Kiwi303

finely chopped? Sounds like different goo. The stuff I know is thin, slippery, sort of pinkish and definitely just a fluid without added fibre. Almost the consistency and slip of KY lube. I wouldn't use it with the missus tho, it is a room temperature vulcanising rubber similar to the RTV extrudable gasket tubes in SuperCheapAuto, You'd end up with a intimately personalised protective rubber... It dries on the inside of the wheel, bonding to the inside of the carcase and effectively forms a single skin patch right around the tyre inside. No use on sidewall holes, but just fine on thorns and smaller nails through the tread.

What sort of diesel do you have over there in Aussie? Here I can buy diesel in midsummer with 30 degree days for the tractor and have it sit in a 20L jerrycan until midwinter with -10 and it pours just fine and the tractor runs without a problem. No visible difference and viscosity change from +30 and -10 is minuscule, it still pours and flows just fine.

The problem with those goo type sealants is the wheel must be continuously rotated until the liquid inside the tyre has fully solidified and evenly coated the entire inside. If you just pour it in and let it sit it will pool at the bottom of the tyre and form a lump which then means the tyre is unbalanced.

The bottom picture is a Gorgon missile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_%28missile_family%29 The flat thing is a ramjet, the sleek missile is a heavily weighted high speed research testbed, drop like a bomb and so sleek and fast it gave transonic data useful for designing supersonic stuff. http://napoleon130.tripod.com/p61blackwidow/id49.html "proposed the dropping of recoverable models from a high-flying airplane. Thus as the icing work began to phase out in 1947, Ames developed the technique for recovering intact, by means of air brake and parachute, instrumented test models dropped at high altitudes from an airplane. In this way aerodynamically clean models, if dropped from a sufficiently high altitude, would traverse the transonic range and, indeed, reach low supersonic speeds before they had to be braked for a landing." The link with the information is actually given in the blog. napoleon130.tripod.com is listed under the pictures.

I've had a RNZAF C130 out of Blenheim/Woodbourne go down the valley BELOW me while on the quad on the ridgeline of the farm, following the Buller River that forms one boundary of the farm.

I gave up on the way though Hong Kong.. . Spent a year in China, 7 Yuan a pack of 20 readymades, that's $1.20 Kiwi at the time. Got to Honkers, $45 HKD a pack, or around $9ish Kiwi, Nah, too much. got back to NZ and they want around $16 for a CHEAP pack of 20!!!

When you get down to it, English is not a native written form. It borrows from Latin for most of its letters... For a native English script you would have to go back to Celtic runes, which are in themselves, adaptations of Norse runes. Ogham, the Irish tree runes are more native to the British Isles than what we now know as English.

CJ6A... Google says 375 nautical miles range... With that you could probably do Canada-Greenland-Iceland-Faroes-UK-EU-Greece-Turkey-Cyprus-Egypt-Jordan-Saudi-Dubai-Oman-Pakistan-India-Bangladesh-Thailand-Indonesia-Australia-Dubbo-Caloundra A little long perhaps, but possible. Better grab a lottery ticket to cover the Handling and fuel fees. :D

Never looked at a map of Australia? :D It might be in the roman alphabet the English brought along, but a whole bunch of those place names aren't English!

I had a look at the website... What I like is the range... 1900Km at 55% power and 230Kmhr or 2300Km at long range cruise and 190kmhr. At 55% power you have the range to skip Norfolk Island and jump straight from NZ to Lord Howe Island with 350Km or 750km in reserve at those speeds. It's WAY outside my price range, but it makes trans-tasman fly-ins possible if still somewhat impractical :P Hopping aboard jetstar may be more practical, but if you're going to visit the cuzzies, why not do it the fun way? Being single I wouldn't need room for the wife, unlike K-man,

Getting into dogfight range is actually pretty easy even against a BVR missile armed fighter... Especially if the opponent is China (Current target of the "Pivot to the Pacific") with hordes of old J-7 and other MIG-21 based cheap legacy fighters they can afford to throw away. All the data I have seen for the F-35 is max 8 internal missiles, normal carriage 6, 4 AMRAAM + 2 AIM-9, Air-2-Air predicated on the basis of clean exterior and internal missiles only to minimise radar reflection from untidy reflective outer attachments. So all the Chinese have to do is throw 8 old scrap fighters with the most disposable just-out-of-flight-school pilots per J-35 at incoming flights as cannon fodder to soak up the defensive fire, backed up with a modicum of J-10 or J-17 modern higher performance dogfight capable fighters with a full load of cannon shells and heat seekers to actually make the kill. China has the numbers to do it, and the ability to view pilots as expendable resources. Plus the non-stealth fighters don't sacrifice speed and streamlining to the curves and stealthy shapes needed for radar minimization, you can see them on radar from further away with shorter wavelengths, but they can catch up any F-35 trying to run away. Stealth is not invisibility either, it is a lower return, not zero return. So while a legacy aircraft may be detected at 50 miles by radar of a certain power output and sensitivity, a "stealthy" fighter may only be detected at 15 miles. But that is only for certain wavelengths, I've read various scattered reports on different sources stating that Australias big ground based OTH radar has picked up B2's in flight between Guam and Diegos Garcia (sp). Even if a big array like that can only manage a 10 mile circular error of position, that's still enough to vector in a flight of mark 1 eyeball guided cannons to search. For every military technological advance, somewhere someone is working on a way to negate that advantage.

Plenty of cheap crap there, from the looks of a lot of what I saw in the back street stalls it is seconds and factory rejects. With a price reflecting that. But yeah, a lot of my friends over there would pay extra for a "Made in XXX" sticker where XXX did not equal China.

Just off the top of my head, they received about 3 or so ME-109's plus licencing rights to build them, but preferred the Zero. They only had one inline fighter, the Ki-61 above, which was retrofitted with a radial engine and became the Ki-100. I haven't read the link above as I am on slow mobile data here over the cellphone in a rural valley but I wouldn't be surprised if the Ki-61 was a ME-109 since I do know the engine for the Ki-61 was a german design and only one plant was making it until being bombed into pieces. Whereas the Japanese radial fitted to make the -61 a -100 was made far more widely as it was a common fitment to Jap planes, like the Merlin in England.

On the top of the damped down fire. in summer the kitchen bench is warm enough, any time the kitchen bench isn't warm enough, the fire is going. If the fire is roaring, it's too hot so they go on the piano stool set a meter or so to the side. I used the recipe on the first page of this thread, with the suggested added milk another poster advised and switching out one of the cups of flour with a cup of wholemeal flour. The loaf tins are sized for a 5 cup recipe, my sister usually makes a 3 cup wholemeal to 2 cups white flour recipe but I was wanting a whiter bread so tried this. Had an overflow so made some baps and we had hamburger for dinner. Quite nice, it rose better and was less crumbly than the recipe my sister uses, I asked and it turns out she doesn't add any oil or butter.

You should see my mother try to read a PDF with Adobe Reader on a 7" tablet! She keeps her finger on the screen and it thinks she's resizing or reorientating it, some people just can't understand WHY technology is so HARD. She just can't get her head around "Take your finger off the screen after stroking up to scroll down" just leaving it sitting there and the tablet goes nuts. Old Dogs, New Tricks comes to mind.

That photo actually looks like you are on the north bank in Jiangbei looking across at Yuzhong, rather than being in Yuzhong near the meeting at Chaotianmen. I lived for a while a in Nan'an district, on the south bank of the river, at the campus on Xuefu Dadao, University Avenue is a close translation for the non-chinese speakers on here :D there were 4 universities spread along the several Km from the river to Ba'nan district in the south, plus more within a couple of blocks each side of the road. I'd often go up to Jiefangbei in Yuzhong district, quite often to Hongyadong where a tea shop had a nice view over the river and earl grey tea. Plus Subway of course, other than McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut about the only western food around if you didn't feel like cooking your own. Never got as far as Chengdu :D I explored south. Flight to Guilin in spring festival between the semesters, last week Jan 2012, few days looking around, bus with a student to a town near her home village, met her family and saw small town life in Guangxi, bus to Wuzhou, few days looking around there, bus to Guangzhou and later Shenzhen, through Honkers to the airport and 5 days escaping a continential winter with 5 degree days in the tropical heat of Cebu, back to Honkers and through the subways again to SZ airport and off to Wuhan where I met a fellow I met in my students home town who showed me around his college and around Wuhan, flight back to CQ, subway home, dump my bags at 11pm and lay out the next mornings clothes ready and 7am I was in class again teaching the first class of the next semester. a nice trip. I had a good time over there, but the whole experience had a rather sudden and character building end. I was working for the International College within the university rather than the Department of Foreign Languages, the DFL had US Peace Corps volunteers funded by the US state department while the IC paid us teachers themselves, come the time that the end of the contract was looming up and I approached the department to renew for the new year, "Sorry, were won't be renewing your contract" so off to find a new job, ended up living in Shapingba district and working an hours bus ride away in Jiefangbei in the New York Tower a couple hundred meters away from the war memorial cenotaph. Later conversations with my former students I kept up with revealed I and the other two IC TESOL teachers had been replaced with more Peace Corps volunteers. Simple economics, why pay teachers when the US govt will pay teachers...? So I was working for Britain VNII, a private english language school I found was owned by the number 4 ranking cop in CQ, Plenty of pull to direct the PSB immigration and work visa section raids elsewhere so no rush to deal with getting me a working visa for their school, it took nagging and nagging and pointed questions about when I would get a legal visa before they bothered to set things in motion at last. After a holiday period I worked a month, came in to work at the VNII offices the middle of the next month (they paid monthly, tot up what hours you worked the previous month and pay that in the middle of the month) expecting to get paid... padlocks on the door! Bankrupt. The owner had been accepting cash from the parents and pocketing it rather than passing it on to accounts to be used for running the school! so there I was out a month and a halfs work with no money to show for it and a visa suddenly gone worthless, since a bankrupt school equalled a bankrupt visa. To cut a long story short I ended up in Honkers (Hong Kong) missing pay, having spent savings on a holiday, more on the quarters apartment lease, and the air fare. No end-of-contract bonus or airfare, bugger all cash left, just enough for a call home and a few days living in HK. A call to mum didn't get through, after several days of calling and no response I tried a neighbour and no answer either, I posted a grumble on facebook and got a post back from my brothers girlfriend, Try the Fax number, then line is buggered. Got mum the next call and arranged for her to sell my emergency "If the shit hits the fan" fund and buy me a ticket home. So two old cows grazing forgotten out the back of the farm got a quick trip to McDonalds via the ground beef plant and I came home dead broke and skint. Character building... stories to swap over a beer round a BBQ, but hardly conductive to peace and quiet while they were happening :D So I spent a year looking for work back in NZ which was scarce as hens teeth for a deaf guy, Nil receptionist, can't hear the phone, Nil outside work in wet weather, $2500 of sensitive electronics behind my ear which doesn't like getting wet, Nil hazardous machinery jobs, Health & Safety would have a fit at the though of someone who can't hear "Watch Out" over machinery noise, Nil this job, Nil that job. Finally found one after 18 months looking. Paid off mum for the cows, got a bit of cash sorted and my feet under me financially again and can look around for a bit of fun on the side again instead of head down, arse up, nose to the grindstone life. Before I left I looked at China, Motorbike or Flying. Been to China, so that leaves flying and motorbikes. Through a Russian friend is trying to entice me to join her in Siberia teaching in her friends school, I'm not really convinced about living somewhere with -30*C winters however...

Mum can't eat commercial supermarket bread. She has a soy allergy and cheap bread is made with cheap soy flour to bulk out the more expensive wheat flour. She can eat home made bread with no problems, my sister makes it with real wheat flour made from wheat, not soy with just enough wheat to pass truth in advertising laws with the pictures of a head of wheat in the bag.

It's a small world, He's only a coupla hundred miles from where I was at 重庆交通大学

Oh, I Certainly will laugh at your expense when the wallies drop the ball :D for 4 mil you'll have to tell me what the winning lotto numbers are this Saturday, including the powerball, with 20 mil in my pocket I could even put up a few extra hangars and buy the farm at the end of the runway to expand. Back when I was still around Te Kowhai Phillip had zero interest in his dads planes, not every son is eager to follow in his dads footsteps, last I heard Phillip was doing a Bachelors of Sports Science, he always was a good swimmer, through not olympic class, he did have a good shot at qualifying for the commonwealths but I don't think he every made it. I was up to Hamilton in Feb for a day and gather from stopping in the village he's still in Te Kowhai somewhere with kids at the same primary school he and I went to. Kiwi303 is my monicker on a bunch of forums here and there across the web, Kiwi because I AM a Kiwi, .303 from my SMLE. the second forum I ever joined was a gun forum, the first was a hunting forum. Tells you where my other interests lie, what with having a couple of .22s, a neglected 12G (i'm not into molesting birdies, fur rather than feathers is my target), a recently acquired SKS and my trusty old first gun, an Ishapore 1940 SMLE No 1 Mk III* It's easier to remember just one username and a bunch of varying passwords than it is to remember lots of names AND passwords.

Hmm a little about me. 34, Kiwi (Since this is an Aussie forum, expect a bit of ribbing whenever the Wallabies lose a match) Grew up in Te Kowhai in the same primary school class and later the same high school as Max Clear's son with Max's wife as my teacher aide in class at primary school for a few years, so pretty familiar with the B22 Bantam and been up for a few joyrides. I have heard Max died a few years back and Micro Aviation was taken over by some folks down Invercargil way somewhere, RIP, Max was a good old bugger. Roll on 20 years or so and I'm now in the SI working in Rakaia and spending the off season in the Nelson Lakes where I've been up in the Nelson Lakes Gliding Club Grob twin glider a few times. Back in 2010 there was a short period where I was tossing up choices between getting my PPL or Microlight cert, Getting my Class 6 and a motorcycle, or going overseas teaching english somewhere. I spent Nov 2011 to Dec 2012 in Chongqing in China, with trips to Hong Kong and the Philippines. You can guess where the saved cash got spent, lots of flying, but no GA. Back in NZ, found a job, stable enough to have a little petty cash to burn, enough for a few hours a month flying anyway so am again looking at a PPL or MPC. I'm deaf as a post, though using a Hearing Aid means I can pass a Class 2 with a no-radio clause but would never make Class 1 so a commercial career with CPL is out of the possibilities. Currently digging around a bit for what it would cost to get a PPL these days, due down to start the new season in late July so a couple months to get the income flowing again and start classes maybe early Sept with either the Geralding flying club from Rangitata aerodrome or the Canterbury Recreational Aero Club at Rangiora both with microlights for a MPC, or Ashburton Flying Club with C172s for a PPL. Ashburton would be more expensive, but PPl gives more options, including GA aircraft not just Microlights, plus recognised overseas as a ICAO PPL in countries where MPC's aren't recognised. Meanwhile I'm lurking, reading, researching, and generally getting ahead on the theoretical side of things. I already know Lift/Drag etc. Air Law and Nav etc, the more I learn now the less the workload and brain fade in exams later while doing the course of study and tests.