flyerme

Close ?.  A Kawasaki 440.   That is now rebuilt with brand new heads and internals 

Its not just the wire cables either ;). I had to swage up all new strutt,tail and control wires on my old jackaroo. The wires appeared new and the swages wrapped in a heat shrink? I removed the heat shrink to inspect the swages and they were green,corroded/calcified heavely and a couple had been over crimped and split !!!!!!! 2 and 3mm stainless 316 cable and swages fir the whole thing was under $200. On the strutt cables i went with a double swage (like my old N11) didnt cost more than $10 extra for the extra swage that wasnt needed but i felt better having them.

Hi Ian. Sorry i might be a bit slow lol. but I cant seem to find the classified section? Thanks mate

If it’s the short wing t85 with 503 then yes. If it’s the t83 with the belt drive robin you might like to consider operating from a 8-900m long strip without trees in the first few miles ;-)

To my fellow RAAus members,Over the past few days an issue has played out on social media that should never have occurred in the first instance. The Board of Directors of the RAAus have presided over a situation in which our association has elected to register a trademark over a marketing slogan that is clearly, identifiably and unambiguously associated with the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of Australia as well as the international chapters of the same organisation and has been used by those organisations as early as 1949.

 

The response online by both RAAus members and aviation industry participants has been clearly and overwhelming in stating that the decision to trademark this slogan was an enormous error of judgement. Unfortunately our board and management have elected to continue to assert the ownership of the trademark and ignore the overwhelming opinion of members for RAAus to surrender the trademark “Freedom to Fly”. This has bought the reputation of the RAAus into considerable disrepute and has significantly damaged the relationship between RAAus and our peer aviation organisations. The person or persons responsible must be held accountable. After all our Members Charter – which we all, including board and executive members, must subscribe to, states each member is accountable for their own actions.

 

It is clear our organisation has no history with respect to the slogan “Freedom to Fly”. A search of the internet and RAAus website turns up only one reference to it, in the text under Member – Benefits. Furthermore our CEO’s explanation regarding the purported reasoning’s does not hold water and is contradictory in those supposed reasoning.

 

In short the explanation is an excuse in an attempt to avoid responsibility and paint altruistic explanation that it was done for the betterment of other non-profit aviation organisations. I remind the Board and executive management that RAAus is not here to do the work for other organisations. They have been around as long or longer than RAAus and have done ok by themselves, and I am sure their boards do not wish for RAAus to speak for them or take unilateral action on their behalf.

 

As such I feel the board must be reminded that they are a membership organisation and must act in the best interests of its members. The RAAus constitution has been setup to allow members to exercise those membership rights and hold the board to account if it strays from the direction the majority of members desire.

 

I am aware of numerous letters sent to the board, all of which state to the board to surrender the trademark in question. This combined with the overwhelming response on social media leads me to take the following action.

 

I have attached a Notice to the board of RAAus with a call to convene a General Meeting pursuant to Clause 18.2 of the RAAus Constitution in order to consider two resolutions.

 

I invite all members of RAAus who believe that our organisation should be entirely representative of the will and desire of our members and follow those directions. The notices are that; ss a member, that the continuance of the registration of the trademark is a waste of members resources to defend this position, and the person or persons responsible should be held to account.

 

I would like to emphasise that the decision to take this action is not from malice, but rather from a position to send a message to all other aviation organisations that RAAus is a friendly organisation that can be trusted to not only look after its members but be a responsible member of the wider aviation community. Additionally it is to ensure RAAus member funds are not wasted through unnecessary legal entanglement.

 

After all we are all friends of aviation and just want to enjoy our hobby and sport.

 

What is required is for you to print the attachment, Fill in your name, member number (you are required to be a current financial member of RAAus), date and sign. Then scan the form and email it back to me at:

 

[email protected]

 

Additionally, I have attached a proxy voting form for the General Meeting, noting that not everyone would be able to attend the General Meeting. If you believe you would not be able to attend please also print out the proxy form, fill it in and nominate someone you know will be attending the meeting. This is important in order to ensure your vote on the resolutions are counted.

 

Please do not alter the form in anyway, other than to sign, write your name, member number and date.

 

We require a minimum of 100 financial RAAus members, eligible to vote, in order to call this General Meeting. I hope that our members care enough about their organisation, the direction it is taking and more widely, all of the aviation community in this country to take action and exercise their rights as members of our organisation and demand it spends members funds in areas that will help create a unified RAAus and aviation community for the benefit of RAAus members.

 

Thank you.

 

Dave Jardine

 

RAAus member

wrote this last night and recorded on my ipad for "flight for life" Drought releif fund

To help our farmers doing it tuff

I call it " Drought Down Under"

One of the fundraiser organisers put it to a video

Anyway Just need a record deal now lol

Is that the July edition or August?

Well Done Mark

The mag has just been taken over by Mark smith (previously Australia flying magazine) a very accomplished editer and photographer.

He is of firm belief that he will revitalise our current magazine.

He has not long taken over / hand over. So i guess things are pretty full on at the moment.

Give it time to settle and hopfully we should have ourselves a nice new mag

Heres how i do it

"5DME Adelaide Aviation & Flight Simulation is Adelaide’s premier aviation web site. We monitor and observe real aviation. This site is not just a collection of thousands or even millions of photographs from everyone. It is dedicated to aviation in Adelaide, South Australia."

I've joined the crew and will debut at Jamestown Air Spectacular oct 2018

Crew – fiveDME

If ya talking "Cheap Aeroplane". ; heres one of my girls

there has been a couple of boorabees whith Jab engines.

This one had a 2.2 jab. Was for sale few years back

Aerodrome aircaft !!!

Fisher aircraft !!

Just To name a couple

Yes please mate...I have started doing all the manual things now which should take all day and doing the Classifieds is one of them so relisting it will save me having to do it...thanks

Hi Ian. Are the classifieds gone? Cant see any and when i click on my adds only my outdated ads show up and not my current listing? Do i repost my sonerai Advert ?

No wuggers. Thanks mate

Jack. Ill pm you my number on FB. Give me a ring after 6 pm. And we will have a chat ....  5 k should see you flying a 2stroke single no worries.  Or a project   .  To Give you an idea.  I sold a flying VW powered singke seat chinook (used in my youtube movie" The Diary of Jack Flyer - The Red Devil". For $1800. Required reg only 

just sold a vw powered VP 1 needing skinning compkete with eng fir $1500

plenty out there 

I would like to boost the Classifieds here so if you know anyone selling an aviation item please make a suggestion to them to place their classified in the Classifieds section here...thanks

My whing ding did same couple months ago. It had a retainer but somehow one screw came out and starter cord and rubber handle went into prop. Now have to make new prop (you can just make out the handle in its retainer behind my left arm/shoulder

"How many are being encouraged to build?"The HummelBird builder's list was 16, sadly I don't think any are currently active. (I am included).RAA certainly discourages the 95_10 bullder.

 

Some like to build, but even old sods like me give it away if there's NO Chance to fly a circuit in my (our) dream machine.

 

As for getting all the compliance papers & photographs, I gave up Photography to build my dream. now I need photo's of said build.

 

Camera in one hand rivet-gun in another hand & dolly-block in the third hand, typical bureaucrats want more them I can give.[ATTACH]54725[/ATTACH] AND even when I go to pains to make Good flush riveting, they say Not as good as lumpy rivets!.

 

spacesailor

 

[ATTACH]54728[/ATTACH][ATTACH]54729[/ATTACH] The 3/32" rivets are well hidden, in the reverse photo rivet!.

Some of us still do fly "real ultralights" ;)