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We were at Middlebrook Station - on the ground. 7 aircraft damaged - mine was probably worst - 22 holes in the wings. Hopefully will be ready for Echuca !

ABA had a "slight" issue with hail a few weekend ago up near Scone. Wings are currently stripped and being recovered. I am taking the opportunity to repaint it in the original RAF colour scheme so will look somewhat different when it flys again early in the new year.

Nice aircraft. What weight carrying capabilities ?

And a Stearman

I have always just used the New button when in the forums - and it went straight to things that had new items. Now you have to press New and then select Forums - is there any way to make this a one selection thing again ? If you are viewing forums I think it should assume that when you press new that you just want to see new forum posts ?

We have a 37 Empire Star 500 in the shed - wonderful bike to ride !

Hmmm - bit far to come in the Auster for a day - but must visit sometime

I bought my Auster from one of them - glad they are OK !

Our son took about two hours to travel the length of Camden Bypass this morning !! We tried to go to Camden but the traffic was at a standstill on Burragorang Road so turned round. Tim S took the photos. I have not been down to The Oaks airport today but I expect its rather damp.

The wet weather in Sydney made it a bit hard to actually get to Camden Airport this morning !! Its about 25 years since I last saw this level of flooding here.

I have been having fun looking back at tracks on OzRunways - one from last weekend attached when we did an arrival into Camden via the river at 500AGL. Tower is happy to approve if you ask. When we went way to Echuca my wife rather liked the general tracking page where she could follow our progress tx.ozrunways.com

There is a guy at Camden who was setting this up with the intention of using 5 Harvards - not sure where it got to

I guess my point though is that if they are assessed as high risk I certainly dont want to be sharing the airspace/circuit with them. It was not meant to be specifically about the need for a passenger endorsement for RAA or not.

One would have to ask why these people are actually allowed to take an aircraft out by themselves at all if there flying is high risk ?

Spent the night in Wagga - just got back today ! Great weekend - including a "spectacular" Auster formation

Jealous !! I was looking at importing one a while ago but the dollar tanked and made it un-economic !! Love them.

Depending on exactly where you live, Camden isn't that far and has a number of good schools

Went to the Auster/Short Wing Piper rally over the weekend at Wentworth. A very long flight in an Auster for a tall pilot ! - Camden to Wentworth was about 6 hours flying time. Of course we had a headwind in both directions. Was good to meet up with old friends.

The pictures are interesting - for a motor that has only done 5 hours seems like quite a lot of vertical scuffing and the deposits on the cylinder walls look like rust ? Is the scuffing normal for this type of motor ?

Missed the first episode - hopefully it comes on again sometime

Just bought his autobiography on Kindle. Its jumped to #1 best seller in military history !

Just caught up with the news. We only live a kilometre away and got the storm but nothing like what the airfield got.

There is a guy building a full size one at Wedderburn that sounds similar

Such a lovely day today had to go for a quick fly - local round Camden and back in the scenic way (via the river at 800 feet) followed by a few circuits. Youngest son was doing the flying so I just went along for the ride