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"They Australian women" said Aki.

"You're right" said Taka, let's get back to The Plan

"You think we should stop at Darby, see Tomo?"

"Maybe, said Taka. Japanese sounding name and he also squinty eyed, and he mechanic. Not good one, but maybe check aircraft for crossing of Tolles Strait Irand by Irand."

Yeah, got a few birth defects which occurred when I was about two.

To rest your fears I did find a good town planner but he was outmanouevred by the brown bag brigade.

I certainly have to deal with some bad ones.

What goes around comes around

Apparently a poster, who on another site had implied that we were a rabble incapable of handling CTA, appears to have been caught in his own crossfire, after accusing a GA pilot of unsafe flying.

It seems he was then silly enough to identify himself, and followed that up by an alleged infringement of CTA…….in his GA registered aircraft.

Could be some ATSB mail coming his way I’m told.

Already, I’m told he’s been deleting hundreds of posts and one or two of his “identities”, just a little too late.

His new-found status as Aviation’s Dufus should remove a lot of the anti RAA clutter we’ve had to put up with.

What goes around comes around.

"Lat showing signs of CRAFT" said Taka, he think WE organising dinner when THEY organizing dinner and we organizing escape in their pranes"

"Well if he so forgetful, let's make friend of him, may be useful to us later" said Michio, and they all stared at him in wonder.

So it came to pass that the Japanese prisoners brefriended the Rat and asked for drill lessons in the Prison Camp ground.

To an Australian, this might seem like a stupid idea, but that's how they were trained to fly.

Twenty four hours before the mission they were taken out to a Zero and shown the instruments.

"When needle on thingy get to 70, use slight back stick, then forrow reader to destiny" the trainer would say.

If they asked how to get down he would tell them it would all be instinct after they dropped their bombs. Some instinct.

So they went back to drilling with the Rat in the lead.

"Flip flop, flip flop went the rat's Nikes, and his tail swung from left to right as he led the long line of airmen with his rodentic gait.

It had been raining and the Rat had put on his parkha.

"Flip flop, flip flop", and the beat became louder as they all mimiced him out of his sight.

They began to wiggle their bums to mimic the rat-like waddle, and there were a few sniggers which the Rat missed.

Then, as Taka, who was the life of the party noticed the Rat's tail dangling down below the parkha, he turned to Aki, pointed and said "Lat PUSSY CAT!" and there was a roar of laughter.

The Rat turned and snarled so hard his gold prosthesis fell out.....

The 'Lat" stopped abruptly as he realised he'd started to list the Breakfast Menu of his own establishment.

"Werr" said Chef Nobu " Cowla is rargery Pidgin flee, as the Brue Gum have Teriyaki Pidgin, Shabu Pidgin, Sashimi Pidgin (it stirr chirp'n), Butterfry Pidgin, Pidgin wiff Duck sauce and ..............

The PowerPoint of my Turbo is at the Shire Hall in the Pubric Meeting

".....Rocal dish, flied clow with plenty Wasabe sauce".

Turbo drop bombshell in meeting, much intake of breasts, gnashing of teeth, lucky no row frying pidgins

Relax SB, we've all done that. Nothing seems to be coming together, then slowly all the skills start building in your subconscious, you've got more time to think, and things become routine.

No a good idea to start a lesson tired though, slows down you reaction time and makes it harder.

Good luck.

"No one terr us nuffing Tomo"

Ever wondered about the "planner" part of my name Watto?

I'm sitting here with a truck load of machine guns [not really Feds] and you're insisting on using bows and arrows [again Feds, figuratively speaking]

You've got the picture Merv. The only way to draw a line in the sand is to have the protection of the Fed Gov.

The way to that involves communication, otherwise how will they know?

Read some of the older books and you'll see a pattern of how the guys worked their butts off in the 20's to get aviation away from the itinerant joyrider culture where the pilot lived under the wing in the nearest paddock.

How hard they worked, year after year to establish aviation in this country until most people could afford to fly if they wanted to.

Is that level of work being done now for future generations?

The big picture is that once the federal Government decided to offload its airports to private industry, the inevitable search for profit made our airports targets for sub letting the land to DFO's etc. and selling the land for development.

Not one of our airports is even close to the traffic volume/residential population mix of Van Nuys, so we should not be under any pressure at our City airports.

The fact that we are, and the fact that we are losing country airports for industrial development etc (albeit with rosy names like "freight hubs") is an indicator of the mistakes that were made a few years ago.

A byproduct of this, well known to planners is the use of emotional arguments for ulterior gain.

e.g. "We need to limit aircraft in the circuit."

When you pull the exact statistics, you find traffic is down from previous years, you ask yourself why, and then you look at that big "spare" runway which could produce a lot of profit rented out to factories.

As the costs of flying are squeezed up, less people can afford to fly, so the airfield becomes more marginal to oerate, and factory rentals look a much better proposition to the owner.

The lever you talk about is your local member of Parliament.

How many people here have actually spoken to one, and spelled out the problems we face, and shown him/her the consequences of that foolish decision taken some time in the past?

Don't just read this and sigh. Go on the Web, Search for Parliament, find out your member and ask him/her if you can come in and talk - that's what we are paying him/her to do.

Wish I was going - would love to see the Zero warbirds flying???

"You stay in Snake Gurry" said Aki, but rook up or day.

"Many years ago we unroad cordite from guards 303s just in case of accident, now found a use.

"When fire start in dlum, Lat & Co get big surplise. We lun for Jabaloos, they can't see us and we take off"

"We understand we have to do reft hand circles, so some time we orbit over Snake Gurry, and we give you the finger"

"You done fer eber now diDot" said Aki

"Why you not show us torpedo before in last battle?"

"Those guys must have had big propellant charge to get all way from Sydney Harbour"

"What happen to Darby Airshow - it disappear?"

"What aircraft coming? Two Dlifter?"

Race engine builder Skyhog.

All the failures your refer to are in a common location

I'm not pointing a finger at the L2, there could easily be another common denominator.

(eg the majority of truck cab failures these days occur between Gympie and Townsville)

To get real numbers, engine manufactures need a sample of at least 1000, and quote (not to you as car buyers though) a failure rate per 100, 3 per hundred being pretty good.

"Sitlep!, Sitlep!" called Aki

"What Sitlep?" asked Taka

"Get from Americans, Can't rick 'em, join 'em" he said

"Gather round boys, have some Intel....and don't ask what intel is Taka"

"Big Lat with wrong tail, whiskeys, no hair on bores send message.

"Cowla Fry in becoming organised, with some BNS features rike Circle Work - roun, and roun, and roun. Prenty noise, prenty smoke.

"Lat entered, figure Jabaloo win hands down, if not wing down.

"He also ask for dlum, cut holes, put fire inside for heating.

"STOP doing that Michio! go outside - we call you Srati if you keep that up"

Yes rick-p, I wonder what the sample numbers are this time, and what the standard of maintenance is.

Taka was confused. he'd never heard of subs before.

"We gleatly appreciate your efforts" he said to Captain (who really was Captain Honda of ES Holbrook "you neary made it to Cowla, probry get there quicker than Hi Ho Siver, but why you not walk on and stay with us?"

"Waiting on orders from Admiral Suzuki, but he gutress" said Captain Honda.

"Couldn't you have spoken to Admiral Yamaha?" asked Taka

"Tried to but he missing every time power needed" said Capitain Honda, "Then Admiral Suzuki find out I go behind back and say "You go to Yamaha behind Suzuki to get benefit for Honda, I give you bick knobby tyre skid mark up back".

"So sit at Horbrook for 67 years"

"Bart Symphony"

"The Wind Section"

"Look like they bleeding!"

"why he not just low back?"

"What you rarfing at you rot!"

"It Woorroommoorroo, you Bunghole, Mexican rorry wlapper dlopper" responded Acki incledurouly. "That where my other naval mate went in his Sub when he ............

"finish eating breakfast of crover at Lathaus" said Aki "he tell me he expect toast, marmarade, cafe ratte, river and kidleys, and polt to finish, but onry get crover. No wonder lates so row".

...send seclet dit dot message to hiding submarine detachment in sydaly.:peepwall:

"Hope he not underglound near Darby where Lam's bores bulied" said Taka " could be smerry"

"This funny day!" said Taka "Turbo trying to write speech for important pubric meeting tomorrow night, rearise haf speech in Japanese!"