Pookemon

The ABC article has a pic of a Pawnee with a great big dent in the left leading edge.  I've seen some rough Pawnee's before, but I think that might give away it was involved.

6 minutes ago, derekliston said:

Absolutely tragic but also why, being a wussy (is that a word?) pilot, I don’t fly at weekends when the gliders are flying at our airfield. Skinny white things that can be virtually impossible to see, can be coming from anywhere and power is supposed to give way to them, which is fine if in fact you see it first! So very sad all round! My presumption is that the glider crew were the fatalities? What was the powered one?

Shouldn't matter if gliders are operating or not - every pilot should be looking out for all traffic - and following standard patterns - and I'd expect Radio's are mandatory so all pilots should let all others know where they are. 

From a pic on that dreadful dailymail site and ABC it looks like a Jab (2xfatalities) and a Pawnee.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-28/aircraft-crash-caboolture-paramedics-respond-significant/102660186

Thanks - the listed sizes they have are a bit different - but I've contacted Hughes to see if they can help.

Aircraft Spruce don't have streamlined Al listed, but adding up the equivalent to the quote I got from Airport Metals leaves ~ $800 for shipping.

Hi all,

After a few years of "life" I'm getting back into my Karatoo build.  I'm wondering if anyone knows of a potential supplier for Aluminium Strut's (wing struts)?  I tried Airport Metals (having purchased some materials from them previously) and they can't supply it.  My other option is streamline round tube (which was the original spec) with foam/fibreglass.

Thanks,

Scott S.