hihosland

Would there be a speedway if all the people who go to see a crash stayed away?

Soleair did say

"Fair point. But trees cheat - they have bloody great roots. . ."

envy???

Got the same ( I presume) message from an Australian mobile number. +61 etc

Great show,

Thoroughly enjoyed

a grand credit to the whole team that made it happen

If either Raaus or SAAA were represented there I missed them.

cheers

Davidh

the following gives some idea of the South African connection

http://showme.co.za/nelspruit/lifestyle/bat-hawk-the-family-business-that-really-took-off/

There was a recent post that I now cannot find asking about Bantam aircraft.

It looks as if the business of Micro Aviation is now being operated by new owners in South Africa with the aircraft now marketed as the Bat Hawk.

The Bat Hawk web site contains several direct quotes from the Bantam site with the addition of "proudly designed and built in South Africa.

quote

As a conventional 3-axis light sport aircraft LSA, the Bat Hawk does not rely on pilot weight shift to affect control. Twin seats are positioned side by side for full dual control and both crew members are well protected from the weather by an aerodynamic fibreglass pod and large wrap-around windshield.

quote

As a conventional 3-axis microlight , the Bantam does not rely on pilot weight shift to effect control. Twin seats are positioned side by side for full dual control and both crew are well protected from the weather by an aerodynamic fibreglass pod and large wrap-around windshield.

Sport pilot market reduced to one page !!!

What's going on?

It can't be that no one is trying to sell

and

it can't be that all ads are hidden away on that advertising site

could it????

Time to hand in the car keys?

both ?? !!

The light turned orange as he approached the traffic lights.

He did the right thing and stopped, even though he might

have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection.

The tailgating woman behind him was furious and honked her horn,

screaming in frustration, as she missed her chance to get through the

intersection.

As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her window and looked

up into the face of a very serious police officer.

The officer ordered her to exit her car with her hands up. He took her

to the police station where she was searched, fingerprinted,

photographed and placed in a holding cell.

After a couple of hours, a policeman approached the cell and opened

the door.

She was escorted back to the booking desk where the arresting officer

was waiting with her personal effects.

He said, ''I'm very sorry for this mistake.

You see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, giving the guy in

front of you the finger and cursing at him.

I noticed the 'What Would Jesus Do' bumper sticker, the 'Choose Life' license plate holder, the

'Follow Me to Sunday-School' bumper sticker, and the chrome-plated

Christian fish emblem on the trunk,

so naturally ......

I assumed you had stolen the car.''

and it rhymes

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . .

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

~ Old Italian proverb...

After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

~ David Letterman...

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.

I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

— Charles A. Lindbergh, 'The Spirit of St. Louis.'

The article did say jet aircraft

LastbombrunoverJapan

I invite you to take the time to watch this authentic live footage (38 minute long film of this conventional air assault on the Japanese mainland, just before A-Bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima! Absolutely fantastic footage of some the members of what WE consider to be THE GREATEST GENERATION! Riveting, to say the least.

To think of 600 B-29s all taking off to bomb Japan at one time is beyond the imagination. We hear so much about the Atom Bomb raids on Japanese cities that we forget these raids took place before that......

This is video from the color film archives.

This is spectacular live footage of the 3,000 round trip mile air assault upon the Japanese mainland, with 3 bomber wings and a host of P-51's. This is the real way to end a war.

No matter what war footage you ever saw before, this is the real deal and will keep your undivided attention. The P-51 & B29 footage is remarkable. The strafing runs by the P-51 pilots were incredible.

There are several "breaks" as the film canisters are changed, just wait for the count down

(View Full Screen/Sound On) B-29/P-51 Actual WWII Footage:

Click below

http://www.archive.org/details/TheLastBomb1945

This is a video of the Canadian Snowbirds aerobatic team taken by a go-pro camera

mounted in the smoke-pod of Snowbird 1.

Filmed around Comox BC which is about 140 miles north of Victoria on Vancouver Island.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/tTnTEvKC-sE

[ATTACH]26758[/ATTACH]Bruce is worried about 150Sq m blocks

around here they advertise "large blocks" at 50 sq m

A circuit or two around home bemoaning the rate that good horticultural land is being covered in ashphalt.

Accepted

and

especially the implied fermented beverage or two

thanks.

Robbo did say

"

Doesn't this violate Ian's rule?

You are basically trying to steal members from this site."

AH No.

The group in question is not a flying group, but software that would work for a flying club would meet my aspirations.

Putting flying in the title was deliberate to assist Ian in keeping the web crawlers convinced that this is an aeronautical site.

But a fair criticism by Robbo based on the way I posted

The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

— Igor Ivanovitch Sikorsky, comment on 20th anniversary of the helicopter's first flight, 13 September 1959.

I am considering hosting a members only bulletin board/discussion group

A venue for general discussions

and

discussion relevant to the politics/ functions of the group concerned

I am seeking suggestions for software to enable this.

My desires are;

members only

discussions not visible to non members

A member must enroll with own name

a member may post with own name

A member can also have one alias/username whereby they can post anonymously

A member can create a new thread

Some threads are "sticky" ie remain at top of list

Can post photos

max potential membership 300

a likely active membership less than 100

simple enough administration system for me to manage.

any and all advice greatly received

Many thanks Davidh

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~ John Glenn...

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

A popular hypothesis is that a group of pilots took off and flew into deteriorating weather until they lost visual discrimination between cloud and ocean, ultimately flying into the water with all on board dying.

Accepting that hypothesis; I posit that if any one of those pilots were contemplating the same flight as a solo venture the result would most likely have been different. The airlines invested heavily in modifying in-cockpit culture to address this problem. Light aviation has sadly failed in addressing CRM issues.

Virtually all of the posts on this and other fora dealing with similar events acknowledge that this has happened before, and by implication accept that it will happen again.

Surely there is some cultural adjustments that could and should be made with a view to reducing this toll.

What is it in our light aviation culture that prevents pilots immediately they realise all is not well from picking up the radio and seeking assistance?.

Is it fear of penalty or recrimination? Or a case of believing that so asking is an admission of guilt, incompetence or weakness? If so, we need a cultural shift away from blame allocation to one of assistance provision.

Does a PPL at their flight review need to demonstrate IF abilities to at least the standard required for the initial issuance of a PPL. ? If not why not?

Why do pilots in deteriorating visibility not call for assistance and get vectored to safer conditions?. The ultimate outcome may still be disastrous but at least all available avenues of resolution have been explored.

Presuming that the prevailing culture prevents this happening at whose door do we lay the responsibility for fixing it? CFIs, RAA, CASA, Airservices, aero club bar, or Minister Truss?.

Regardless it needs to be address.

The only thing uniting all those who “died doing what love” is that they are dead and more often than not needlessly so.