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......Gina and OT for years and they could often be seen smooching in the Kling Long Nightclub in Hong Kong after flying there in separate airlines. It did look a bit odd because OT is so skinny, but they were happy enough and the partnership prospered until......... A truckie friend of Turbo was caught out there one night after sneaking in for quick perv at the strippers while dining. One of them walked up to his table and pulled him up to dance. He thought "What the heck, no one will know me here and was acting silly when from the sidelines there was a bellow 'GO KNIGHTY'

The resin is the critical component and this paper by Sindhu & Joseph gives some data on the subject. There are many resins available and many standards on sale. Whether Oxidation, UV, chemical splashed etc, some products crack or colapse to a powder and the laminate is just a heap of glass fibres and powder. You can see that a lot in cheap boats which have been made with cheap resin and thin laminates. At the other end of the scale are products like these Atkinson FRP Truck Cabs and FRP Refrigerated Vans. There are still plenty in operation after 55 - 59 years. The FRP Refrigerated rigid trucks have had several refrigeration unit replacements and some are on their 7th truck cab/chassis.

There is video of the Tower asking the Helicopter PIC if he could see the approaching aircraft.

........Lang Hancock and Robert Bunning. We all know that Lang flew a Cessna and was always getting lost and one day he was flying up an unfamiliar valley and found Gina's fortune. Not many people know that Robert Bunning was also an entrepreneur as a timer miller and builder of most of Perth's early homes, shops and factories. Lang used to say "Bob, get out of those XXXXXXX overalls; you have to have a XXXXXXX vision like me, that's how you make XXXXXXX money." Robert would defend himself and say, "If I could buy hammers, saws, nails from 1/2" to 6" and baths in WA instead of waiting for the Camel trains to walk in from the east I'd make money too! "Ever heard of Turbine Bros Marketing Consultants Inc.?" asked Lang mildly and six weeks later Arthur Turbine, whose pub nickname was "Turbo" walked in, and the rest is history, and btw that's why in the nails section whether you are looking in the 2" nail bin or the 5" nail bin, you'll always find nails from 1/2" to 6", and why..........

how does this thing work do i have to say my name?I notgood with these things. Gislaine is detained just now but ther's plenty more where that came from for you Cappy turbie I;

......electronic cures which could be bought on subscription. We shouldn't tell you this, but NES readers never bleat secrets out; you have to be very careful when talking around OT. Outwardly he projects himself as a Gentleman but he listens then he strikes, and he'd heard us discussing Bill and Jeffrey in the early morning NES meeting a few weeks ago. Next thing we see these ads coming up on facebook from "Dr Spick", offering cures online for everything from ingrown toenails to a full blown health cure to pass Class 2 Medicals. Just how this could be done electronically wasn't said but there were hints of delivery by drone anywhere in the world, and of course a money-back guarantee if .........

Still no photo; hmmmm

Save your breath, we're just doing a lot of thinking for someone who wants an answer but can't be bothered posting a photo or giving the depth. He's already said a fix didn't work at the depth you're talking about and after years of sittinf idle the oxidation is likely to be deep, so well beyond the gelcoat, well into the resin, so better to buy new panels or at the very least pay for an assessment by an FRP expert and I don't mean someone who just owns a similar aircraft.

.....their chainsaws to cut up the night’s meal. They did catch a lot more machine gun fire in those orange overalls, but it was only half hearted after Turbine Propaganda (Middle East) Inc. dropped leaflets telling the Afghans to avoid them because they had the plague and.......

Thanks for that; as we see from the USEPA document the areas where MOGAS and GASOLINE are supplied are defined. From that point the blending to suit the two market areas is up to the refineries and wholesale companies.

.....the Shire President really acted up. Following the established procedures of the AUF magazine, He wrote 17 Letters to the Editor, all in different names. There was one from Dad, one from Dave and so on. He made sure they were from all corners of the Shire and all extolled their beloved President. He was clever, and even had some of them arguing amongst themselves when one of them said Green Jacket wasn't that good, and five others viciously responded and "exposed" the writer as a drunk. The letters went on for weeks but after a while the general farming community realised the grammar was always as bad as the President's and the "writers" were forgetting where "they" lived and who had which wife, and who was supposed to have had the best cows in the district. Max was an unusual journalist who not only had done the five year slog at CQU in Rockhampton, but after graduation had gone on to an embedding with the Australian SES in Afghanistan and became interested in which tribes could speak to each other and why other tribes had similar language but were unintelligible. From this he did a degree at Monash University in Anthropology. So it only took him three months of the Shire President's ravings to be able to source all the characters including Dad and Dave. There was even the Chinese market gardener Bok Choy writing to the newspaper in Mandarin but using precisely the same cadence and the Shire President. So he decided to write an expose and started with ...........

MOGAS is a specific fuel in the USA.

I guess you don't do much flying in the city. The PPT can be used for a lot of things especially communicating something after you've been talking to another airctaft.

A few scary things being tossed around here, just be careful where the laminate is structural or subject to wind pressure. It sounds like the oxidation on this aircraft is deeper, than a polish treatment can handle. FRP is Fibreglass Reinforced Plastic. (Plastic reinforced by glass fibres) The plastic is structural augmented by the fibreglass. The gel coat is not structural so you can polish or buff that away, but you need to put a new layer of gel coat on to stop the raw material picking up water and rotting. However as soon as you start to lose the gel coat colour you're grinding your structure away so that's the time to look at a new panel. In some cases the oxidation will already be deep enough to be powdering the FRP; if you have FRP skills, you can grind it down clear of the oxidation, then laminate back up to the original thickness or a little more but then there's a lot of sanding to get it looking like the original, as well as the sanding of the gel coat. If you want to see this in action, look at a few boat transoms. The area oxidises, water gets in and rots the transom beam and the next thing you know the motor's in your lap.

It's the gelcoat and resin that oxidise, not the glass fibre.

.....contravening Local Law No5 of the Shire of Tocumwal (locally known as Toke). The Shire President called a Press Conference, sending emails to all the newspapers TV Channels and the ABC as well as the Guardian. He dressed in his RMW boots, Moleskins, his Dark Green Shire Reefer Jacket with the Gold badge with his name on it, put on his Akubra and prepared to meet the press. He was expecting Helicopters, Mobile Broadcasting Vans and a crowd and he braced himself as he drove int the town, turning left into Deniliquin St and past the Big Cod, but the only person there to gret him was Max from the Deni Guardian. Max's first note was "dressed up like a King's Cross tart...." and said.....

There's nothing wrong with Starbrite, probably the issue is not translated just by written word. It could be that the oxidation which can be cut up at the surface has left the gel coat porous in which case you have to sand the gel coat off and apply new gel coat, and it could also be that the oxidation is into the resin, so maybe take a panel to an expert.

Well there's potholes too but Australia has a lot of open clear wide roads too. It's really a matter of assessing as you are coming down. One guy, in a Piper Arrow, flying his elderly parents to Sydney from Moorabbin had an engine failure in the suburbs and landed in medium traffic on Ferntree Gully Road. He was still rolling fast when he got to the traffic lights and the left wing tangled with a series of steel poles and wrapped the aircraft around a big wooden power pole (so the energy dissipated). That pulled the power lines down around him and there was a fire. Emergency Services did their thing and all three got out uninjured.

.......into strict protocols. Meetings were not to start before the clock had struck midnight which was a bit stiff if your clock didn't have a striker. OEHOR was a stickler for detail, especially where CAT was concerned. You couldn't just say "a D12 Dozer", you had to know the correct nomenclature and what tracks it had. Yopu couldn't ...........

Yes and no. The OP thread was about the Landing Rule, so only clarity was needed. The thread heading didn't say that but that's not the end of the world. About 6 posts in there was reference to us checking changes to Radio Procedures, and yes I contributed to thread drift by answering FH, but referring to Radio Procedures it was a little more than education material. The post-WW2 radio procedures were born out of saving lives in combat or passenger flying, and there were a lpot of people around who'd lost friends or experienced a near miss, so radio procedures were cutting edge and DCA added value to that by introducing systems to match. They knew where we were and if we got lost they'd get us back on track, and lessons learned on the busy circuits of WW2 were put into practice. Then cost cutting was introduced and a lot of those procedures dropped off and you had to unlearn the old and learn the new. Then some people thought they had better ideas and partial changes were introduced and you had to unlearn the new old and learn the new new. Then the States and Commonwealth Governments had a meeting in Perth in the mid 1980s and decided they all would be stuffed if they were going to pay out in lawsuits which were occurring probably every day if you include pole vaulting and axe competitions, so the governments went for a split relationship where the people engaged in some activities had to pay for themselves, and a lot of radio procedures dropped off and you had to use your eyes. You then had to unlearn the new new and learn the new newer and come up with your own safety systems. Believe it or not there would be some people here who went through the lot and felt this behaviour by a regulator of constant switches was appalling. I've condemned CASA for it in the past. So I would recommend people read the proposed changes and make comments related to their operations.

......a shoe tapping, sand groping, toe kicking, eye gouging "influencer" it was best to keep away from if you knew what was good for you. Cappy hadn't read the signs..............

......origins as an Italian shoemaker who had .......

..........ShootingStar:) because it went up like a rocket and came down like a meteor. Turbine Design had made it safe by fitting twin ballistic parachutes made from "XXXXXXX" fairy dust!" according to Turbo who was irritated that competitors were already trying to copy his design. Where the usual outcome for a Cirrus surprise landing was a smashed up aircraft, The exclusive AI module on the ShootingStar turned itself on and started the countdown for explosion on the way up, not the way down, and the cutes were deployed exactly when it reached the apex. As it was coming down the AI module was saying to itself "Where can I land safely; not in that big tree (chute adjusted), not on top of the church spire (chute adjusted) and they usually landed in cattle-free paddocks near a bus stop, like we all should. The Shooting Star fuelled itself. Hank Cook, CEO of Turbine Power Systems Inc. explains: "The usual pilot wouldn't know 98ULP from Ivermecting Cattle Drench, so we provided a button on the instrument panel with a red flashing LED and the words "FILLMENOW". Push the button and the Shooting Star flies to the nearest 98ULP pump, ending the old habit of hanging four 20 litre jerrty cans around your neck, going 5 km into town on an electric scooter and spending an hour spilling th fuel all over the wing. The problem was the intense debates on the premium site "RECFLYN+" where posters started to ask how to get these rules changed, or at least they asked that for the first four posts until someone posted that people who flew nose wheels were girls and everyone should use the barely controllable system from the 1920s, which quickly switched to what a XXXX OT was "and he uses AI" and went on .............

You might. It's interesting to watch though; years of bitter complaints about CASA never listening, then when they follow the normal protocol of corporate fact finding we're encouraged not to talk to them, so the discussions will be had with half a dozen who thought they should at least show up, they'll want the old terms and zones back, and it will start all over again. That's the way it has been for the last 20 years.

Once you get the equation correct and your calcs are coming out to the exact correct figure, you'll get more confident with the result. It's just a version of the seesaw with a heavy mass close to the pivot only needing a small mass to balance as long as the other moment it much longer. What you are describing is why PPLs are supposed to do a WB calc before a cross country trip. I can remember a Member on this site telling us he put a 15 kg tool box on the floor of his Morgan, and lost control on takeoff, luckily managing to get it down. The moment arm from around 50 mm in front of the right seat squab maybe allowed 90 kg in balance, but the moment arm of that tool box was a lont longer.