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Idiots are prevented from easily accessing guns which cuts down on the number of fatal shootings. How many times have you seen stories from the USA of f*wits leaving a loaded handgun somewhere within reach of a child?

Wow...sounds like we need some more legislation then..........that legislation brought to you by your friendly commie lefty who wants to participate in society........so that cant be the answer then.....what answer, that is devoid of any legislation would you apply.....make sure yours is bigger?

Why would he sue himself?

Suggestions like yours are what I was posting about Andy. Someone starts the ball rolling and next thing we all have our guns taken off us.In looking back on the last buy back:

The career criminals who always bought untraceable guns usually from overseas haven't missed a beat.

 

The two compartment safes required have probably prevented many suicides and family deaths.

 

The people who brought their gun home after fighting for their country with no intent of ever using them probably suffered more post traumatic stress than they needed to.

 

I think there are less guns than before because legal shooting areas have really tightened up, and Police statistics would confirm either way.

 

Murders have continued on, but are often carried out with knives these days.

 

The real key, controlling the people who, unlike almost all of us, who tip over from reality to the point where they can kill someone, still has a way to go. My family doctor at the time told me fixing the problem was easy;if compulsory reporting by GPs was brought in almost all the misfits would be identified and could be dealt with.

I did read an interesting article the other about the roots of our type of governance,where the default is always "no". Apparently it started with some governor not long after the Brits moved here. His concept was that the average Joe couldn't be trusted to do the right thing ever, and everyone must be tightly regulated an punished for even looking like they could break a rule, rather than have loose rules and punishing only those who did something actually harmful to society. He has a lot to answer for. Acro is right in that we are way over regulated, and ridiculously so.

You know you're in love when she says "you're in, love".

My wife wanted a double entendre....so I gave her one.

I do:-I get up at SIX am,check my PULSE,put on my BOOTS, go down to the FORK in the river and and select at RANDOM one of the PUNTS and enjoy my day boating.

Alan.

I have little faith in the RUOK campaign, all it is, is feel good talk for so some people can feel like they've contributed without actually having to do anything.

Separation, the Family Law Court and the Child Support Agency are seriously implicated in the deaths of many people. We can all ask "RUOK" until the cows come home, nothing will change until there is a degree of fairness in the pox that we have as a justice system. Everyone is keen to jump on the "violence against women" campaign, but the reality is violence has no gender, and a good portion of that violence (not always physical) is dished out by our supposed fairer sex and supported by the Family Court.

I would like to say sorry for the rant, but as soon as I saw the post mentioning separation, it hit home, and there is no sorrow for standing up and trying to expose the truth about our useless systems.

in the name of safety

Andy, go dam busters style with two light beams?

Can anyone tell me is it ok to cut off the plug going in to the Vertex radio & attatch the proper one ,Im not sure of the wiring inside these leads ,cheers.

Man I could do with an fuic right now, and they're a lot cheaper than hookers :)Seriously though there have been some good suggestions above, instructing for free would be one way to get flying though the course isn't free and once your students could fly a bit you'd just be a passenger in the passenger seat not doin much flying. A cheap two stroke or vw powered might be an option but even then five or ten thousand for a plane buys you a lot of worry free plane hire...

Get yourself an inexpensive 95:10 with a trailer. Learn all you can about maintenance. That will involve hanging around and helping other maintainers. When your aircraft costs less than $10k and hangarage is no issue, suddenly flying becomes much cheaper. You may also find, as I did, there is a lot of fun to be had flying with others who have similar performing aircraft, flying places together in loose formation.

Just a tip....if you call Alcoa, and they ask what it's for, and you mention the word "aircraft", the pricks will hang up on you.

Have you considered just using the commercial metric size and gently heating the ends to fit the batten tips (so they mould to size),? assuming that this is a 95:10 where you can do pretty much as you want. The aerospace stuff will be more expensive of course, but will be lighter, due to wall thickness and consistent quality. I guess it depends on how badly you want it it fly.

I think you should continue to fly as long as you:a) want to

 

b) are healthy enough to pass a medical

 

c) can afford to

 

No mention of calendar age there. I was 59 when I got my licence (obviously a slow learner ).

 

rgmwa

They say "I do" out loud, then mumble the words "not have to suck c*ck any more" to themselves.

Another X-15vid with Scott Crossfield at the controls.

Cut and paste from another site... note the damage.

The moment of launch for Pete Knight and X-15A-2 number 56-6671. Knight will free fall away from the launch aircraft before firing his rocket motor.

The sound barrier is broken when a succession of shockwaves accumulate on the nose of a projectile. Or aircraft. When they are compressed enough, the explosion happens. Like the crack of a bullet. There are often two sonic booms. In this case, there is no record. But over the next 75 seconds Pete Knight accelerates past the sound barrier- and keeps on accelerating. Mach 2…3…4… There is no secondary sonic boom as Mach speed accumulates. No dramatic acknowledgement of a new speed frontier being crossed.

Mach 5.

Five tons of anhydrous ammonia and liquid oxygen have burned in a barely controlled explosion 15 feet behind Knight’s ejector seat. Two tons remain.

Mach 5.5.

A by-product of speed in the atmosphere is friction, and a by-product of friction is heat. Pete Knight’s X-15A-2 begins to melt. The leading edge of the wings glow at over a thousand degrees. Even at high altitude the air molecules can’t get out of the way fast enough to dissipate heat. So chunks of Knight’s X-15 begin to burn and fall off. Big chunks. During flight, shock waves burn through the leading edge of the lower ventral fin igniting a series of small fires in the engine housing. Near the explosive nitrogen tanks.

Mach 6.

Knight already has the throttle advanced to the forward stop. One of two things will happen; he will complete his fuel burn and set a new speed record by a massive margin…

He passes through Mach 6.5.

Or, he will disintegrate as the accumulation of heat causes a massive structural failure of his airframe that will result in an instantaneous explosion of any unburned fuel. It’s unlikely much wreckage will be found.

Mach 6.6.

A big part of the X-15A-2’s ventral fin ignites and burns completely through. It flies off the aircraft, tracing a bright, burning arc to the desert floor.

Mach 6.7.

Fuel burn complete. Flight profile nominal. Powered flight terminated, ballistic flight initiated. Knight is still alive and at the controls of the world’s fastest glider. The X-15A-2 had reached its maximum velocity, a new manned flight speed record by a huge margin. It arcs over the Nevada-California border, over a mile a second, leading edges still glowing from heat. Accumulated heat detonates the separation charges on the dummy scramjet carried for test purposes. It explodes away from the X-15A-2 over Edwards bombing range as Knight decelerates through Mach 1 and 32,000 feet, more charred junk toppling to earth. Knight continues to descend, burning fragments dropping off the aircraft as he flies. The relentless forces of physics reel in ambition once again. But only after history is made.

Somewhere east of Edwards Air Force Base the second set of recovery chase aircraft find Knight as he descends and decelerates to enter the landing profile. The X-15A-2 is charred. There are visible holes burned through the ventral tail. Would the landing gear still function? Had the single nose wheel tire melted from the heat? The rear landing gear on the X-15 was a pair of stubby, ski-like skids designed for one-time use.

A long telephoto shot of Pete Knight landing the charred X-15A-2 at the end of the record setting flight.

Knight extends his nose wheel, landing skids, speed brakes and sets flaps for landing. A chase pilot confirms that the landing gear appear intact. He touches down at 14:40:07 local time on Rogers Dry Lakebed runway 17/35. A billowing plume of dust erupts behind his two rear skids as the X-15A-2 slides to a stop on the 7.5-mile long runway. The flight lasted 8 minutes and 16 seconds and covered over 213 miles of the western United States. Knight’s rocket engine only burned for a fraction more than 2 minutes and 20 seconds of the flight.

William J. “Pete” Knight’s speed record remained unbroken by any winged craft until the space shuttle Columbia’s reentry from space on April 14, 1981. His speed record still remains intact for a non-orbital aircraft.

Pete Knight had become the fastest pilot to fly inside the atmosphere in powered, controlled flight. A record that officially remains today.

Airport metals stock it, comes in 12 foot lengths, they are quite reasonable.

http://www.airportmetals.com/pdf/amtubing.pdf

I have a similar setup on mine, I just changed the clamps on the exhaust so they come up the inside vertically, and used an angle bracket to replace the two tabs coming off the engine mount plate. What that does is load the rubber mounts radially, rather than the bending load as shown in the pic. Seems to be effective.

Do you have your vertex manual? on page 45 is a diagram of the plug, the tip of the 4 pole 3.5mm plug is ptt, the ring close to the insulation is ground. If you set your multimeter to ohms (then test the meter by touching the 2 probes together, and should read 0 ohms) then contact one probe on the tip and the other on the top ring, it should be an open circuit (lots of ohms), when you press your ptt this should then read 0 ohms (or nearly 0) This is much easier if your multimeter has a setting that beeps when shorted.

If you get an open circuit when the ptt is pressed, then check the ptt on each of the wires coming out of the switch, if this is still open circuit, then your ptt has failed. If you get a closed circuit at the switch, but not at the plug, then it could be the wires or something in the intercom.

This process can be repeated along the circuit until you find the open circuit (assuming that it is a broken wire or bad switch).

I hope you can understand this, as I'm finding it difficult to briefly explain the troubleshooting process in writing.

I suspect if it doesn't work out, a suitable interaction of entities would ensure the Wagners most certainly did not get poor... when trusts and companies are involved, a belly-up project doesn't necessarily mean full doom for the individuals involved. Also, airport was an all-or-nothing game. It isn't as though the entirely of the family's fortunes was tied to it.

 

Why is that underhanded? There was a date on which rules changed and they applied before it. At what point prior to the change being implemented for future applications, does making an application under the old system become underhanded as opposed to merely fortunate in timing?

Old news FT, you're slowing down. She was the first of the "We don't want an airport near us" brigade.Last information I saw was quite a few months ago, and had no planning substance.

Even if she had had a case, she left the run until infrastructure was in place, and tribunal Chairs, in Victoria at least, have a history of taking that into account and being very reluctant to order infrastructure to be torn down and the area be remediated to its original condition.

She definitely needs a tin foil hat.....sounds really "special".