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It's a Cresco not a Fletcher. The advantages of using something closer than a satellite is more detailed data.

Orchid beach airstrip more than enough room for a trike

The rather neat casting would indicate it's factory to me. Homebuilt or kits would use something a lot more basic. Stearman stick guess?

Maybe try the EAA, they have a lot of keen antiquers.

Cost is the main cause people aren't flying. Wages have been going backwards at 2% a year for the last 30 or 40 years compared to cost of living. For people on wages even flying in an RAA aircraft is not feasible. For a lower priced GA aircraft not including the purchase price you would be looking at between 10 and 20 thousand dollars a year depending on how many hours flown.

We'll have to disagree Turbo, every airfield I've travelled to has way less traffic than years gone by. Most I talk to say GA is in a downward spiral.

I'm a lazy sod so can't be bovered looking up the figures but........Bankstown is an example of the decline in GA. Now compared to 70's, 80's? I disagree with Turbo's optimistic rosy view of GA and that CASA staff are keen flying enthusiasts. (Turbo, you employed by CASA or an ex CASA employee?) I've been flying professionally for 40 years and have had my own aviation business and been chief pilot for several others, in 40 years I can only think of one positive experience with CASA. Others I fly with have the same experience. Any rural town in Eastern Oz walk outside and listen, 70's and 80's you would always hear an aircraft. I might hear one 3 times a year now. Over-complication of regs, unnecessary changes in licensing and compliance for no reason, take Part 61 licence as an example. Read the prune thread with Glenn Buckley as to an example of CASA's treatment of GA. CASA moto......"We're not happy till your not happy" is the joke line, if it wasn't so true it would be funny.

Needs bigger tyres! 😁

Edenhope is a good airstrip, I usually do a few loads from there each summer. The CFA boys and girls there are top notch and do a great job. You load the bombers at all Bruce?

Not a lot different to threading under powerline and staying constant height above a crop only spraying it's done all day, not just for 30 seconds or so. It is now not possible to fly under or anywhere within something like 75 metres from a powerline with aerial application in Australia. So basically every pilot spraying in Australia has to brake the law to do the job. Easy to see why aerial spraying is virtually banned in the UK.

The world record thing has progressed to stupid levels, yes it's first but so what? Doesn't prove anything. How many of you are "world record" holders? Longest taxi without lifting off? Most donuts/groundloops in a single go?

Chinese/Taiwanese/Russian/Israeli variation on some billion dollar must have, won't be in service till 2050, whizz bang jit.

The report said he stalled at 4 to 500 feet doing a slow run after flying around t height for 17 minutes, no mention of a beatup

Gordon Bedson did the same thing with his 2 seat Resurgum

Do you drink alcohol or smoke? Have you flown commercially in airlines? All of those have risks way in excess of the odds of any vaccine problems. Are you a risk taker?

Flightrite, jackc...... you blokes had a vaccine shot?

Or too many people are believing stupid conspiracy theories and their political bias and unreasonable logic is going against doing the sensible and right thing for the population. Dan is the best premier Australia has. The current covid crises in Vic is due to the NSW premier complying with Scotty from marketing's bullying and locking down 2 months late, spreading the virus to the rest of the country.

Very reminiscent of a Whitman design, the Tailwind.

Wellcamp is an International airport, I notice they said "If the federal government won't allow aircraft to fly to Wellcamp, we will bus them there". Didn't they offer to build the centre in September last year? The feds said they wanted it built on Commonwealth land in Brisbane.

CASA not interested in bullet holes, I reported to them about being shot at and getting damage to the aircraft. All the bloke from CASA said was "Yeah, we used to get that all the time in Vietnam". No follow up, no investigation. Police were the same, not interested. This happened in the early 2000's.

Have you seen another photo of the wings somewhere else?

You forgot loathsome, blame shifting and talking of blame shifting Scotty from marketing has been absent. One of his very few public appearances he said the mission in Afghanistan was accomplished so all OK. After the Russians left there 20 years ago the place was overun in a couple of weeks, now Scotty from marketing says it happened too fast to try and help those that helped us. Those that don't learn from history. Thread drift, spin is the connection.......

Their god must be busy doen all sorts of favours, especially in the Us where all those evangelical leaders are asking for more jets and mansions

I'm sure it is very entertaining Captain Gazza but as soon as the words came up "Why we Pray" I glazed over and everything went blurry. How does loosing your tailwheel finish upside down in a wreck?

America were right in there with first concentration camps in the Philippines, if they weren't the first they perfected it.