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    .......he was carrying the bag. Without recognising the press, R a'C handed the bag to Turbo and said "Thenks auld chap, you did a great job fixing thet much." You would think that after that, Turbo's career would have been finished, his empire crashed, whole populations sinking into recessions. But the Press hadn't noticed the bag or the conversation, or for that matter R a'C who'd just sauntered off. The teals did exactly what their job entailed, (a) Not being worried about the subject matter, or even understanding it, and (b) completely missing the point. The Press had fallen for it and no one saw Turbo quietly step into the Hummer and drive away. When Albo was told about it, he .............
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    .....underhanded scum action of match - fixing.....and he appeared to swoon with shock. The journos were all convinced and the story was about to drop when around the corner came Ra'C with a bulging Wallabies bag and ...........
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    .......and see about putting you on as a junior member of the team. "How much would I get?" asked bull. "151 kina per fight" replied Cappy. "But why would I be fighting?" asked bull. "Whenever we start to do a deal, the Minister sends about 20 rascals after us to steal the money back" replied Turbo. bull realised he was getting the raw end of the bird of paradise, and decided........
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    ......they want more. bull's eyes glazed over. We know from his precise statement of "150 kina" that he had only been mixing with the Bemal St rascals, and he wondered how an upstanding skipper could get into this Rugby Team scam. Cappy noticed the eyes and had no intention of losing good money to an over-eager crustacean squasher, so he.............
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    If it was an outlanding it would have been a glider. Multiple strips in paddocks there in sight of the freeway.
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    Numbers under the wing.
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    Could be a heart atack.
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    ......The Torres Strait Islands. Not many people know that the Papua New Guinea government shows two flags in government buildings, one of them the PNG national flag with bird of paradise and the other a rich blue with tiny light green dots representing the thousands of Torres Strait Islands. Each Island got a budget of one million dollars from the PNG people for bets and roads and picking up rubbish and stuff. This might come as a surprise to the thousands of Shire Councils who show a completely different flag; the rear end of a bull with his nuts represented by a star. And of course we pay $5 million per island just so they don't start dreaming up old massacres and their kids being stolen. Turbo once spoke to a group on one of the islands when he was doing one of his around Australia outboard trips and old Merc seized near Mer Island "Dat Aussie Bull flag not our flag" he said, "we not Australian, they just showed it to us and asked what we like to make it and we said Bullsh!t. You funny people Australians, dumb too" and Italian suit shimmered in the cool island breeze. Over on the Mainland (PNG) .......
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    The horse has bolted on this, with a lot of discussion on various FB and other websites. It affects RA Instructors, RA students, RA pilots and RA flying schools, so I would recommend these people hit the net and see who the players are and what they are saying and how it might affect you. Discussing it publicly just gives them a heads up.
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    ........ new foliage in the gardens was selling at a much better price than sweet potatoes. There was a short learning period known as "The frying Time" but it all sorted itself out and soon the people were making enough money to buy the flying cars. It didn't take long for the Latte joints to spring up in Port Moresby and there were flying cars parked in the streets and Lic Lak, Lok Loks and Lap Laps lounging under the shades ordering 128 versions of coffee, when ...........
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    .......sepic and in danger of being taken over by the LekLiks, LikLaks or eeven the LokLok from the lower village. Something had to be done, but ...............
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    ASIC if we just leave the description as your Flying Car, and put the charging cord in the boot. There was a rush of orders from the LeckLiks of the Papua New Guinea mountains who'd been waiting for years for this opportunity to overcome the tyranny of distance and.......
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    That's pretty accurate!
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    .....Turbo quietly changed the Corvette registration to EV then signed up and put EV stickers on the cars. No one noticed the difference and.....
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    There will always be big numbers if every class of aircraft is posted, but sometimes the description is so vague that it might be RA and it might not.
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    .... and then Cappy realised he'd made a mistake. He was always a dangerous back up on tour and this time he'd brought the wrong film. It showed Cappy competing in the Longreach Bull Riding Championship. NES readers might be wondering how Cappy could possibly be fit enough to ride a bull, but with a sash around his gut and a sport bra, he does quite well. The audience hadn't come for bull riding though, but "Shifty" Cappy asked the audience to imagine the bull was their better half and use their imaginations. Flying Car sales went through the roof!. Very few cars avtually left their charging stations, but that didn't matter, it was all in ...........
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    ...tour with the "Flying Car with bench seat - 8 shows a day. Cappy has mentioned some of the features, these became necessary when in the trial shows and rehearsals, Millenials just stared blankly when the CO2 clouds parted to show the BIG BENCH seats. "What would you use them for?" asked one, and that's when Cappy ............
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    International Scout with the bench seats.
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    ........the layback bench seat. Cappy and Turbo had cut their teeth, so to speak, on this handy accessory. Cadillac had even made them electrically operated ("for your convenience"] and none of them were used for camping trips. International Harvestor was owned by the Mormons, and provided a Bible with every new truck, and at some truck stops Inter drivers could be seen holding hands in prayer, so it wasn't long before their Scout 4WD Station Wagon came under fire as a den of Iniquity. No one would say what this Iniquity was, but soon the seats only folded back 2 degrees and in the rear the seats were split with a console and Cigar lighter. The Ford guys were all expected to go to church every Sunday in their blue suits and red ties (which were showing the effects of a week's wear) for the TEAM, and the GM guys in their grey suits and blue ties, to ensure they weren't fired for some misdemeanour. The Chrysler guys showed up in their jeans and hugh heeled boots and open neck shirts. There were less of them, Soon the whole industry had dumped the bench seat after getting beaten up by their wives. Turbo wanted today's youth to enjoy the same excitement s he had, but ........
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    .........(addressing the very large press contingent at the release; "we live in an electric world; we have the electric blanket, the electric razor to shave every morning, the electric toothbrush, the electric toaster, the electric jug, the electric light to read the morning paper, the electric train to get to work, an electric computer and electric printer, and now the electric flying car. One wag from the BBC (and there aren't too many there) said "But they all have power cords to get the electricity from the grid.!" Turbo, being from the Country didn't know what the grid was, but boldly said "We'll be taking our own grids with us, and ...........
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    .........shiver and consider investing in.........
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    Morwell.
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    The word hobby in that story was a positioning word; if you read it the intent was to show that Recreational Aircraft operations were unsafe. If you fly a Recreational Aircraft it would be very much in your interest not to have your freedoms curtailed based on false information or your training and flying made more expensive based on people's perception that there were 27 deaths in 12 months in these aircraft, whereas if there are any issues with deaths they are NOT in RA. As you know I do push for zero fatalities, but I'm aware that we all stuff up, so there will be an annual figure, but if that figure is falsified for some reason that's another story. I don't hear RA people referring to their aircraft, built to strict standards of design as "hobby planes" and while you could once refer to RC and Control Line aircraft as hobby planes, I doubt whether they would let you get away with it today. When you read back over the threads, if advisors and politicians have been part of the 9,000 viewers of the story, some of them will be kicking the "probem" upstairs.
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    .......the XT582 Microlight can fly by itself. When the designers were developing this aircraft, research showed there was a gap in the market; scottish flyers weren't buying Trikes. Further investation revealed that Scottish buyers had to sell their trikes when they found out they went blind while flying them. This was not due to what Cappy might be thinking, but with one hand on the throttle and one hand on the bar, their kilts would fly up and cover their faces. The designers got some Sceet, some light cable, some pulleys and a small lead weight and produced a cheap and effective autopilot, so our Scottish friends could have one hand on the throttle and one on the kilt. Vision was restored. By cutting the Sceet and making it tapered, the tumbling habit of trikes could be eliminated because the lead weight couldn't climb the taper. Scottish sales exploded as reported by Alistair McQuorkindale (who goes by the name of Mate.) Another .........
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    It's also got nothing to do with Recreational Aviation at a time when RA is under threat.
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