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Few good ideas there, thanks. Case closed.

Any clues on where to get custom engraved or enamel pilot wings badges done? My aero club is wanting to award new pilots their wings once again. I've found www.lukus.com.au can supply gold eagle wings, same as I received years ago, but there's barely any room for anything to be engraved on the tail feathers. Wings are generally about 80mm wide, and won't have much real estate for anything, certainly not a full Timbuktoo Aero Club name or logo. I'll be surprised if there aren't a few aero clubs getting custom enamelled stuff done. Wherezit coming from? Standing by to hear - thank you!

Maybe they think the state is still in lockdown. See bottom of their website home page.

I'm so confused, like I was listening to a Joe Biden speech.

But ASIC cards are required for Canberra airport! How the hell can an un-vetted echidna gain access to the secure airport and display NO ASIC?

Whatever happened to the Melbourne Aircraft Corp (later IAC and AIA) MAMBAs - VH-JSA and FCX. Last saw one seemingly abandoned outside at Point Cook many many years ago. I see JSA is still registered - but that doesn't mean anything in reality. Iac Ma-2 Mamba · The Encyclopedia of Aircraft David C. Eyre (aeropedia.com.au)

Gee, that really sucks.

A third runway (that was always on the plans from day one) after only 54 years??? Shock Horror. That'll make all the pissants living nearby outraged. HOW DARE THEY BUILD ANOTHER RUNWAY!

Crashed onto my friend's neighbour's farmland. He said everything with cherries and berries and sirens went screaming down his road past his place. Flight radar shows who's who from about 0220z. HEMS3 from Bendigo got there pretty quick.

Punkin Head covers for the win. Unless she has a 701 nearby to examine, all she needs is some good paper templates, she should be able to advise how to make those.

Drexus - look here (y'all...) Angel Flight America - Home Page. Providing free flights to those in need. I spent a month in Texas one day six weeks ago....... stuck in Houston for a few hours....

That video was clearly not filmed in Australia. Duh....

Refuelled twice for three flights total now, still can't find Bunnings. You seen it Peter????

One electric motor propulsion on the road, toothed belt to the rear wheels "diff", auto CV axles, disc brakes, all hi tech.

Oh it's real, in Melbourne, it's quite an amazing bit of gear. First time I saw it, I noticed the AU Falcon door handles. Nothing of the helicopter interferes with the car, nothing on the car interferes with the helicopter. The single common item is the right pedal - yaw for heli and throttle for car. It has 3 pedals. yaw-brake-yaw/thr. It is physically impossible to be operated in "both" modes, one locks out the other. Of course, the Pol wrap job is just for show. 8A8 won't appear on FR24, no transponder, no ADS-B. The CGI looking vid is weird - yes. Watch the weeds as it goes by. Not local. That's about all I can say about it. Technology and build wise, I was impressed.

BORKED - "not working properly, broken." Ah, yes, sure was that in the middle and at the end of that baulked T&G or whatever.

To quote a famous and respected naval aviator Lt Tom Kazansky: (coughing) BS.

A mate recently had 98 fuel dissolve his aviation grade thread sealant on his Sonex fuel fittings - fittings that survived for years using avgas and 95. the moment he used 98, all over red rover. God awful sticky shitty mess. (I don't have a Jabiru (plane) nor a glass tank, but great advice from RED.)

Engine was faltering at idle, trying to cut out. All this was there one day, and not the next. Took a while to solve. I had a mate look and he could see some black smoke when it was doing it. Same faltering at idle on base and final but a little throttle kept it going, I never had any fear it would stop, it was just annoying and I knew it was not right and had been perfect for the first 500 hrs and 17 years. In all that time I have never fiddled with the carby. If it aint broke, don't fix it. Mine is about same 15LPH fuel average. My plugs are always good color on avgas - I never looked when using mogas. Exhaust is grey with avgas, sooty black on mogas. Runs exactly the same.

Perhaps describe in detail how you have determined its running rich - and at idle, at cruise, full power, all of those? What are the symptoms you see? Just the plug color but no actual running problems?? I run avgas pretty much all the time, but when I did run 95ULP for about 2 years, the exhaust went sooty black real quick, can't say about the plugs, never needed to look. 2-3 years ago I had rich flooding at idle and it was nothing to do with the carb. Checked all that, spoke to a trusted carb expert. Carb float level perfect, and carb was not flooding "on the bench"- only in the plane when it was at idle. Faltering idle that would come and go. Reading through all of the jabiru manuals there were clues. Overhaul manual - "carb flooding - electric fuel pump giving too much pressure". I don't use the electric pump at all, so it could not be that. The mechanical pump though????? Overhaul manual describes fuel pump pushrod has a 0.10mm length tolerance. Why would the length change? It can't. "Effective length" can though: I determined this was the problem with the mech pump by bypassing it, just ran it on gravity feed. No rich, no flooding. Mech pump setup is (for mine at least) PUMP - GASKET - NYLON SPACER - GASKET - ENGINE. My gaskets had crushed down from about 0.70mm thickness each, to 0.36mm T each. I had lost 0.72mm of thickness total. Remember the 0.10 pushrod tolerance? It's set at that to give the correct fuel pressure I presume. I was way past that. It's just a stock quality automotive pump, nothing special. My fuel pump was effectively 0.72mmm CLOSER to the engine that it should have been, the pump was over pumping - too much pressure (for idle at least) (The pump lever has way more available travel than the pushrod can supply.) Made new gaskets from 0.70mm quality gasket card - PROBLEM SOLVED INSTANTLY - nothing to do with the carb. Why did the gaskets crush? Too much bolt checking? Shit gasket card? Both?

Akker Dakker - Highway to hell. Cos it sure the hell is there now!

Friend of my wife's the other year said "Hey, we saw some of those hot air balloon things over the city. What are they called again?" Ummm, 🙄 hot air balloons?

35th most dangerous sport in the world, just two places down from JOUSTING. Lawn Bowls is a really popular game but the most dangerous sport as well. This game is the highest death claimer worldwide. The players are deeply into the game till their last breath. They stop at nothing short of victory, in their pursuit. Those who escape death end up with bruises, torn knees, broken hips, and bone fractures. The game generates extreme stress resulting in strokes and even heart attacks. Two guys out playing lawn bowls. One is about to take his shot when he sees a funeral procession go by. He stops, takes his hat off and bows his head until the procession passes. He puts his hat back on and gets ready to take his shot when his partner stops him and says, "Hang on. I just gotta say I've never seen anyone do that on the green before, that was really touching." 1st guy replies, "Well, we were married for 20 years, it's the least I can do."

Dan Gryder doing an off airport arrival in a Cessna 150 softly into a corn field. No scarecrows were harmed. His tip was don't stall, fly it alllllllllllllllllll the way into something cheap and soft. And he did.

And not a stalk of corn in sight.