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I've been variously driving A pick A chainsaw A bypass cutter A push mower A ladder A spray gun A wheelbarrow A drop saw An electric screwdriver A paintbrush; plus I'm still working five days a week in my office I lost 4kg over three days. In the last two weekends I have moved 1.5 tonnes of granite boulders and a similar amount of green waste Apart from working five days a week in an office, none of this has been by choice

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminar_flame_speed From the 1920s. Now on the bookshelf next to the table of red ball densities

The speed of the flame can't exceed the speed of sound without damaging the engine. The speed of the flame is directly related to the length of the shortest hydrocarbon chain in the fuel. Available oxygen plays a part but not as much as the fuel quality. Doesn't answer the original question, but there is often no calculation here only observation of the pressure peak using a sensor

Plenty of project work at home. Mostly being done "under close supervision" at great personal expense. Neighbours are groaning because their spouses are using the pointy elbow and telling them to get with the program

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Tonight... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-18/virgin-offered-$200m-coronavirus-lifeline-from-qld-government/12160946 ..with some very interesting strings attached.

I got all the simulator parts I needed, for now. The Saitek yoke is a bit of a disappointment but I have put about 25 hours on it already. I The simulator does what I need it to do. Its been six weeks since my last IRL flight. Soon, hopefully

In my opinion, yes it does, unless you are a carboard box In my opinion, it will be a small number of new government owned organisations which will contain the management and senior pilots of current flag carriers. All items below are my opinion. If anyone thinks otherwise, I don't mind or care. I am only mentioning airlines that fly to Australia internationally and this isn't an exhaustive list. For example, Air Vanuatu Cathay Pacific is the flag carrier of Hong Kong. Its owned by Swire, Air China and Qatar Airways. Swire and the others move boxes Singapore Airlines is owned by Temasek holdings, another box chucking organisation. Temasek holdings is owned by the Singaporean government Atlas, FedEx, UPS and anyone else moving boxes for Amazon will be fine Emirates is already owned by the government of Dubai through Dubai Inc QANTAS will muddle through because it arranged loan guarantees from the horse-trailian government and is still majority Australian owned (I have no idea who by, mostly investment houses plus Hello World Travel and Alliance Aviation Servicves) by legislation. It will become profitable again in 2025. Same comment for the longevity of Air NZ. No flag carrier means no tourists. Etihad and Virgin Virgin Oz is done. A pilot recently mentioned after the grounding "and they can go to hell too". Virgin is not and hasn't been an Australian company for a very long time. Etihad owns a chunk of Virgin and will suffer from the downfall of the latter but its cargo operation is massive and its also government owned (AFAIK) American and Delta are going to be very interesting. The market for used airplanes is what it is and they will be accelerating the retirement of a number of older aircraft, mothballing others. Its unlikely they will merge in order to remain viable. One could go. If United Airlines survives without merging with another airline, I will be very surprised. This is because of all the US based airlines, it moves the least freight. Regional Express came in for multiple hand-outs from all tiers of government and was only partially successful. That was a really bad look. Rex owner Lim Kim Hai is worth billions so I am guessing he already said "Yeah, nah. No money from me now off you go". Not unlike what the car dealerships experienced when they discovered nobody wanted or could afford a new car. I'm guessing they either asked manufacturers' head offices or were told ahead of time not to ask for financial support. Hence the bleating about being "essential" this or "key" that in order to extort money they otherwise wouldn't get. Rex are still ok flying air ambulance for Victoria and they were (I mean "John Sharp was") very recently trying to import foreign pilots. Can't have it both ways!

From the AOPA Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pg/AOPAaustralia/posts/ https://www.facebook.com/ric.wilson.12?pageid=189656204498646&ftentidentifier=1857184041079179&padding=0 I have no idea what authorities he is talking about... I would also add I got an email recently imploring me to go fly club aircraft and "there was no reason not to". Which is all good, if the person sending the message isn't the one paying the infringement notice

Not sure what the product liability insurance is on each aero engine. A rough guess would be "whatever it cost to make the engine, that is the insurance cost, on each aero engine". Same comment for complete piston driven aeroplanes. Wikipedia has the details on the product liability crisis that led Cessna to stop making new planes for a while

I just blocked Flying Bhingle. I think I know where @fly_tornado went

Ummm. Do your own research on the correlation between poverty, poor air quality and oh I dunno, having asthma at birth?

I agree with @kaz3g on this. FB do your own research. The US new deal was for whites only. Clinton instigated red-lining. White colonialist policy was and is implemented to concentrate wealth at the top through international trade at the expense of people living near the industrial centres. This isn't dogma, it is observation of agreed facts. I'm not going to justify these statements because they aren't mine. They are easy to find elsewhere. Who knows, perhaps in seeking them out and seeking to debunk them, other facts might also be found!

Jonna Mizett from Univeristy of California Davis School of veterinary medicine has taught and lead over 6800 people to find and predict novel corona viruses. She recently said: I expect that these viruses will spillover every 18 months to two years unless a lot of things change

Someone "worked around" about $400 worth of HDMI cables out of my alternative work space, the one we had been setting up for over a year. This will not go un-punished and its not by my choice

Anyone remember all th abandoned toys outside Longreach after the mining construction downturn?

No but I expect to see a lot of rusty pilots and "rusty" planes coming out of hibernation. The expected results are well understood. I'm not looking forward to that stream of bad news around the same time as Christmas lunch and the start of the Sydney To Hobart race

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A fair statement, which I will counter with another statement: When the pollies are in town, they bring their entourage with them. Then, on Friday they all go home. They travel a very long way. Nobody wants that, not right now. If parliamentary sessions can be held by teleconference and still be valid, I am all for that. Until then, parliament sitting would be a sure-fire way to ensure this health emergency is spread to pretty much every electorate. Ignore the bit about every politician and every senior adviser in cabinet being a carrier or getting sick. That is just a side effect. Gosh its quiet on the roads though! Hindmarsh drive at 5pm felt more like Sunday lunch

I was at a G-20 briefing on the exclusion zone centred around Brisbane city. When "the Air Force" says "don't fly" (they haven't said that), please comply. Without (them) being specific, it was made clear they (Defence) had a method to deal with low performance aircraft. If I had to guess, it would involve multiple intercepting aircraft with different capabilities and not all of them would be "Air Force". I can only imagine how embarrassing getting carted off in a van covered in flashing lights would be in front of your friends and neighbors.

... Said a shrimp seller most likely got the virus from bats. NOT SHRIMPS!

I'd love to see that news article. I'd also love to see which science journal is going to print or has printed such a claim

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Local news last night mentioned all distilleries have stopped making spirits and are working three shifts making hand sanitiser. I am ok with that. When life hands you lemons, change recipes. Sorry for the thread drift Bex. This really is _comedy gold_.