Flightrite

Those that may recall VH BOB will recall Bob, RIP old mate, your 'VH' lives on?

Ya gotta remember cars have gears to get the full use out of their small cube high HP power plants, planes operate in 'top gear' all the time. Try getting these cars to accelerate (and last) starting in top gear! That's why we have large capacity big bore direct drive engines.

"Ugly all day"?

They have a real cult following, not sure why buy hey each too their own??

My parents went thru the war as newly weds, they where on their knees during and more so after the war! I can't imagine for one minute what it would have been like to live under those terrible conditions! We live like Kings these days!

Unless instructed otherwise at a towered drome you depart from the intersection you where cleared to line up from. If the terrain at the dept end of the Rwy is not favourable for an off field landing then say 'require' full length not 'request'. ATC have to oblige but they don't have to expedite yr departure.

Apparently started out as two canoe's on top of each other went from there!?

Only ever went in a drifter once many years ago, was a weird feeling sitting out there on what felt like a pole stationary above the earth blasted by gale force winds??

Saw this recently, sure was different?

Exactly!.....pass!

Oh I agree but 'shouldn't meaning as I've said many a times it's too easy to get a license and keep it!

All good advice, but shouldn't need to be said!

I don't agree. Understanding A/C handling has nothing to do with it, it's still showing off whether you know better or not! Tex J was showing off when he rolled a B707 and he knew better than most!

It's called showing off, something a lot of pilots love doing!

That comment is still about with a single word removed, 'not', now....."if it's Boeing I'm not going"?Airbus, way of the future??

A hundred years ago in another life when I worked for a major oil Co often Avtur slops was used in various diesel equip around the yard but the chemist at the refinery always said to add a lubricant because Avtur was very'dry'. Can't recall what lub we used to put in the fuel.

I'm getting a headache after reading all this!?

Plenty of room in the deserts for these lemons!?

Just Re watched the Sully movie after a few years. Don't shoot me but I thought now like I did when I first saw it, terrible piece of producing as the dialogue was all over the place with so many inaccuracies? But I guess it's a Hollywood movie and designed for the uninformed!

Air cooled engines especually early built units where done so for simplicity and field servicing. Air is free, simple and effective, Christ there are so many air cooled engines running around with humans onboard that you couldn't count them! Water cooled in most applications is heavier, more expensive and more complex all unesesary, just ask Mr Lycoming, he has sold one or two over the years successfully I might add!

That's an oldy but a goody?

Freighter so anyone spilling their coffee where stowaways!??

That's what I call the 'stunned mullet' effect, like T88 said?

Prelim report out in this tragic event, only what's really already known has been published, ?

It's like inventing a new mouse trap, the pests are still with us after a zillion fancy types of mouse traps been invented but the good old wood Spring .50c trap does the job! Two things will always hold back new engine designs, reliability and resale, the latter often the biggest issue! Sometime ago there was an RV8 for sale (in the States) that had an oddball rotary donk in it, sat on the market for ages, finally sold for peanuts and re-engined wth a proper A/C engine, it's value would have increased instantly!