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I have been thinking about this. I reckon a stripped down A22 would weigh about 280kg and could safely fly at 700kg AUW. Allow 70kg for fuel, it could carry 350kg of explosives. It would not need instruments, seats etc other than an autopilot and a throttle servo. Range wold be well plus 1000 km. I would paint it in Russian civil colours with a blow-up blonde female doll in the pilot position. Is this how Ukraine has been hitting deep into Russia? An 80HP 912 with 2000 hours on it would cost US$5000 in Europe. You could build the whole thing for $50k, very cheap for that capability.
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A video on Telegram shows what is clearly a weaponised A22 Foxbat hitting a barracks about 1000 km east of Moscow, with a big explosion. This is a still from the video.
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You should have been warned, perhaps there was a cover up.
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Hi from Mornington peninsular, Victoria, Australia
pmccarthy replied to Deano747's topic in Just Landed - Welcome
I love my Vixxen but even though it is a high wing you have to crawl under neath and lie on your side to do the fuel drain. -
The service ceiling of your Sopwith Camel is when you raise the nose to fire at a Hun fifty feet higher, and you fall out in a spin.
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The club closed a few years ago. It was being redeveloped as a civic centre I think.
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Thanks, good ideas.
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Cirrus 22M Shelter Cove Airport, CA
pmccarthy replied to red750's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
Still catches your balls then. -
The needles move just a bit. Highest I have seen them was a long climb on a hot day, got about half way up the yellow band. Never seen them reach green. Really good cooling or dud gauges. Oil just lifts off the stop after 3 or 4 minutes from cold start, coolant doesn't move. Photo shows typical cruise. Been that way since new aeroplane.
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An evenful Afternoon's Flying
pmccarthy replied to rodeagle's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
Ballarat has been scary in recent years too. Too many students with poor English frightening the likes of me. -
Cirrus 22M Shelter Cove Airport, CA
pmccarthy replied to red750's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
The attitude to risk is interesting. People fly Bass Strait in single engines every day. The chances of survival after ditching are close to zero. -
My new engine (80 hours) has never seen the green band on either the oil or coolant gauges. It worries me. Smart air, the Foxbat agent, say it is normal. I would mask off part of the radiators, but am not convinced that the problem is not just the gauges. I need to get serious about diagnosis.
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This is what I put in our March club newsletter. Tyabb Airshow 10 March Tyabb, VIC Unusual Attitudes Fly-in 16 March Lake Eppalock VIC Ausfly 22nd - 23rd March Wentworth NSW Aldinga Airshow 7th April Aldinga SA RAAus Fly-n For Fun 12-14 April Parkes NSW ANZAC Weekend Airshow 27-28 April 2024 West Sale, VIC
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There a nice Quicksilver for sale at present, very reasonable price. Saw it today, I just can’t find the ad again.
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We had the Tyabb air show ad in our club newsletter for three months.
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Light plane crash south west of Sydney 24 Jan 2024.
pmccarthy replied to red750's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
47 hours dual and only 4 solo seems a bit strange if I am reading it correctly. -
They have now released the audio of the incident. It went Boeing, Boeing, Boeing.
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How to hold nylocs from spinning
pmccarthy replied to Bruce Tuncks's topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
Bruce it is not clear what the problem is - if you can get pliers in there, then you can get a spanner in. What are we missing? -
Anyone going?
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Your mum was hot.
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B is Maxwell Smart's shoe radio.
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Continuing its focus to support pilots around the world with powerful and innovative applications, Boeing today announced it has acquired OzRunways. With this, OzRunways becomes part of the ForeFlight family.
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Crop Duster Crash near Bourke NSW 10/2/2024
pmccarthy replied to FlyingVizsla's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
Has a name been released yet? -
Nearmap must do this regularly, I don’t know what aircraft they use.
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Crash at Boonah Golf Course 14/01/2024
pmccarthy replied to HeliPilot70's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents