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  1. Heat extraction can be more effective is controlling heat than force cooling. Overheating is a big problem in Formula 1 this season and they have addressed this by increasing the heat extraction. The venting on the Jabiru does seem to be minimal. I do wonder how much better the heads would cool if there was cooling ducts in the cowl?

     

    This is the McLaren sidepod.

     

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    Would love to see a plane designed by Adrian Newey.

     

     

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  2. I re-posted this on another forum, an Australian car forum and I have never seen so many likes hit a single post in all my years there, go figure.I guess guys who fly planes look down at guys who drive cars 006_laugh.gif.0f7b82c13a0ec29502c5fb56c616f069.gif

    Guys who fly planes look down at everyone, which is easy at 5,000 feet.

     

     

  3. Had a nice flight today at Murray Bridge in the school Jab 170.My grandson Max resting out of the sun under the wing of a Cub.

     

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    Some may remember this picture of my Grandson Max. Well today he turned 1. So his birthday was aviation themed.

    I made 11 hanging planes.

     

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    In his plane.

     

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    The birthday cake.

     

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    Pin the propeller on the plane.

     

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    A good day was had by all.

     

     

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  4. Die Sel.

     

    It’s too early to say how the forced landing of Cessna’s diesel 182 JT-A test airplane after an apparent engine failure will impact the certification program. Cessna and French engine maker SMA are now working to determine what went wrong last Wednesday.The test pilot of the experimental 182 JT-A, N9008H, reported to ATC that his “engine blew” after its SMA SR305-230 diesel engine stopped running.

     

    The 182 departed Independence Municipal Airport (KIDP) to perform a normal test flight as part of the certification process when it reportedly developed serious engine trouble over the city of Pretty Prairie, Kansas, just west of Cheney Reservoir. The pilot was uninjured after landing near the intersection of two roads in an open field.

     

    The diesel Cessna 182 JT-A made its first flight in May and had flown about 200 hours before last week’s emergency landing.

     

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  5. Reports have emerged that Air Algerie flight AH5017 has crashed near the capital of Niger, with at least 110 people on board.

     

    CCTV News, the English news channel of China Central Television, reports the plane was flying through an area affected by violent storms.

     

    Earlier, Air Algerie reported it had lost contact with one of its passenger aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso bound for Algiers.

     

    There are reportedly 116 people of various nationalities listed as being on board the flight.

     

    The source said contact with the flight was lost while it was still in Malian airspace approaching the border with Algeria.

     

    "The plane was not far from the Algerian frontier when the crew was asked to make a detour because of poor visibility and to prevent the risk of collision with another aircraft on the Algiers-Bamako route," the source said.

     

    "Contact was lost after the change of course."

     

    The airline announced that the plane had gone missing in a brief statement carried by national news agency APS.

     

    "Air navigation services have lost contact with an Air Algerie plane Thursday flying from Ouagadougou to Algiers, 50 minutes after takeoff," the statement said.

     

    It added that the company initiated an "emergency plan" in the search for flight AH5017, which flies the four-hour passenger route four times a week.

     

    The plane is reportedly chartered from Spanish airline Swiftair.

     

    In a statement (in Spanish), Swiftair said that the aircraft was an MD83 and that they were unable to establish contact with the plane.

     

    http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/07/24/19/42/air-algerie-loses-contact-with-plane-over-west-africa

     

     

  6. This farmer has about 500 hens, but no rooster, and he wants chicks badly. So, he goes down the road to the next farm and asks if they have a rooster that they would sell.

     

    The other farmer says, 'Yes, I've got this great rooster, named Kenny. He'll service every chicken you've got, no problem.' Trouble is, Kenny the rooster costs $3,000, a lot of money, but the Farmer decides he'd be worth it. So, he buys Kenny.

     

    The farmer takes Kenny home and sets him down in the barnyard, but first he gave the rooster a pep talk. 'I want you to pace yourself now. You've got a lot of chickens to service here, and you cost me a lot of money.

     

    Consequently, I'll need you to do a good job. So, take your time and have some fun,' the farmer said, with a chuckle.

     

    Kenny seems to understand, so the farmer points toward the hen house and Kenny takes off like a shot. WHAM! Kenny nails every hen in the hen house - three or four times, and the farmer is really shocked.

     

    After that, the farmer hears a commotion in the duck pen and, sure enough, Kenny is in there.

     

    Later, the farmer sees Kenny after a flock of geese down by the lake. Once again - WHAM! - All the geese get it.

     

    By sunset he sees Kenny out in the fields chasing quail and pheasants. The farmer is distraught and worried that his expensive rooster won't even last the night. Sure enough, the farmer goes to bed and wakes up the next morning to find Kenny on his back out in the middle of the yard, mouth open, tongue hanging out and both feet sticking straight up in the air with Buzzards circling overhead.

     

    The farmer, saddened by the loss of such a colourful and expensive animal, shakes his head and says, 'Oh, Kenny, I told you to pace yourself. I tried to get you to slow down, now look what you've done to yourself.'

     

    Kenny slowly opens one eye, nods toward the buzzards circling in the sky above and says, 'Shut it, you're scarin the fanny away.

     

     

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