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If you're impressed by this shot (I was!), then you may well be interested in the rest of the story here...http://www.conniesurvivors.com/1-christler_flying_service.htm [ATTACH]17966[/ATTACH]
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Just had a thought - "Flypast" by Parnell/Boughton might be worth wading through - and I really mean that... it's far from easy extracting specific info from it. Or maybe you've already been down that path.
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Hi all, I contacted a friend who has made the following suggestion(s). Hopefully of some help to you. Regards, Geoff. "I have read several books written by famous women pilots from Australia - - There is one about Jean Batten, another about Amy Johnson, another about Berryl Markham (West with the Night) - I hope I'm spelling these names right. Would they be listed somewhere in Google? Great reads, as I recall. Even though some of the books were historical novels, they included lots of facts about their flights."
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Thanks Darren - do please let us know if & when you find out... :)
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I was hoping Darren had maybe flown over that area again and managed to find his way to the pointy end of the aircraft at the appropriate time...
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Are we any closer to nailing this one...?
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We're into veteran cars (pre 1919): the last bastion (for the moment, anyway...) of no seat belt and no crash hat. How much longer that'll last before the Safety Police bring in yet another b****y OH & S law, God only knows... do it while it lasts, I say!
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"...bits of pipe and rag covered sticks, looking through struts and wires." Sixties, you are a true Romantic - and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. What a beautiful account: thanks for posting it... And how interesting that it was the you-beaut modern camera gear which gave the problems - not the old technology rag, string and tube aircraft!
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Ahh... I think my brain must have been disengaged when I asked that - 'cause my grey matter didn't put together a LAME, which presumably you will become, and AME. All the best !!
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Hardly planet-friendly, but certainly spectacular... Sixties - you & I could well have a super-sentimental session over a beer or three, I suspect:tongue: Cop this ...
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Welcome to the forum, Aerotech, and to prove that you're in with at least one member who doesn't have that "I know more than you" attitude - what's an AME please? This question is coming to you from a B.O.F. who, nonetheless, has a real interest in almost all things aero and aviation...
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Ah - nostalgia; but it ain't what it used to be, as the saying goes.:frown: Can I be cheeky enough to perhaps translate "a band of brothers" as "old farts"?:tongue: Well, in 1956 this particular old fart was at Mallala as a 15 year old for this, and now there's just the sad remains of one of 'em stuck in a couple of corners of Moorabbin: very sad.:frown::frown::frown:
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Sorry, but this is more like MY idea of what a Harvard should look like ... but then how could anyone expect a brainless bot be able to pick the difference?
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Bon voyage and happy landings Kaye...
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Crikey, Coop ... what a rocket! Great account, as ever - but it's a wonder your head didn't split in two, what with that mile-wide grin. So there's an engine upgrade coming to the Auster to match the performance? Maybe a Merlin or Allison, ex war surplus? BTW - what's the level fight max speed then?
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The ankle/heel/shoe/base region must have involved some serious design thought....
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Yep... that's what it looked like to me too. What's the euphemistic term for it ... "uncontained failure" or some such?
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John, firstly ... I'd be interested in your "reliable person" giving us the source of these images. These do not immediately suggest to me what I have elsewhere seen posted of ash-induced damage to turbines. and .. also, please: Give me some examples of piston engined aircraft which DO run air filters on their carburettor/intake system. (please note that I am not suggesting that no piston engined a/c run filters - rather, as I believe, only a very small minority.)
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YUK! Ugly! Any details of where/when/what John? I heard a radio media person (an Aussie, unfortunately) this morning deal out an information gem that "piston engined planes are unaffected by the ash since they have air filters...). Yeah, sure...
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Beautifully written, Jack - and heartiest congratulations. I wish you a wonderful, enjoyable and above all, safe, flying future.
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Excellent stuff, Coop - thanks for burning the midnight oil to get these images up (& thanks too, Glenn!) - can't wait to see the rest of the trip. I spent around 20 years up in that N.E. corner of S.A. and S.W. Qld, and I almost (only almost!) wish I were still up there at the employer's expense to see it all. Well done!
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Welcome aboard Pete - if you're on the south side of town you can't go too far wrong with a visit to Aldinga any good flying weather weekend, and even if the weather's RS, they have a fab. café !
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'nuff to make you weep
siznaudin replied to siznaudin's topic in Warbirds, Vintage and Classic Aircraft
Yes - it's a bit difficult to read. Here's another attempt: see if it's any easier to puzzle out :redface:
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Tocumwal :frown:
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Querty might know... you could try giving him a PM.:rolleyes:
