mnewbery

Photies of Narromine, please?

I've just got word many are already there. Not going to be me this year

Worth a read:

http://loneeagleflyingschool.org.au/early-history/

One thing she mentioned to me was that Mr John Bange was a great advocate of promoting women in Aviation (...)

Use #233 for co-pilot. Retrieve important thing that just flew past you in the cockpit...

Got iPad knee board from Sporties. If you are going that way also remember you will need non polarised sun glasses. I got the kneeboard deal with the dual xgps Bluetooth receiver.

The clipboard will definitely work though ... Until turbulence sends it to the floor or somewhere not on your lap you also can't reach

No, really. I expected to see a shadow...

Also I had no idea what or where the hills were. I got some good shots from someone else showing them appearing from the wet sticky and persistent fog earlier that day.

Because the photographer didn't know the hills were there someone said "that's why we haven't taken off yet. Those clouds have rocks in them". Until you pointed it out I hadn't given it much thought.

1980 US Army video explaining mast bumping in the UH-1 and AH-1 helicopters with teetering main rotor hinge design. This is the same design used in many two bladed examples such as the Robinson R22 and R44. Mast bumping has been implicated in a number of high profile civillian fatalities in Australia, especially if resulting in a tail rotor or cockpit contact with the main rotor blade

Fast forward to about 11:20 for the brief description

While we are picking the photo to bits, where is the shadow on the ground?

The highest peak in the original photo would have been Mt Gammie North. This is barely 11nm away, 600ft higher than the airfield and behind the hills in the photo!

The photo was taken facing roughly 200 degrees magnetic and looking down hill into a bowl. Looking at the topographic map, the highest point in the photo is only at the same elevation as the airfield.

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I seem to remember joking about landing next to a pub the day the photo was taken.

For that trick you might like to try Aubigny Hotel:

https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Aubigny,+Queensland,+4401&hl=en&ll=-27.517701,151.643448&spn=0.001368,0.002642&sll=-27.432973,151.719982&sspn=0.347987,0.676346

Without captions...

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Agreed and I figured that out pretty quickly.

Another guess would be the Dassault Super Etendard. Surely not an f-4 phantom. That has huge flutes in front of the intakes, not like these

Sukhoi SU-24?

Yeah but ... We both got ASIC checked at Toowoomba and told it was a relief vishus the attack hound went with the cheetah like he was some kind of self propelled luggage.

In that regard I got pinged for not wearing my ASIC on my forehead (sarcasm). It was blowing a gale, the luggage was trying to chew through its bindings and my hand. Having a stupid lanyard around my neck would have been miserable. So I stuck it in my wallet

So the very nice toowoomba regional council person in the ute expressed some more relief and wandered off to ping some punter in a C182 for run up checks on a taxi way.

One now wonders if the ASIC as a catch-all is something that the public use aerodromes can use to reduce their own diligence and expense?

For example: "oh you have an ASIC therefore I assume you have a right to be airside and know not to walk backwards onto an active runway without looking and won't give me more paperwork to do"

That assumption could be wrong.

There are parts of US of A where you need a pilot licence, federal ID, state ID and an ID for your local authority aerodrome just to get to your own plane. The user pays an annual (not three yearly) fee for each photo ID AND background check.

It could happen here. Once the councils and private airports realise they will have a nice little earn on their hands at the expense of an already captive audience, it will happen here.

Complain about the ASIC all you want. Don't complain if it leads to different required IDs at some of your favourite airports and even then nobody ever checks them because they can't afford a guy in a ute with a hi-vis vest and a clipboard.

maybe we should just show a part of the image :(

Adam A700

Yeah but you let us know it was N registered. Not this it helps much

Looks like a Citroen Pallas crashed into a drone

http://airpigz.com/blog/2013/7/9/jack-ballys-manned-13-scale-b-17-nearly-ready-to-fly.html

With a 34ft 7in wingspan, estimated 1,800 pound weight and four 60hp engines for a total of 240hp, the Bally Bomber is just pure awesome! Be sure to check out the hundreds of pix from the build process along with additional info at TheBallyBomber.com

Incapable of a) going trans sonic while straight and level b) staying in control while transitioning to supersonic

It came down to where the shock wave and flow separation occurred. If it occurred on the control surfaces such as the elevator or ailerons, bye bye. Mach tuck would turn the air frame to confetti. The control surfaces would work like a swim fin in a broken wave at the beach. Badly.

The fat winged P38 had a critical Mach of 0.69. This is because the supersonic flow over the top of the wing occurred at a relatively low airspeed.

Fat wing=not supersonic

Not so fat wing (Spitfire) ... Maybe

Here's one: They still sold laudanum over the counter in 1953 too. We've come a long way since then and I am not sure the Super Constellation would have survived as a concept without serious regulation of the market. No surprise then that the last (L-1649) Star Liner was built just before de-regulation (in Australia) had its effect in the 1980's.

America's turn at de-regulation started in 1978 according to wikipedia.

Hangar rats are getting bigger with each year

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Cheaper royalties

The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.

The next day, the kids came back and, one by one, began to tell their stories.

There were all the regular types of stuff: spilled milk and pennies saved.

But then the teacher realized, much to her dismay, that she had missed Janie.

Janie, do you have a story to share?

“Yes ma'am. My daddy told me a story about my Mommy.

She was a Marine pilot in Desert Storm, and her plane got hit.

She had to bail out over enemy territory, and all she had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol, and a survival knife.

She drank the whiskey on the way down so the bottle wouldn't

break, and then her parachute landed her right in the middle of 20 Iraqi troops.

She shot 15 of them with the pistol, until she ran out of bullets,

killed four more with the knife, till the blade broke, and then she killed the last Iraqi with her bare hands.”

“Good Heavens,” said the horrified teacher. “What did your Daddy tell you was the moral to this horrible story?”

“Stay away from Mommy when she's been drinking.”

It flew supersonic and cost practically nothing to build.