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I thought you were in the transport industry?

The road statistics are pretty good these days collating the victim numbers and ages by a number of variants, but the causes would make the Bros Grimm proud.

I was having lunch in a local hotel today and a stack of bikies came pouring in and started to push tables together. They'd just been to the funeral of a female club member. She'd been killed in a pothole accident; five riders were injured, she was the one that died. The guy I was talking to wasn't sure who hit the pothole. Victoria currently has about a million potholes, all about 450 mm dia, all from 50 mm to 400 mm deep....like wells, all on the LH car/truck tyre line, many hard to see because there's no gravel spill.

Out of date now, too many people were getting the filters off so the engine designers mounted them upright, but under the vehicle near the sump, so you need two; one which loosens the filter from the top, which also needs a knuckle joint to get under some electronics and one to spin the filter on its top from underneath.

We went through that phase more than 20 years ago, starting with common rail systems, multi injections etc. Today we've caught up and beaten those old non EGR engines by so much they aren't worth buying at the wreckers. Also today, EGR is just one of three or four base engine systems.

In motor vehicles, we started taking visible particulates (black smoke) out of diesel exhausts in 1976. By 1992 we were down to about Ringelmann 3 (slight haze). Since 1992 we have reduced diesel particulates by 98.4% of the 1992 PM levels.

Yes. The automotive and transport industries are the leaders in this. Emissions are regulated from the time you turn the key on until you turn it off. Static Industries are way back in the dark ages with politically tainted legislation which allows them to emit but then average what they emit over 24 hours and that's on top of higher emissions anyway.

......way down the strip. As odd as this should have appeared, they were lost in the usual nightly traffic of dudes from Shanksville Ohio mooningeveryone from Cadillac convertibles to Rockers, hair Brylcreamed in Chopped A Models, to people dressed in Astronaut suits, to Rightly Cornute's gen shop where he stores Wayne Newton's suits. Eventually they could be seen parked near landmarks saying "What's up Dude, y'all wanna buy ma solid gold chariot? And eager buyers from Shreveport Louisiana saying .......................

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I had squares of 12 mm ply cut, fitted roller bearing castors and sat the scales on the ply. That let the tyres push where they beeded to and was able to get repeatable figures ........................on a level concrete floor.

I'm not sure, but it could possibly be as a result of fatalities of Instructors when doing them in non-CASA aircraft. I've definitely seen a report on one, possibly two, going back a few years but eventually a decision based on risk may have kicked in.

Unfortunately the question of training has been raised; certainly at the conclusion of a full training course with satisfactory industry benchmark pass figures that's a good tick of responsibility, but behaviour is a risk factor.

....anyone except those who had been cremated, because they'd lost the ability to control the aircraft and wouldn't listen to instructions, even from Epaulette. North Las Vegas Airport was a hive of acitvity every Saturday morning as the glitterati arrived with a trailer load of Ultralight parts and some could still be seen in the afternoons trying a tube here or there or there, or trying to start the Blueheads before calling "Bluehead Bernie" who helped out every time with his ratchet gun. By late afternoon there were Ultralights downed in every second street of Vegas as famous people misjudged the fuel consumption. By evening ............................... Not many people know that Howard Hughes was the first person to build an Utralight. He tried to build one out of gold. His mistake was rushing into the protect without checking the weight of the material. He managed to make a beautiful streamlined cylinder, and even overcame the fuelage blowups when the Las Vegas pilots took them to 30,000 feet because "That's the height I always fly at". What he couldn't solve was the tendency of the Hughes U2 to nose over and plop down off the edge of the runway unless to rotated at 200 kts or more.

Note that this hearing is still in progress.

NOx has been reduced in motor vehicles since the 1976 model year in Australia via the Australian Design Rule system and had been reducing to 1992 when major reductions started because it is one of the causes of Lung Cancers. Since 1992 in Australia we have reduced NOx in new vehicles by 99.4% on the 1992 figures. We pay a lot of money for this on new vehicles, and it would be interesting to see if there were any statistics on a parallel reduction in lung cancers.

You take a big risk working on the advice of "some forums". The comments posted below are a good example of where the flame can go, and it looks like it's going to go a lot further than that.

Nose down into the ground before it reached the runway.

That's two that didn't make the end of the runway in a month.

.......was so popular that he was signed for a six months Residency at the pub, which put him in the same bracket as current Las Vegas Headliner Residencies Rod Steward, Adele, Wayne Newton, Donny Osmond and Garth Brooks. Theth flew a Thruthter at the weekends when he could get away without having to glue on all those feathers, and it wasn't long before ................

.....firth in the family throng enough to fly from Thepparton to New Thouth Waleth under my own power." This was greeted by hoots in the local pub that night and so he was forced to superglue his feathers one and .......................

Let's put it this way; if you want to post a letter, you don't go to the pub. There was no last hurdle because there was no horse race.

I've read the above linked documents. I don't believe there was anything there that would normally be used to get an airport going. It was a case of talking to the wrong people and not understanding the correct process. The people they contacted should have been more forthright and it wouldn't have extended the way it did. However, the main issue here is Goulburn Airport.

Development Applications (DA), like their equivalents in every other State and Territory are processed and approved or rejected by Local Government i.e. the local Council. Where someone is not happy with the Council decision on the property, they have the right to take the matter to the State Tribunal. At the Tribunal they can only raise matters which contravene the Planning Scheme, or don't fit the description - for example a Church 90 metres tall designed for 600 people has a scale too great for a green belt area. Where the State is concerned about a completely inappropriate development, the Minister for Planning can "Call In" the DA before the Tribunal Hearing starts, and rule it out or in following a process which in some cases includes setting up a Planning Panel to hear the matter and report back to the Minister, who makes the final decision. Based on that, the location of this site is unilkely to somehow be influenced by either the NSW Government or ACT Government or Federal Government. No one has mentioned a DA in relation to Williamsdale, so maybe someone has the bull by the horns, which often happens. The State or Territory sets its broad Planning Scheme; how they want the State/Territory to look, with all the parts fitting together, and the Commonwealth Government doesn't step into matters of each Sovereign State.

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When Icarus heard this he gained the strength to fly forward, He'd reached Jamaica by the time Jacqui showed up; Cappy, always a copier had stuck his own feathers on with Gorilla Glue. The problem was they were turkey feathers and he only had a one pack and that was all down. Jacqui ..................