumulus granite.........

......and then in the meantime back at the DG farm the Reuger was loaded and in the sights were lots of cats. Not the musical entertainer type but the cute furry type required to fulfill the new contract with the Dim Sim factory. .....

Could not help butting in on this one. It is not magic that makes planes fly it is money..... The bigger the faster the newer the heavier all need more money for each step up and lots of it.

16 hours ago, facthunter said:

Stick stall position applies to a DEFINED set of circumstances which can include TRIM position on SOME planes and CofG and things like icing.  It IS a very useful thing to use. Pilots stall planes. They don't stall themselves, and pulling the stick back when the nose drops is INSTINCTIVE and must  be resisted. Appropriate training will emphasise this. There should  really be NO INADVERTANT stalls,  EVER. Nev

Hi Nev, I completely agree that the stall stick position is not an exact thing but we are on the same page here. I feel that being trained to feel the aircraft by flying in and out of a stall makes it second nature to know where you are in relation to stall irrespective of load c-g bank etc. It could be that a lot of instructors just never really got comfortable with stalls and so cannot really teach stall management well because they are a bit scared.

                                                                                                                                                             Greg 

On 16/05/2022 at 9:29 AM, kgwilson said:

When I did my PPL stalls were a major part of the syllabus. You had to be signed off for "Stall Basic", Stall Power On, Stall Fully Developed (Wing Drop)". Training was in a C150 or C152 & a good wing drop was demonstrated and then you had to practice this & recover from the incipient spin. You were required to practice all stalls solo as well. It did scare a lot of students (some lied about the solo practice)  but was a very valuable learning exercise. In RA only basic stalls are taught. Spinning is not taught as spinning in RA aircraft is not allowed.

 

My aircraft won't drop a wing unless I have plenty of power on with full flap & then kick the rudder fully. It will then go very quickly into a spin. Recovery is simply ailerons centred, opposite rudder, stick forward & fly away once the spin is arrested. 

Only basic stalls taught in RA ???. Not necessarily true. The school where I learnt some 23 years ago insisted in competence and solo practice in all forms of stall except spins. An incipient spin is called a wing drop stall so is still ok in RA. On the other hand when I did my PPL a year later only stall to buffet or horn was normal with no full power on stall, no stall in a side slip, no stall in a steep turn. I still practice stalls from time to time and enjoy doing so. For what it's worth I recon that being ok with flying in and out of a stall builds memory to make sure you will never accidently stall. The other thing not often taught is that you cannot stall an aircraft without having full back stick (or near full). My experience is all aircraft have a "stall stick position" so if you don't pull back to this spot it will not stall.