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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 from can be calculated by the engine design boffins

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

If we assume that the covid 19 virus is here for 12 to 18 months before we get a vaccine does that mean that no international travel

In my opinion, yes it does, unless you are a carboard box

what airlines will be left after that point

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

Hey Ben - various authorities tell me that we cannot fly our private aircraft irrespective of what we might be involved with. Heaps were out flying over Easter including many ocean going vessels and various boats. Seems to be rules for some and not others. I encountered three police road blocks getting to airport where they interrogated individuals as to what they are doing driving. Fortunately I missed being checked despite the fact that some of my airport work is essential work. In some cases folk were asked to show shopping receipts. I live in a location where locals are blatantly ignoring social distances, have parties and invite friends to stay overnight. The two supermarkets nearby get entire family units to do multiple shopping on any given day. The final crunch was my underwriter stating that if there are laws grounding us and we break them it could be an out for them to not cover our flights or indeed any insurance arrangements including vehicle. Do you have any firm qualification on all this or are we on our own here? One thing they keep throwing at me is that if we have a road, boating or air accident it would endanger emergency services people. If that be the case why don't they just ban all road users since they are far more dangerous than GA activity - I would have thought. Obviously, we need essential services so that would not work very well. In the meanwhile aircraft engines are left idle until we are confident that the new one world government won't harm us.

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?

Kaz3g, (...) And on what do you base the claim of: “increased vulnerability is grounded in systemic disadvantage and poverty”..?....?.

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:

[in the last ten years, in 35 countries] we worked to find potentially dangerous pathogens. We found over 160 novel corona viruses when only a handful were known (...) We can work to know, to predict and to protect. In this way we can change our own risky behaviours and get ourselves out of harm's way

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

And I would not consider blocking people who are not being repeatedly being personally offensive as not being open to others opinions and facts.

...yet

I condemn the Labor Party for not objecting ferociously to this travesty.

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

Love to see them try and fly at 35knts to annoy me. But to be fair at 35knts they would have time to work it out while I was taking 5 hours to get to the border ?

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.

Murdoch or Faifax newspapers

NOT SHRIMPS!

the virus mutating from 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_.

Betoota Advocate is blaming all the people who went to Bondi Beach on Friday for the total lockdown.

If you squint, that accusation makes sense. Arrogant entitled rich people with nothing to do heading down to congregate because they couldn't go to the beach normally. On a normal day work commitments got in the way.

Mix in all the coffee machine drivers and beer pullers that also found themselves idle and you have a recipie for main stream media gold. Unfortunately, the rest of us are under the same martial law