Old Koreelah

Since a Caravan is normally used for commercial work, and extra weight cuts into the payload. A BRS big enough to carry one would be at least half the weight of one passenger.

i moulded the stick in my Jodel with epoxy filler to match my hand shape. Then I finished it wth material that commemorates two famiy members. The grip is wound with Kangaroo skin rawhide cut by my wife’s dad and the top of the stick has a knob made from rosewood, from a tree cut down in 1937, from which my dad made lots of things.

I can’t think of a more appropriate place to leave it!

That Brazilian was flying around in France long before the Wrights, but in dirigibles.

Similar to the story from The Great War about pilots (many of whom were drawn from the cavalry) who insisted on wearing their spurs while flying.

The publicly-owned broadcasters (ABC, SBS) should be exceptions to this, but they also seem to compete for a share of the same audience (ratings?). As a result, news bulletins tend to be limited to the same few stories across all channels. Almost impossible to avoid hearing about the Tangerine Toddler.

The Airvan seems to have been a successful export; I often see them in overseas videos.

Look up “Boron Patches”

Crikey Nev, what do you wrap the chicken bones in?

Not me!

I had a boss who drove his V8 Ford 500 metres to work each day. One day I was at the servo when he opened the bonnet to check the oil. There was a very large rats nest IN the engine V! The buggers were warm and comfortable, but his muffler rotted out every year.

I had to ride 7hours into Qld to do my training on taildraggers, but never “graduated” because I couldn’t keep the plurry Thrusters straight after touchdown. Years later, after getting my ticket in Jabs, I’d forgotten some of these lessons when I was learning to drive my Jodel. Swapping the mainwheels transformed ground handling: it was diabolical when they had toe-in!

Even taxiing downwind can be challenging; one of my groundloops resulted from wind picking up my tail and carrying it around over 180 degrees. Taildragger needs opposite rudder in a tailwind.

Add some Camgard to each new oil fill. It sticks to cams like the proverbial.

Any mozzies?

The Rolls Royce factory once received a scathing review from an Australian woolgrower because their new model had no running boards: ” where am I going to put the dead sheep?”

Here’s one human who gets a visit from a feathered fellow aviator: https://fb.watch/jECUapOr7b/?mibextid=v7YzmG

Another story oft told and totally off topic about one of those jets. In the last few weeks of the war an RAAF pilot landed his Meteor at a Luftwaffe base. He correctly guessed that the other team had had the fight beaten out of them. He reported being cordially received by the base Komandant, who complimented the workmanship of his gleaming jet fighter. He was shown over a Me-262 and even allowed to taxi one around. Pilots rather than enemies.

A story from that era has one local woolgrower going to the big smoke to buy a new car. He selected a Rolls and at a whim, bought a second one as a spare to keep in the shed.

Nev a couple of us have been collecting material on local aviation history, so anything you can contribute would be welcome.

They sometimes also need AvGas, which we no longer have. Turning back burns fuel, so every Alternate requires quite a bit of calculation.

The Lutana crash was the worst crash we’ve had on the Liverpool Range, but we’ve had several smaller aircraft come to grief. Quirindi Aero Club puchased our hangar partly to act as a place of refuge to discourage aviators from crossing the range while it’s clouded in. So far we’ve had a few. My number is on the front door; I get them into the building, where they find tea, coffee, biscuits and comfy chairs. Twice, when the plurry cloud won’t clear, I’ve put their plane in our hangar for the week and put pilots on the train. I’d like to set up weather cams on the hangar opposite, but too many projects at present.

The Hawker Hunter is the most elegant of them.

I read somewhere that some early C-130s were fitted with a form of this system. They also tried sucking stagnant laminar flow into the wing via thin longitudinal slots, as a means of speeding up airflow over the wing.