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I prefer Johnny Walker Black myself, but Red is cheap.

Check out RAMS Subaru aero engines also.

Be there in September.

I have let Flyerme know, he has one, and usually knows where others are at. He's having a few days holiday down in the snow, but you could try to PM him on Facebook as he's posting pics of his holiday each day https://www.facebook.com/tim.heylbut

See them on Ebay occasionally, try Gumtree. I guess there's airliner wrecking yards in Australia somewhere, isn't there one near Alice?

It took them 45 minutes?

Oh shock horror, it failed ...

I am lucky enough to be at school when the changeover came, so I learnt in both, and it was defineately centimeters to begin with, then they soon went to millimeters. You mean "friends" like Germany who charge 10% duty + 19% tariff = 29% on imported American (and Australian) cars, while in return America charges 2.5% (Australia 10%) ? Some friends. There may be some questionable answers happening, but the questions are solid, the same questions Australia should be asking about our own trade generosities/imbalances.

Jethro, your thoughts concerning spaceframes are pretty well spot on. I've seen plenty of big hits on spaceframes and to say they don't absorb energy is ludicous.

Grats Rick, I'll be watching.

Yeah, someone needs to tell China that.

Awesome, then I get more problems to solve!

You mean "Sir".

Oh I certainly agree with that, aviation is 'Luddite Central', but I have other uses as well to make it worthwhile investigating. ... and it's fun experiementing to boot.

Not the first time I've heard that, that's for sure. Generally spurs me on. Wrong. double the thickness of a solid and you increase it's strength times 4. Loose example, a sheet with 50% hole area, twice as thick, is the same weight (duh), but is 1.5 times the strength in FEA. It also importantly has a much higher buckling strength, a critical factor. Literaly thousands of combinations of material grades and hole shapes and sizes available straight off the shelf. Funny, once you think of it, then how many times you see it being used daily. The seats at a building I was in 2 days ago were all made from tube and perforated sheet for example.

Well I need to do a few test pieces and see what's what. Can't see a downside in theory, and theres a couple of advantages, rivet holes already there being one of them. A Mate of mine here has just bought into a perforating machine, very similar to this one ..

Ideas have to be tested or we just rot in stagnation. .. and BTW, I've seen it done on a fiberglass wing where the guy cut multiple bits out of the fiberglass out and then covered it.

Yes, you may have missed my joke there .. Not quite understanding there sorry, you have a leading edge with a total of 12oz dacron covering? The reason I'm asking is I'm toying with an idea of making metal wings using perforated metal skins, 40 or 50% (the measurement for the amount of hole area, which of course is also the reduction in weight), and then covering it. I have zero knowldge of materials and covering experience.

Ha! we only look alike, no relation. My Uncles were The Hawking Brothers

what's the phone number for 000, and how much does 4-5oz weigh? (1 square meter?)

"Reduce our tarriffs Mr Trump and we'll buy some stuff from you ..." Not rocket science. Well actually it's close to rocket science!

What you have done so far is pick on something, I have explained it .. So you find another, I have explained it ... Now you find another .... This is the last I don't work for the Chinese Government, how the hell do I know what they know? - but now this story has just been splashed all over the World in the last few days, it will be at the top of many Government Memos I'm certain, and I expect some heavy and instantanious action to occur from the Chinese Government upon those individuals. ...and I wouldn't want to be in their shoes considering some of the jail sentences I've seen recently for polluters.

No, "China" is not doing anything, some Chinese companies are breaking the law. I know what the current ethos here is, when it comes to the full attention of the Government what's going on, it will be stopped.

Sometimes you forget the famous stuff in some places have nothing to do with the bulk of the locals, who only tolerate it at all as it brings some money into the place. My Uncles used to be one of the major drawcards many years back.

... obviously never been to a shopping center in Logan City on a Saturday.