turboplanner

........the bone pointed at her by the Kaiditcha man, CharlieTwoFeet, a Malinger Man.

Charlie had bought a new pair of Nike Feathersoles and was looking for an excuse to use them.

Sure enough Missy broke a Sacred law by showing the Womens Business to One Emu Track who had always been a snitch, and the job was done and no one talked of Missy again on pain of a similar fate.

OET .................

3 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

there are probably nearly as many rec pilots flying unlicensed as there are licensed.  no one evers checks unless something goes wrong. lots of pilots out there that haven't done bfrs for years.

One of them thumbed his nose like that just before the last CASA audit of RA aircraft which took out a lot of non compliant RA aircraft pretty much overnight. It was surprising how they knew just where to look for the illegal planes.

.....Quandong nut into a shangeye.

They had Morning Grievances at which every member of Chambers was expected to come up with a new one every day. The Junior Members had the task of "running a grieve" allocated to them by the Uncles, Cousins or Nephews.

Missy ....................

15 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

 

So from what you've said

(a) RAA is bad because they couldn't tell you if fuel is available to suit you.

(b) You're going.

I guess you'll sort it out.

We had a series of threads on safe fuels where we weeded out the specifications, the motherhood statements that had seen people lose their engines, and the Australian fuels and grades suitable for aircraft use and how to manage them with their short time-expiry.  Most of this thread has gone off the track again, so I'd recommend owners to search for the detailed material.

50 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

To what purpose?

If they supply - Great! If the don't! no change! - either way it does not change RAA failure to support a large contingent of their members/aircraft.

 

It's up to you.

If you’re not going why did you raise it? 

 
iOR has a stand there. Anyone flying in who is flying in can call IOR and check the fuel available and price.

I can guarantee there won’t be any Mogas there. That’s a US blend of fuel.

7 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

Turbs -

 

What initiatives exhibitors provide on the day(s) is for them.

 

When I enquired, about ULP supply, with the organisers, RAA, they had not even thought about it . After further discussion, sort of agreed to the cartage of fuel on the courtesy bus (Parkes town/Airfield)

Do you really want me to phone IOR?

2 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

I am still of the opinion that RAA (the event organiser) have failed to support their members in this matter.

Did you see what I just posted?

Do you think he would set up a stand, but then pass up the opportunity to be front and central at the show for all visitors and rec flyers from his region?

I noticed this link www.flynforfun.aero

Exhibitors

ASRA Australian Sport Rotorcraft Association

Ozrunways

Bose

ATEC

Tecnam

Rotax

Jabiru

Foxbat

Avplan

Garmin

IOR Aviation

Australian Sport Pilot

The IOR Aviation story says"

“IOR Aviation draws from IOR’s foundation knowledge of fuel handling, distribution, and fuel management technology.
Through a dedicated fleet of IOR Aviation tankers, they supply Australia’s largest airlines, world class aeromedical rescue service providers, iconic tourism brands, general aviators, and the agricultural industry with a reliable supply of aviation fuel.”

Looks like it might be a bit bigger than some people have been portraying.

1 day 18 hours 3 minutes 23 seconds to go.................

"........wipe that smirk off his face with a little more effort?"

"No probs" she replied and sauntered off.

Not many people know that PooKacka (formerly Convictsville), renamed by the Kacka Aboriginal Corporation in 2023 after gold was discovered there had become a .................

.......come darn heah for a sec so we can have a littke chat." 

Fois always started out being your friend, but lie his women, never finished that way so Cappy selected WOT  bound for Kapooka, Koopacka, Pakooka,......anywhere and .................................

1 hour ago, BrendAn said:

You know all about transport. And you know a fuel company is not going to pay a driver to go out there if it costs them more than they make. I might be wrong, I am just thinking like a business owner 

Mini Tankers may not service the Parkes area, but if they do you can fuel a tractor, generator, pump etc.\

The other truck is a  typical local distributor for a district. The farm delivery truck usually carry about 6000 litres of fuel (4x2) or 16,000 litres 6x4 and depending on the district may have one or two bulkheads to separate the fuel types including ULP. They are usually out on farm rounds every day and will call in to drop of one 20 litre drum of lubricating oil or fill one tractor. In the cropping or cotton area the configuration can be 8x4 with a 4 axle dog trailer.

The 4x2 or 6x4 would be making a stop at the airfield for a short time, just as he would for a tractor.

56 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

A fuel truck is not going to go out there for a couple of hundred litres.

 

OK scratch that one then; they can find their own ULP, why would we bother organising the event?

13 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

RAA responded to my enquiry regarding UPL: uncertain about ULP availability on the field and vague about carrying fuel containers on the courtesy bus to from town.

I think you could be confident if someone contacted the local fuel distributor and did a deal for x number of fills over the event = x no of litres of ULP, and provided credit card dispensing to the wing.

12 minutes ago, facthunter said:

I don't really know what NATURALGAS is but that must be the best IF it's NATURAL.  Nev

It is compressed and looked like the new fuel for diesels for a while. Benders Bus Co at Geelong had 105 buses running on it; I did some test  runs for TNT. There was a 20% power loss in the same diesel engine and to prevent explosions the tank had to be manufactured for several thousand psi capacity. The refuelling infrastructure pumped from Natural Gas from the State pipeline and had to have the capacity to compress to the same pressure as the tank. The tank would sink any RA aircraft.

35 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

To inhibit  the Hummel-Bird motor .

IS a huge waste of my enjoyment , as my demise will mean it's trip to the ' scrapyard ' .

Such a wast with only one granddaughter ,with a love of flying .

Alas  , no way to pay those flying lessons cost . With two sons & a nursing career ,

Just started .

spacesailor

I can remember, on this site trying to help you, and another person who has a lot of experience offering to help you with the path to having the Hummel-Bird flying. Why didn't you take him up on it?

4 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

For Australia I think the total is in the mid teens. NZ (part of Oz😈) has a few as well.

There are a few in N America and many in Europe - possibly several hundred. Used extensively for training, glider tow, personal transport/receraton.

Probably just needs a little more advertising and stories.

.......new aircraft is an outstanding example of aeronatic engineering crossed with the camping facilities of some of the latest off-road caravans in Australia, but without the drawbacks of wheels dropping off, water tanks leaking, radio antennas sailing and toilets jamming.

The CASA FoI who had been camping in one of these painted in camo, towed by a Supoo Outback, also in camo, and had experienced all these failures this trip, became very sympathetic and all Cappy got was a caution about the rude sticker on the wing. What he didn't know was that the cunning Cappy had seen the camouflaged camp from the circuit (yes he was still one of the few who bothered to fly a circuit these days) and dressed as a Bedouin (with make up) had wandered into the camo site in his flowing white robes and asked how the trip was going.

With the FoI outwitted (or so he thought) he soon had the Bushcaddy  off the ground. noticing that eagle's beak stuck up in the air, the FoI realised he'd seen it before.......in his caravan........he reached for the radio mic.............................

.....Khyber.

The poor FoI wasn't to know he was speaking to a veteran of "The Pass" as they called it at the Bombay Club.

Cappy bristled,  and said "If you spoke English instead of that .........................

....be expanded and equipped with robotics, because robots are capable of drilling holes in a straight line rather than wherever they feel in the mood for (and Turbo produced  two photos, one where the rivets spelled out "XXXX turba" (sic) and another showing a precise line of rivets.)

"Which photo shows the robot holes?" asked a particularly keen journalist.

The press briefing ended with a seafood banquet and unlimited supplies of wines from the extensive cellars of Turbine Vineyards Ltd.

The stories in the press all seemed to closely follow the hand out sheets, which had amazing lines about the history of Turbine Group from its start as a single cat farm growing rats as food for the cats, photos of the finished Ermine being modelled in Paris, and a single photo of an aluminium sheet with a precision hole line.

However, as usual there were FoIs lurking under the trees, and one had managed to get a photo of a Bushcaddy with the bulge indicating a Solar T62-T32 engine and the wings bending back at the tips in a banana shape from the force of the speed (4 times VNE). Turbo had been busy and didn't have enough time to do "that paper crap" as he put it so the FoI................

5 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Good luck in your  endless struggle to be relevant to aviation matters . I've contributed a lot of FACTS to this Forum and I'm more than willing to answer any GENUINE questions on all of it. You dodge questions calling them straw Man arguments etc.

 In all these YEARS I can't recall ONE from you. Just a lot of assertions that border on Libel  which if you had  any sense of the risks involved would desist in.  I've asked you many times to stop doing it. It's NOT a matter of me lacking humour. THIS IS an OPEN forum. and anyone has access to it..  Please consider that aspect. It's too risky.  . Nev

None of this relates to the question.

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

That's really funny, coming from You  .Here's a straight question . Were you being sarcastic?  Nev

No, all in your imagination. You  were going back in time.

14 minutes ago, facthunter said:

People are collecting and competing in  these things these DAYs ,Turbs. You ARE being sarcastic. Get a life. Nev

How about a straight answer?

20 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Rubber glove too. The only time you don't have to run when you see them. BMC were also Pushing to stop your average Joe  or a backyarder from doing  the servicing  or YOU on your Own CAR. replacing a fanbelt wasn't exactly easy either.. The front Grille and all of the ignition system was only inches apart. Never owned one   or wanted to either but I did consider purchasing BODY damaged ones and reselling them as they weren't hard to straighten. They were in demand and that's against the other offerings at the time. My cars were Peugeot 203's. Best rough road car you could have. Won the Redex in 53.. Nev

What about the 1940s; can you give us a run down on them?

17 minutes ago, KRviator said:

Updated their lead times I saw, still well in excess of a year-and-a-half wait for all the QB kits. And a near 50% increase in their cost. 

Australians in the post covid era have also been waiting 12 months to 2 years for their cars and that has only recently started to clear.

Chapter 11 can take four or five years to settle into a commercial reality.

Now isn't a good time to be crowing about their misfortunes; many companies come back hard.

7 minutes ago, Freizeitpilot said:

The expectation of deployment in a Cirrus is that the airframe will be totally destroyed, but the occupants will most likely survive.

Whoever came up with that hasn't studied accident and crash technology.

As I mentioned in my post above, Cirrus builds in collapsible items; it's those that are designed to be destroyed; if you look at the many photos they show the airframe mostly intact, not totally destroyed.

Early crash studies quickly showed that the instant stop which slammed the person's brain into the skull was the big killer.

In the car industry Toyota Land Cruisers with heavy bull bars were a good example of unnecessary deaths. Today's Land Cruisers with collapsible components including bull bars along with the same system in trucks saves a lot of lives.

In cars, the collapsibility of the items ahead of the windscreen and deflection of the engine downwards also save a lot of lives.

Airbags which are actually blown up by explosives deflate as the person's torso is thrown forward, all for the slower deceleration.