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https://www.rotax.com/en/news/latest/detail/statement-from-brp-on-the-alleged-use-of-rotax-engines-in-mohajer-6-drones.html "Nobody lied in concocting this (cover) story. We remain committed to the EU's plan to commit suicide by divorcing ourselves from the only sufficient, reliable and affordable source of energy left in the universe."

I think (Occum's razor) that they merely purchase what they need. Boeing have a 50% share in a Russian company that supplies titanium components for their airliners. We don't know much about what goes on. Why would Sweden, Denmark and Deutschland refuse to share information about the damage to Nordstream 1 & 2 with Russia? Search me!

Rotax could easily denote engines supplied for military purpose as a different model and apply a different serial no. There is a world of difference between military and civilian trade.

Weapons trade is draped in secrecy. I imagine that if Bombadier had a contract to supply engines to Iran for drone power they would not be at liberty to publicise any details regarding numbers of units or anything else for that matter.

Truth does not reside in one person's stated view or another. Information is promoted by either side and, as I have written,"You must read widely if you wish to analyse what exactly is going on. It takes both sides to make anything happen and the truth is very difficult to know." Russian missile manufacturer Almaz-Antei last October said that the 9M38 surface-to-air missile was launched by the BUK-M1 air defense missile system from the vicinity of Zaroshchenskoye settlement controlled by the Ukrainian military. It was noted by the Russian side that the 9M38 missiles were removed from the Russian Armed Forces service in 2011, and the BUK-M1 system has not been produced in Russia since 1999. No point in continuing with this. 2 sides and one believes what one does. Don

MH-17 was bought down over the Ukraine. Remnants incl. a serial no. identified the BUK AA missile wreckage as a version supplied to the Ukraine by the Soviet Union. This weapon had been superseded a long time ago by Russia but was still in service with the Ukies. The very westy on-side Dutch conducted the investigation and concluded that it was fired by so-called Russian supported 'rebels' from east Ukraine who were defending themselves against deadly Ukie attacks. Russia had radar tracks showing that the airliner was being shadowed by a Ukrainian fighter. No Russian participation was allowed by the Dutch and no Russian evidence was admitted. In these geo-political games there are no rules and the western media dutifully reports the western story. You must read widely if you wish to analyse what exactly is going on. It takes both sides to make anything happen and the truth is very difficult to know. Don

Nothing to do with engines. Just some virtue signal about weapons.

Darkly amusing to think that Bombadier would display any more scruples than say, Raytheon, General Dynamics, BAE or any other arms dealer. Money is money...war is a scam. Who supplied the weapons used to kill 15,000 Russian speaking Eastern Ukrainians between 2014 and 2022?

Grand Rapids Technology make a brilliant instrument monitors cht, egtx2, revs, hrs, volts etc. Programmable limits warning and not affected by vibration as are mech gauges. Had one in my T300 and weighs very little. :-) Don

This is how we moved the Karatoo, Bungendore to Sydney. Don

Damien, I no longer own my Thruster. Suggest you ask Stuart (Thruster 88) or Extralite ( Craig, I think).

Damian, your plane has the Swift pod developed by Tony Hayes. It attempted to reduce some parasitic drag and be a little more aesthetic. Nice to see you re-building, have fun, Don

I suggest an bolts as originally installed. High tensile bolts are great in tension but are brittle in shear. You don't want to find this out the hard way.

Rego of my T300 Glen.

Glen, my comment was wrongly attributed to Teckair. Your comment is correct, very well expressed. Don

Hey Aaron, is that 393 in your hangar?

Never in 100 lifetimes would any Thruster climb at 65kt. I've had power failure in a 503 with no problems maintaining control. We always maintained 50 till 250ft then 42.

So,so sad when these inexplicable tragedies occur.

A bit like using Y designations for locations. JPEG's are universal so why not?

Great idea, means you can remove the pod without disassembling the airframe. Maybe related to the "Swift" project.

The world has changed since 24th February 2022, and it won't come back to the former status quo. Sergey Lavrov told the BBC (and hence, the world), 'We don't care what the west thinks!' Bob Dylan wrote (sang) in the mid 60's:- Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled ....For the times they are a changin' We should be ready. Forewarned is said to be fore-armed. PS. Garfly, i don't get your 'Hair of the dog' comment. I don't care for un-informed comments on my character. I've never had my mental competence questioned by those whom I hold in any regard. My comments are not directed at individuals; nor are they meant to be perceived as malicious. STOP PRESS! 'Biden is escalating the Russia-Ukraine conflict, risking a catastrophic fight with Moscow', an ex-congresswoman has warned. - former congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has warned. '

‘Information’, ‘spin’, ‘propaganda’… all out there and accessible. The facts are indisputable and correct. Ukraine suffered constant meddling in her affairs. Attempted coup 2004 followed by the infamous (Victoria Nuland plus CIA directed) Maidan, bloody coup installing western friendly Poreshenko in 2014. After this France and Germany conspired to lead the Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 treaties which Ukraine never adhered to. It has lately been revealed, through their own speech, that Merkel and EU president admit that these were only ever hollow ruse intended to give Nato and the US time to prepare armies for the proxy war to follow. For 8 years a murderous campaign was waged by Ukraine’s western backed govt against Russian speaking Ukrainian citizens in Donetsk and Lugansk resulting in over 14,000 civilian lives lost. Ukraine was always ‘informally’ attached to Nato. Joined at the hip as it were. The west began pouring shipments of Lethal, offensive weapons into Ukraine in the 2020’s under the pretext o0f preparing for a Russian assault. However, the truth is that they were preparing for a final, definitive assault to return Crimea and overwhelm the Donbass. Russia had seen the west destroy any trust by continually encroaching Nato forces and weapons eastwards. This was an abrogation of ‘sincere’, documented undertakings not to shift Nato ‘one inch further east’ given in 1991 when east Germany re-united with west. No matter how it is attempted to be spun, the facts speak for themselves. I could carry this explanation for ‘ever’ if I felt so motivated. All of this stuff is out there and indisputable. My hope is to instigate some genuine truth finding by people interested in the true causes and, importantly, the possible consequences of this situation. What I believe is unimportant. What effort others expend will be rewarded with a deeper understanding of how powerful are the forces trying to influence informed opinions.

My grandpa told me when I was 5 years old, “There are 2 sides to all stories.” The modern tragedy that is unfolding in northern Europe is blighted by the fact that the western media allows only one side to be reported. Western media relies on three news agencies for most international coverage. These are AP (US based), AFP (from France) and Reuters (UK). Their reports on events in the Ukraine rely mostly on information helpfully provided by the Zelensky dominated Ukrainian govt. Often these reports are accompanied by statements to the effect that they have not been independently corroborated. These reports are mostly based loosely on some facts but given a bias to throw responsibility on “those Russians”. For example the notorious shelling of the maternity hospital in Mariupol neglects to report that the hospital had been cleared of patients and taken over by Ukrainian troops as a lookout and fire base thus becoming a legitimate target for Russian attack. Similarly, the shopping centre that Zelensky reported was occupied by 1,000 civilian shoppers had been closed for 4 months and was located adjacent to a factory used for storage of military equipment. Google images show few vehicles in the carpark. Again, Google images show that it was never directly hit but suffered some damage to its N/W corner from a strike some distance from the mall. The latest “black flag” reported from Ukrainian sources, on an apartment block ostensibly as a cowardly attack by Russian forces on civilians turns out, as reported by a journalist from the New York Times, to have been taken over by Ukrainian troops, the civilian tenants having been advised to evacuate well before the shelling occurred. 10 elderly women declined to move and, tragically, became casualties. The majority of those wounded or killed were troops. The western media chooses to maintain silence on these facts and prefers the story as supplied by Ukrainian sources. What is never discussed in our media is that Ukrainian forces, as a matter of tactics, set up their artillery in civilian populated centres using the inhabitants as human shields. These sights include schools, kindergartens and apartment blocks. This is an absolute war crime. Ukrainians are also using heavy artillery, including US supplied HIMARS guided rockets, to attack civilian targets, most commonly now in Russian controlled Donetsk. This information is readily available from internet based sites. A little effort will enable access to alternate information sources. Do not accept any information from any source as being wholly reliable. The way to finding some semblance of actual events is to read widely and apply analysis till you are satisfied with you own judgements. Not everybody is inclined to put this effort into finding truth. But if you accept the common media’s version without doing this you cannot expect your opinion to have much value. The superb, adult diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, was stating the obvious when advising Penny Wong to do her homework and to read the widely available history of the west’s provocation, leading to Russia’s launch of their special military operation in Ukraine.