Gnarly Gnu
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Bex interesting in the light of your party line comments about the Tiananmen massacre. All commies are blameless apparently... it's Abbots fault or something. Be a shoe-in for a comfy a job at ABC.
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Mate outsource the whole office to India, might not be easier for us - but the joy of having CASA deal with it....
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I agree, quite like lizards. We would be in better shape if parliament house was inhabited by actual lizards.
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Well the bat was voted out not so long ago.
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Colin Jones - RA-Aus Board Election 2014 - Candidate for NSW
Gnarly Gnu replied to coljones's topic in Governing Bodies
All the best Colin, thanks for offering your help. Just a suggestion, you might want to delete or modify your email address in this post unless you relish contact by a bunch of Nigerian aircraft enthusiasts? -
Yeah,was thinking this was a very obedient bunch of Aussies here. Once I have submitted the necessary paperwork and payment for a job (any job) I cross it off my list and move on to the next task. Not that I own an RAA aircraft of course...
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Another Jabiru engine bites the dust
Gnarly Gnu replied to dutchroll's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
Actually quite the opposite Dave, surprising to you but the best quality and most complex aluminium pressure castings are made right here by an old South Australian company. -
I think they are readily available in the US, it would need to come in as part of an aircraft though.
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Welcome Mark! That's not far from Oshkosh right? Have fun....!
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Pietenpol Air Camper Corvair build
Gnarly Gnu replied to Bubbleboy's topic in Aircraft Building and Design Discussion
Nice bungee suspension! C'mon, show us the welding.... -
" [/url]The last Avro Vulcan, one of the coolest warplanes of the Cold War era , takes to the skies again this weekend. The plane, born of the days when the world seemed constantly under threat of nuclear war, was meticulously overhauled some time ago, but has flown intermittently because keeping it aloft is so expensive. The nonprofit Vulcan to the Sky Trust, which owns and operates the plane, is bringing it out again for the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The Vulcan was the world’s first delta-wing bomber, a long-range aircraft developed in the 1950s to give Britain the ability to drop a nuke or two on Russia should we ever reach DefCon 2. It never came to that, of course, and the plane didn’t see combat until the early 1980s when the UK went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands."
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That's why they invented the 2 gauge Punt Gun, even Johnny Howard would like to try one of these:
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Very cool - don't be a fool, land on a stool.
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OK, more nautical (naughtical?) related but he did hit some runway lights, also exposes the joke that is airport security: " [/url]A fishing boat smashed head on into runway approach lights at La Guardia Airport early Sunday after the vessel’s drunken captain deserted the helm for a three-way sex romp — exposing a stunning security weakness, sources told The Post. Police were unable to reach the boat to determine whether it was a threat for about 30 minutes, even though a Port Authority police vessel was tied up at a nearby dock. There was no crew available to operate it because, in a money-saving move, the PA had decided to operate its navy only during daylight hours." Post below if you have suffered similar mishaps.
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[/url] The World’s Silliest Plane Takes Off for a ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Stunt "The coolest planes in all of France have flown in formation together, and we couldn’t be happier about it. On Friday May 30, fighter jets with the country’s top (only?) aerobatic flying team took to the skies over Toulouse alongside the Airbus Beluga, the funky cargo plane we love more every time we see it. Airbus developed the Beluga, known by the more serious among us as the A300-600ST Super Transporter, in the 1990s to carry wings and fuselages between assembly plants. Derived from the A300, the plane looks more like its namesake Cetacean or the alien supervillain Megamind than something that can get off the ground, let alone keep up with eight of the blue, white, and red Alphajets of the Armée de l’Air."
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Is the hoverbike about to become reality?
Gnarly Gnu replied to Gnarly Gnu's topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
Actually I'm thinking this may be more fun and much cheaper: Insane Jet-Powered Hoverboard Lets You Fly Over the Waves " [/url]Catching waves is rad. Flying 16 feet above them on a hoverboard propelled by a stream of high-speed H2O is radder." Darn, turns out it needs a big hose those. Who wants one of those? -
Heh
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Dunno about PNG but I have had a lot to do with kids from India and China - mate they only do video games and facebooky type stuff now. They can be smart but hopelessly impractical and with zero mechanical knowledge I'm afraid. The entire contents of a hardware store is a mystery to them (actually went looking for a hardware store in a large Indian city once, no such thing existed).
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BBC article: "The device is named the Aero-X and it takes up about as much room as a small car. Eventually there will be space for just two passengers though, and early prototypes show only one brave test-rider, who perches on top of two horizontal spinning blades encased in circular housings. The company calls it a crossover vehicle. It is technically a hovercraft, but it apparently feels like riding a motorbike. It is designed for low-altitude flying, and can zoom over ground that even an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) would struggle with. Aerofex says it will be capable of 72km/h (45mph). But at a cost of $85,000, who is a crossover hoverbike aimed at, beyond the odd rich eccentric with a head for heights?" * * the last sentence sounds like some here no?
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Yeah well they don't recognize GA either, front of queue to kick any GA operations out.
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Ha ha I was thinking about inserting a joke about the alternative method of hiring a cheap illegal immigrant to do the job if you didn't want to spend up on the respirator.... but no, being a nice Gnu I wouldn't do such a poor taste non-PC joke of course. I hope it goes well! Be sure to post some photos of progress.
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Hasse polyurethane paints are a wonderful product but I really try to avoid using them wherever possible due to the health risks (and I'm pretty gung-ho on most things). That said in some cases PU is simply the best product to use, so I'd go for it but with good quality replaceable cartridge half or full face respiratory spray mask such as Sundstrom or similar (you should know this brand). This is for a one-off spray job, more than that and you really should be using a proper filtered air-supply hood. And yes, less paint is better as long as you get coverage.
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I have an industrial spray booth, come on over guys! Welcome Hans
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A $3.8 million Predator carrying a Hellfire missile cratered near Kandahar in January 2010 because the pilot did not realize she had been flying the aircraft upside-down. Maybe some instructors here can relate to this scenario.
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[/url] More than 400 large U.S. military drones have crashed in major accidents around the world since 2001, a record of calamity that exposes the potential dangers of throwing open American skies to drone traffic, according to a year-long Washington Post investigation. [insert Jabiru joke here .... you just know they'll come] Not sure what defines a 'major accident' in the context of people not being injured in a machine malfunction. Maybe if you are paying for the drone? The potential risk is clear though.
