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The missiles I'm familiar with do not arm until well clear of the launch aircraft. Perhaps it had not armed until after it hit the tanker. And, often pilots cannot arm the missile until they get a code from somebody when they are nearer their target. Stops them doing a u-turn and blowing up their own base I guess.

How could you have an instructor and student in a plane and maintain the social distancing rule? Our flying club has effectively ceased all training until this shite is over.

I think I mentioned elsewhere that Parafield has still got lots of traffic flowing.

Whether you fly every week or once a month a BFR is still a good thing. Some pilots develop bad habits even when they are regular flyers and anyway, it's good to have somebody nit-pick your flying. I started going back to my PA28 ways with flat approaches under power. My instructor pointed that out to me. Also, I was putting the flaps away too soon, another thing I wasn't aware of. None of us are perfect flyers.

I'm under the impression that if there are no new infections anywhere after some given amount of time (weeks? months?) then the Covid-19 virus can be considered to have died out. Isn't that the case with smallpox? Technically that virus doesn't exist anymore, officially eradicated in 1979. As for airlines wanting to be bailed out, I think that sucks, especially when the CEO gets paid more than many companies make in a year. There is heaps of activity at Parafield airport, circuit training must be all the solo qualified doing their thing.

A good part of my work requires an understanding of atmospheric transmission of light and infrared radiation through the atmosphere. I can understand that one cannot see as far is dirty air as they can in clear air but I do not understand how/why that makes an object appear closer. Certainly haven't come across that in my studies. However, my brain has started to get lazy so I don't push it hard as much as I'd like to.....

Who else knew this 'well known' effect? Anybody know why?

When learning to fly (in Tomahawks) spins gave me the willies but spiral dives freaked me out.

Some people watch too much of the X files.

With flying training disrupted we still have many folks flying about in light aircraft. Who's watching the smaller airfields for sneaky folks crossing the borders while states are in lock down?

I'm a magazine junkie - Electronics Australia going back 50 years. I learnt so much from magazines in the old days. Today they are full of advertising and very little stuff of real interest.

It's a bit like the invention of Calculus. Isaac Newton or Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. They each claim to be the originators of this form of mathematics.

By the way, in the late sixties and early seventies I went to a crappy public high school where most of the teachers were losers. But, one did tell us spotty kids that by the time the year 2000 was upon us there would be so many people on the planet that they would be 'invading' other countries looking for a place to live. How remarkably accurate this guy was is astonishing.

'Fission' reactors are the dirty reactors. 'Fusion' reactors might be the go if we could come up with a way of containing the reaction. I think fusion reaction takes place at temperatures between 30 to 100 million degrees C and that's gonna get the OH&S folks all stressed for sure. (Source of info: Physics for Wankers, 2nd edition).

When I did my flying training I used the compass to set the directional gyro every 15 minutes. Now, with the Jab, trying to navigate with a compass that (in hot weather) swings around like a dobermans goolies is pretty challenging, unless it's really smooth air.

cumpass?

None, zilch, not a sausage.

There is a caravan park at Gawler Airfield so give them a ring (Adelaide Soaring Club on 08 85221877) and tell them your desires. Most weekdays and Saturdays have lots of activity. And the Wineries around the Barossa are worth a visit.

Wow, that Bristell looks like a Sport Cruiser. I wonder how the sport cruiser recovers from spins...

M61A1, Try as I might I cannot pry the image from your post!

Gee I'm dumb. I can't see at a glance how the rudder design is likely to kill. Can you enlighten me?

Team America - the chunder scene in the alley - so funny. Brings back memories from the 70s....

Well, it's all because we let dogs and cats sleep together...

Well there's a movie I'll go and see! But to be serious, if downsizing could be done it would still be a temporary measure because we'd run out of room at (say) 1 trillion people, and being so small, cats and dogs, rats and mice and bugs would be a real scary danger.

Somewhere I read that the dumbest folks are often the ones who think they're the smartest. There a volumes of research into this stuff.