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Student Pilot

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  1. Either reflections from long rock structures or refraction from the camera lens?
  2. Sean came from Halls Creek where he owned and ran Halls Creek Air Taxi's, along with the 300's he ran a 172XP for mustering, 206 and Baron for charter and freight. He also took a manager with him when the 22 went down. He was funny bloke to work with, flew very well and good company. When mustering season finished he used to travel, in his office he had a picture of the Mach number in the passenger compartment on a Concorde. He just went from London to New York for something to do. Don't know what happened to him after I left, I did hear his wife Ruth died of brain cancer. Peter Luitineger used to fly for Sean before he went Derby way and set up on his own. I meant flying every day for 2 months straight. It was the late 70's/early 80's, aerial mustering was just starting to get full swing, VRD had a few 47's and the only thing at Kununurra was a flight service and Craig Muir's hangar (Craig was an engineer and was only working on other peoples aircraft). Stewy an old one armed Yank Ag flier had a Pawnee, Kenny Patton had an old A model 300 there as well, there was no tourist industry, the Bungle Bungles were those funny looking hills you used to fly passed going up to Kununurra for maintenance.
  3. Martin Hone built one with a Rotec I think?
  4. I worked for a contractor in the early 80's, it was considered normal activity. He ran half a dozen 300's and a fixed wing mustering. The bloke I worked for was the first one killed years after when a blade pulled out on his 22. It was considered normal to at least double TBO's. It was also normal to fly 2 months straight every day. The ringers had entrenched behaviour of drinking and it carried through, aerial mustering was no different you were considered a ringer and treated accordingly.
  5. It's considered normal to drink till the early hours get a couple of hours sleep then head out for a days work, that's what "Real men" do.
  6. Fancy letting a girl fly an aircraft That's why they make good pilots as well, they don't have the testosterone problems and gung-ho, ten foot tall and bullet proof attitude. Most blokes shouldn't fly before they are 30 years old No idea how I made it through the first couple of years
  7. The 2 I saw were either side of Guyra, one at Sunnyside the other just to the Northwest of Guyra. The Sunnyside one just left a big hole, they bailed out via the pod. I flew over the other one the day after it crashed with the loss of the crew, there were lots of military there. It appeared to me to have gone in inverted at a shallower angle and made a big scar on the surrounds. The ground is very hard and there has to be a lot of force to make much of an impression, the hole looked to be at least 7 metres deep (20' to you old farts who still think Imperial). It takes a lot of energy to make that bigger hole in the surface. F111's used to track via Gurya, the abattoir used to be their target after they were fitted with the laser tracking system. They would do a pull-up out from the target then invert to pull back down before rolling back again tracking out low level. Used to see them all hours of the day and night.
  8. I would think landing an airliner wouldn't have much in common with a lighty?
  9. Trouble is when you do the big bounce there's ALWAYS somebody watching
  10. One of Grahams Safaris?
  11. As I've said before I find it best just to land the aircraft
  12. Ole mate might have had some stuff published on the net, that doesn't make it right or the truth. His theory seemed to be that the wreckage of the airliners should have stayed on the outside of the skyscrapers and would not have carried through the way it did. You only have to look at various impacts from aircraft, one is from the radio controlled 707 (I think it was a Boeing) that impacted in the dessert, more I have seen is a couple of impact craters from F111's. They hit with a lot of force, that force carries on it doesn't just stop where they hit.
  13. What gain would there be for blowing up your own buildings? This virus has given life to nutjobs and mentally unstable people to run wild with stupid conspiracy theories.
  14. I did read a bit of that link, there was too much conspiracy. How does ole mate explain away live footage?
  15. Who is Australia worried about militarily? No mater how much Australia spends it could not defend itself without backing from the US. The US would drop Australia in the poo quicksmart if they don't profit. Look at the current trade problems, Australia was doing the US's bidding by demanding a narrow inquiry into virus, if they would have opened the request to countries (England, Italy, Spain, US and China) measures to control the virus and mistakes made Implementing measures it would have been less partisan. What parameters does the WHO backed inquiry have? Are they looking into mistakes made with implementation of restrictions? The main outcome of Australia demanding an inquiry into "China virus" as Libs call it has been we have lost markets in beef and barley. The Yanks have stepped in and made a deal to sell their subsidised barley to China in a trade deal. They don't care about Australia, history has proven that with wheat sales, they did exactly the same thing in the 80's.
  16. This the one I saw at Museum in rural Saskatchewan, looks based on the same frame with mods like a better looking fin/rudder and some homemade retracts. Looks wood construction.
  17. Going twice.............
  18. Falconar F12? The one I found had different undercarriage legs but similar design and fin/rudder. I saw something like it hanging in a Museum in a place called Assinabioa in Saskatchewan, it had retracts though.
  19. Pylon pusher, when you throttle off or lose power you get a pitch up.
  20. Has a Cavalier/RV/Whitman look toit
  21. There's a mob now trying to sell the tooling, design and equipment to manufacture Callair's. I think it's for the bigger B9, originally built with 720 Lyc, also produced with 985 Pratt. There were lots of A9's in Oz most now used for Tugging. Doubt there is any still on AG. There were a couple of B9's in NZ on super, all wrecked now.
  22. Callair? A9 was the first Ag aircraft I worked, that has similarities.
  23. Kimberly Skyrider?
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