planedriver

Thanks lee-wave, of course you are correct. Just goes to show that great Aussie wine can confuss your fuzzle box late at night. Wing Cdr. Ken Wallis lived up on the east coast in Norfolk I think.

I donated a nice framed print of a Britten Norman Islander geo survey plane. Makes me wonder what ever happened to that, but won't loose any sleep over it.

So do you know what happened to "Little Nellie" out of curiosity? It's probably worth a lot more than it's build cost these days, if it's still around somewhere.

As they say, there are sometimes when you are airborne when you wish you hadn't left the ground. Been there, done that too many times. Pass the glue please.

You are probably at Redhill. I know it well. Just keep the Jabby away from my nephew who flys his models not far away.

Hence the name "widow maker" came about.

About 760 mph 1100 ft/sec at sea level on a standard day which relates to temperature and air density, and about 660 mph at 35,000 ft. Obviously that is air speed travelling through a column of air, not ground speed which could increase the figure by 100 mph if flying with a jet stream

WOW! That was like watching tennis at centre-court at Wimbledon (minus the strawberries) It's amazing the thing held together at that speed despite it's very clean design. Presumably carbon-fibre construction.

Garuda 747 flight to London Gatwick many years ago we had three aborted take-offs in succession at Abu Dhabi, before eventually getting off-loaded to a tired looking Air Lanka 747 to Paris, then British Caledonian to Gatwick. Luggage arrived 3 days later. When boarding for trip home 2 weeks later noticed the name City of Jakarta on the nose, same aircraft that had problems outbound, did not inspire a lot of confidence. Chatting to an engineer on the ground at Abu Dhabi, he said the captain had had problems ever since they left Denpasar and refused to fly it any further. Don't know what the cause was, but when hurtling down the runway each time to hear a loud bang, then engines shut down and hard braking, certainly get's your attention.

Like people that have light blue boats. If something goes pear shaped, it's an advantage not blend into the background scenery.

This rescue appeared on my facebook page and I thought it was worth sharing with you all. https://www.facebook.com/UNILADAdventure/videos/701284040747466

My son had two Merc's given to him, both 1990 -1996 models and they both needed new wiring looms because Merceded decided in their error to use biodegradable wiring insulation, which after a few years fell apart causing fires and all sorts of problems, and very costly to replace.. I'm happy with my 2008 Falcon wagon running on lpg and 400,000km on clock, so it's probably what you call a half life engine. Sorry about thread drift, back to aviation topic!

Yes, some skillful flying in those video's, and I hope Lady Luck lives to a ripe old age.

There's one sitting at Bankstown currently. Not exactly sure which model it is, i'll check it out.

Also did a couple of evening champagne flights with him out at Bankstown. It was great experience and really like stepping back in time with crew in uniforms of the period. Most enjoyable view with decent sized windows to look out from, flying low and slow, to just short of the Harbour Bridge with all the lights below before returning to base. Happy memories!

I love the old DC3's and have had a couple of flights with the late Jack Curtis when Dakota National Air was based at Bankstown. I took my grandson on his first aeroplane flight with him which we got for free, as the little fellah spent most of the day during the air show handing out brochures for Jack advertising his joy flights. I can almost hear him now going up behind people saying "Hey you's, wanna go for a flight on a DC3

Sounds now like "if it's Boeing, i'm not going". I would love to think that it's been affectively sorted before I plant my backside on a Max, but time will reveal all

If working in a confined area, a powerful fan to assist with airflow through your working area will help a bit to save you breathing in more fumes than necessary and let your neighbours know what you are up to. Also wear a respirator so you don't breathe in the fine airborne fibreglass dust strands. Cover your arms with a long sleeved shirt, or you'll be scratching like an alley-cat in the middle of the night. As you'd realise by now, the stuff stinks and get right down in your gut's. Nomadpete is right about the order of applying Carnuba wax followed by release agent before a gel coat, and I also have normally started off with a tissue layer following the gel coat which is pretty smooth and wets out easily, and then go straight out with the chopped mat previously cut to approximate shape. This should give you a smoother finish with minimum pin holes to fill later, and my view is that one layer bonds better to the previous layer if still a bit wet. As also mentioned, try to get a bit of and overlap on each layer which adds to the overall strength. Good luck mate, it's not really very hard to get good results, and if anyone can do it, you can. Rgds planey

That's what mates are for. Thanks Red, well done!

Gee Marty, you were up early! I recon you couldn't wait to see if you had a new air speed indicator, slip/turn indicator or other goodies left in your stocking. Anyway, hoping you have a great day mate, and the same to everyone else on here. Rgds planey.

Don't worry mate, it's coming, I heard it on TV so it's gotta be true. I'll get on the radio and tell him to pull back a bit on those throttles.

However, this is something many should all be aware of. Not everyone is oh fay with electrics and by raising the issue which could possibly save someones bacon, I say good on you RF. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Hopefully not too many around like it, but certainly worth checking. Not easy to do once airborne. All electrics should have provision to be isolated if the need arises.

Sadly, the young instructor was named as Nicholas Brink aged 36. RIP

Try this link https://www.facebook.com/DailyMail/videos/3508999225863219/

Sorry about that, i'll have try another approach. It was a spectacular video of hundreds of drones at night that form into all sorts of Christmas things.