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  1. cooperplace
    Desmo55.... sounds like you're a ducati fan......
  2. cooperplace
    great news he's OK, bad luck about the plane, we're all keen for more details............
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    thank you for posting that, it's amazing
  4. cooperplace
    recently on Emirates I was served pork. Definitely a piece of ham, which I immediately ate.
  5. cooperplace
    twin engined aircraft......... reports are that he had an engine failure.....
  6. cooperplace
    brief for a water landing: plenty of time for that on the way down, they were tandems after all! Excellent job that no-one was hurt.
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    1300m, over 4000 ft, reportedly, so they had some time. But it goes really fast descending with an engine failure. Doesn't say what sort of plane.
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    Sussan Ley MP has been made Minister for Health and Sport. She has an interesting background: born in Nigeria, she has worked as a commercial pilot and air traffic controller (quoting from wikipedia). Good to see this knowledge in cabinet, it'll be interesting to see how it pans out.
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    unfortunately that is believable in the bizarre world of customs: if they decide they want to inspect, they bill the shipper. They call this 'cost recovery" despite the charges being outrageous. You're paying for the bureaucracy.
  10. cooperplace
    agree 100% re v honestly do a flight review. Whenever I do a silly thing, or a forgetting of the basics, the best way I learn from it is to do the honest flight review. Definitely the best policy.
  11. cooperplace
    wow, and he's an ex-St Ignatius, Riverview boy, too. The Jesuits must have been mortified. I'd still vote for Tanya.
  12. cooperplace
    Tanya Plibersek is clearly a woman of substance, someone of considerable ability. Ability is important. I'd vote for her. I don't think comparison with Megan Gale is apt in comparing these two aircraft.
  13. cooperplace
    30 years, I know what you mean. It's nearly 40 yrs since I got my first bike...........distressing. But at least I survived, unlike some.
  14. cooperplace
    decades ago I visited a well known gliding club with a view to taking it up, and I was really put off by the attitude of the people there. They said that I would have to hang around all day, possibly helping with menial tasks, and if I was lucky and a good boy I might get a short flight at the end of the day. And that if I persevered with that, I'd eventually get in more flight time. I didn't take them up on the offer. Now that I'm into jabirus, I can make a booking at 11am and I know just when I'll fly. I've been up in gliders and I love it, but gliding back then certainly needed to change. I don't know if it's still like that. Motor gliders might be the answer.
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    that's exactly what I thought when I first saw the jab design: not a lot of power, not a lot of compression. Shouldn't be much of a detonation problem, and twin plug heads to boot! This should further reduce the chance of detonation, if my understanding of the phenomenon is correct.
  16. cooperplace
    I first read about fusion reactors when I was about 8 years old, they were "10-20" years off". Fifty years have passed, and in everyone else's estimate it remains "10-20 years off". Experts in the field have pointed out that the skunkworks have little history in this department, so their credibility isn't good. I'll believe it when it happens, but I doubt it will be in my lifetime. Strictly speaking we've had compact fusion reactors for a long time -farnsworth fusors- but these are a curiosity, not generating power.
  17. cooperplace
    John Cockcroft was your great uncle? Amazing. I used to cycle past the shed in Downing St., Cambridge, on my way to work; people said that was the site where the machine was in 1932.
  18. cooperplace
    wish her a happy birthday from everyone who flies
  19. cooperplace
    link doesn't seem to work - FIXED (Mod)
  20. cooperplace
    he's right.
  21. cooperplace
    That's not right. Their website says they represent 27000 doctors, but the ABS says there are over 70000 in Australia. The AMA is not the relevant body here. It would seem that the majority of doctors query the relevance of the AMA.
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    it's not within their power to do so, nor would they want to, nor are they the responsible body.
  23. cooperplace
    maybe not: he doesn't have a license, so might not have had "check for wings" on his checklist
  24. cooperplace
    can't open this, whatever it is....
  25. cooperplace
    Jabiru landed because door was "insecure" https://www.police.sa.gov.au/sa-police-news-assets/front-page-news/pilot-plane-makes-emergency-landing-neat-riverton#.VDd5JBYZkXk
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