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  1. Bruce Tuncks
    About buying Qld real estate sight unseen... there was a guy who WENT there to buy a block to retire on. Years later, he took his wife to see it and somebody else was building. It turned out that the block he thought he was buying was different from the one he actually bought. Nobody had sympathy for him..." you bought land in Qld without your own lawyer and surveyor? " was the incredulous chorus.
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    In each attack, aircraft were used against gestapo buildings. In the first attack, great care was needed or the dropped bombs could bounce and hit your plane or the following one.
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    Fuel theft happened to a mate of mine many years ago. He was actually camped under the wing yet they got his fuel anyway. He did run out and had to force-land the next morning. I dunno if this was officially reported, but I bet that he carefully checks ever since. The Newman guy sure did the right thing in his preflight.
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    I have just read a book called "the gestapo hunters" and it was partly about a raid to save several french resistance from a gestapo firing squad. I got the impression that the top brass even in the RAF sort of liked the gestapo and had to be dragged into attacking them. This was further reinforced by the story of the Belgian who tried for years to convince the brass of an attack and ended up doing an unauthorised one by himself. I would really like to be convinced I am wrong about this. But I've got the idea that attacking the gestapo was something the workers liked but the rulers didn't agree.
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    I like the idea if an epidemic among the unvaccinated. Bring it on! Yes, I am a libertarian who believes the government should not interfere as long as your actions don't hurt others. Infecting others with a potentially fatal virus sure is hurting them. Flying your plane over the countryside doesn't hurt anyone, well not as a sensible person would say is at all likely. The mindset of one who would pass up a vaccine shot out of fear is hard to comprehend. They clearly don't understand the concept of "least worst". Mind you, there are those who are not fearful, they reckon the odds against them catching the virus are very low due to their geography and lifestyle. I used to think they were correct, but this latest strain is so infectious that it will get them sooner rather than later.
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    My grandfather, who I really didn't know but still admire, was one of those "undisciplined" Australian troops who spoiled a bit of the poms enjoyment of their first world war. I am only here writing this because of the "Breaker Morant" law which stopped the poms killing Australian soldiers by firing squad. He was a great guy who believed in education, social justice and temperance, although he was damaged ( profoundly deaf ) because of his ww1 time. He never even had running water inside his house but he sent 3 kids to university.
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    In defence of Turbs, Jackc, he did not say your idea was stupid. He said that publicly saying that stuff was a bad idea. I'm on your side in that I reckon in general its the spirit of things we should obey and not the letter. There are some things in which safety dictates that you should disobey the letter of the regulation, and many regulations which are just plain nasty and unnecessary. I'm all for disobeying them too, but you should not do it too publicly. Unless its your last act on this earth, but even then they might victimize your previous peers.
  8. Bruce Tuncks
    Turbs, I really object to the term " CASA's airspace " . As a citizen of Australia, it is MY airspace.
  9. Bruce Tuncks
    Student Pilot, I have had a shot.
  10. Bruce Tuncks
    My hope is that they will count "unvaccinated by choice" among the vaccinated when dropping the lockdowns. And, jackc, younger people than me will live to see the day when the wheels come off the welfare gravy train and there will be a lot of starvation for sure. Resource depletion, overpopulation and climate change will see to this, regardless of any viruses. I feel sorry for the indigenous communities which have been made completely dependent on welfare, cos they will fall first and hardest. Well I need an optimist to prick this gloomy bubble huh.
  11. Bruce Tuncks
    I like nev's point about how tip speed and ground clearance considerations are the only reasons to consider a 3 blade prop. If it was wings, the 3 blade is a triplane and the 2 blade a biplane. If the balance forces were not so big, we would see more single-blade props I'm sure.
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    Their advertising sure is good. But I suspect that many of the planes listed are Rotax things, and of course the geared down business is easy on the prop. What does the Jabiru factory say? I like the idea of a flexing prop providing a bit of pitch change. Has this ever been done before?
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    Once I asked a grandkid what he learned in school that day." Nothing grandpa" was the reply " Seb was being naughty today". So the rights of the mentally disturbed kids trump the rights of ordinary kids by about ten to one. I reckon this is the result of deliberate sabotage by the politically correct lot. Not open sabotage , but sneakier as it is disguised with bleeding heart arguments.
  14. Bruce Tuncks
    I once read that if you really need your kid to get a big score, like to get into medicine, you need them to home school a lot.
  15. Bruce Tuncks
    It would be easier to understand the props if you gave prop rpm and not engine rpm. My guess is that there is about a 2:1 reduction. I spose the tacho just gives the engine rpm.
  16. Bruce Tuncks
    Yep, I didn't know she had downs. I withdraw much of my disagreement with the way the thing was handled.
  17. Bruce Tuncks
    I thought the Wiggles was an interesting case... This fat girl was afraid of the oxygen in hospital so she was likely to die instead. That sums up a lot of the anti-vaxxer stuff. I bet that there would be stats showing that oxygen is very dangerous on mortality grounds.
  18. Bruce Tuncks
    Good point PMC. Rainwater would be better I guess. This leads one to think the effect should be seen if you fly through rain... both the cooling and the corrosion.
  19. Bruce Tuncks
    Only if you put the water into the intake manifold onetrack. Applied to the cooling fins this would not happen. I think that any power reduction would in any case only apply to a non-supercharged engine.
  20. Bruce Tuncks
    Thanks Onetrack. The snow system claim that their thing only uses 160 ml of water per minute, so a couple of litres of water would be enough for any climbout.
  21. Bruce Tuncks
    I'd take that as an experimental find-out thing. As would the quantity of water needed, as the amount consumed can't be too much or the idea is non-viable. Water injection is still in use for racing engines, and I reckon take-off is similar to drag racing. My main problem is that it looks too good to be true, so why is it not widely used? Mind you, you can buy a kit for your racing car.
  22. Bruce Tuncks
    It wouldn't take much to try it... a squeeze bottle and a length of plastic tube would be all that was needed. The spray nozzle should be on the very end of the tube I think. For a permanent job, I can imagine temperature-controlled spray valves doing the "emergency" cooling automatically, well for as long as your water supply was not used up. BUT beware of causing damage from shock cooling. On a motorbike forum, a guy was told to watch out for this if he squirted water onto his Harley engine. Apparently several WW2 aircraft used water injection into the intake manifold to cool and prevent detonation. This may be so efficient it overcomes the problem of cooling all cylinders and not just chosen ones. I reckon there is a lot of fun to be had here to experiment and research.
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    A kg of water absorbs 2,500kJ of heat when turned into steam. This would cool a 60kg lump of Aluminium down about 50 degrees C. So a spray of water into the ducts would have an interesting effect... surely this has been tried? I think that Bleriot was saved by sea-water spray when he got really low over the channel. Surely we could do better than in those days.
  24. Bruce Tuncks
    A king-hit way to give cooling is water injection. This can be into the cylinders or into the ram-air ducts. Yes it is a limited thing just for climbing. There is also the option of Rotec heads. I have seen these on Mike Sharples plane, which uses a Jabiru 6 as a top-mounted pusher. I think there are options to explore before going to an import.
  25. Bruce Tuncks
    Great song huh. But there are just so many sperms that the numbers get ridiculous. Maybe we should count female eggs, of which there would be about 100 million per year "wasted" in Australia.
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