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....calling them forlatters. Not many people know that the forlatters are an offshoot of the bull tribal group, thus the use of lower case for their group name. Just like bull, they also come from a long-established fishing background - mostly fishing for suckers to rip off mercilessly. To this end, the forlatters had spent lengthy periods studying the Turbine Media Inc publications, many of which had curious titles, such as "How To Get Rich Quick and Not Get Caught". The forlatters very quickly saw the benefits of studying these books, so it wasn't long before.....

The early M20's up to 1965 had manually retractable undercarriage with a big "Johnson bar" lever. "Johnson bar" comes from locomotive terminology, and is a term used on a wide range of equipment, where you need to pull a big lever. From 1965, Mooney offered electrically activated undercarriage retraction on the M20 as an option. In 1969, the manual retraction system was dropped completely and only electric retraction was offered from then on. VH-TWV was built in 1985 according to the rego details, so it will have electrically-operated undercarriage. If the undercarriage was retracted while taxying, then that's an aircraft fault, because the M20 with electric retraction has an airspeed lockout to prevent retraction on the ground.

Well, I know that PayPal charge a flat 2.5% for most transactions, and if the transaction is into a different currency, they give you a crappy exchange rate, which means they fill their pockets again.

The Applepay surcharge? This is what AI tells me..... QUOTE: "While Apple Pay itself doesn't charge users a fee for using the service, some businesses might apply a surcharge to transactions made with any card payment method, including Apple Pay, according to Credit Union SA. These surcharges are usually a percentage of the purchase price and are intended to cover the costs associated with processing card payments. The surcharge is not specific to Apple Pay; it applies to any transaction where a card is used, whether it's through a physical card or a digital wallet like Apple Pay."

This was his first effort, May 14th, 2023. Seems like he might be a bit of a slow learner, I thought doing it once would be enough of a wake-up call. Perhaps he needs a better wife - one who reminds him when he's going to do something wrong. 😄 Qld MP Robbie Katter 'embarrassed' but unhurt in landing gear mishap at Mount Isa Airport - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU The North Queensland MP says "it's just the ego that hurts" after he forgot to put down the landing gear before hitting the runway on Sunday.

Methusala, it wouldn't be the first time an outnumbered country invaded by a larger and heavier-armed country, won their war, because of faulty strategies on the part of the invader. I've been a front-line participant in one of those wars, where a guerrilla army with limited resources, but possessing rat-cunning resourcefulness, backed by a near-fanatical drive to rid their country of the worlds best-armed aggressive invader, actually won in the end - simply because the invader did not possess adequate fighting morale, and didn't have the full backing of their population. There's a lesson there for one Russian dictator, who also lacks a military force with adequate fighting morale, a military that lacks capable leadership, and a population that doesn't exactly wholeheartedly support the dictator. This current major East European conflict will continue as a war of attrition - and Russia is up against a spirited and dedicated population, who are also innovative and resourceful - and when the Russian losses reach a critical level (or the dictator dies, or is assassinated), then I would wager there will be a major crisis within Russia, as to whether it's worth them continuing an endless war, with minimal gains, that could last 15 years or more. This was America's conundrum, and they took the decision to go home and cut their monstrous losses - which losses kept the country poor for more than a decade - and the full cost of that futile war is still felt today in the U.S. Russia has yet to face up to the full cost of their poorly-run current war.

....his rugged appearance, his way with the ladies, his superb fishing skills (he wasn't called the Prawn Terroriser for nothing), his boat handling skills, and last but not least, his superior aviation skills, which placed him front and centre, for doing all his own fabulous aerial stunts in the movie. To that end, bull set about further honing his aerobatic skills by...........

Well, I was under the impression you were trying to make out the Chinese technological developments are the result of their innate skills. The bottom line is, they indulge in theft of Western technology wholesale (including massive levels of industrial espionage), to ensure they can gain technologically. Add in their long-term effort aimed at gaining total or majority control of critical minerals (rare earths and zinc come to mind, straight up), and it becomes obvious that the long term game of the Chinese is world domination of minerals, technology and manufacturing, by any and every method available. Just a moment... WWW.CIPHERNEWS.COM

.........copy artist, even to the point of donning a Captains hat, and starting to relate stories of frightening sailing and prawning tales, which led all those in the vicinity to cease their conversations and........

The bottom line is, no matter how much anyone claims the Bristell is a perfect machine with zero faults, its safety record shows otherwise. And at this point, we have another crashed Bristell, to add to the list of crashed Bristells here - and we have no knowledge of what happened, and are not likely to find out. But the bottom line is, a virtually new factory-built aircraft, piloted by a gentleman with excellent piloting skills, left an airstrip with zero communication of any kind (in itself, utterly baffling) and totally disappeared without a trace. And no-one has discovered what happened with the Bristell that crashed and burnt right out at Redesdale in Victoria. Finally, we are only currently talking about Bristell crashes in Australia, there have been a serious number of Bristell crashes in other countries.

Well, it's highly likely now, with moves such as the one below, that we're going to see a lot more Western technological design appear in Chinese high-tech equipment. But nothing is really changing, this is how China gets its technological ideas. I saw an article several years ago where the writer stated that there's just 200,000 Western-educated and Western-trained China-born technological experts, who are behind all of China's technological and manufacturing gains. They are Chinese-born, they go to the West to acquire their high-tech skills, then return to China to advance the country technologically, because they're loyal to the country. Zhou Ming, top engineer involved in Boeing 787 and A380 design, leaves US for China | South China Morning Post WWW.SCMP.COM The industrial software specialist is joining the newly established Eastern Institute of Technology as dean of its engineering college.

I bet that's one border collie that will never be persuaded to get into an aeroplane, ever again!! That pilot is lucky to get out with just a knee fracture, that aircraft is a mess.

Nev, they use powdered titanium, and it's melted with a laser as it's laid on the preceding layer of material. There's nothing surer than the fact that 3D printing techniques are developing at great speed. However, for aviation use, consistency of product, so that it can meet certification is going to be the major hurdle to overcome. Applications of 3D Printing in Modern Military Operations BIGREP.COM Explore military applications of 3D printing, from field repairs to custom gear, that are boosting readiness, speed, and operational agility.

There's only one thing with all the latest Chinese whizz-ban weaponry and aircraft - and that is, that none of it has actually been war-zone tested - as against virtually all the U.S. weaponry and aircraft, that have. I would like to see how 3D-printed titanium stands up to the rigours of actual combat.

Yes, the durability of the ETFE pillows under a major hail attack has been tested, and found wanting. The Zurich Zoo has a large structure called the Masoala Rainforest building, which was built in 2002 with an ETFE pillow roof. Within a week of being completed, the MR building was hit with a massive hailstorm, comprising odd knobby hailstones up to 70mm in diameter! The roof was destroyed, and had to be replaced. When it was replaced, a redesign was introduced, with another separate ETFE membrane (also inflated) positioned above the main roof. A second major hailstorm hit the MR building again in 2004, and the protection membrane worked, and no damage was done to the main roof pillows - although the protective membrane was perforated in some places. It was not replaced, so I guess it was simply patched (they use adhesive tape to seal holes). It appears both the original roof, and the protective membrane of the MR building, are still in place. https://iibec.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2007-Flueler.pdf

And once you get to Kimba, you'll know you're exactly halfway across Australia! - and then all you have to do, is watch out for galahs! 😄

This is an interesting exercise by Air NZ, they've built the Southern Hemisphere's biggest hangar, 98 metres wide - capable of taking a B777, a B787, or two A320/321's, side by side - and it's almost entirely made of timber. The hangar frame is constructed from Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) and Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) with minimal amounts of steel (just steel baseplates, and a steel frame to support the massive wooden door), and the roof is clad with ETFE (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene) cushions (or pillows) that are inflated at a low pressure. This unique structure has the major advantage of being able to flex up to 300mm so it can cope with seismic events (and high wind forces, too, I guess). I'm guessing termites pose no problem in NZ! I find it interesting that no construction cost has been mentioned in the article, and especially no comparison to the cost of a steel-frame and steel-clad structure. I would imagine that a lower cost differential for the wooden frame - if any - would come back to the fact that NZ has enormous supplies of timber, which would quite likely be much lower cost than imported steel. However, I did note that the CLT came from Australia! I find that a bit surprising, but it may be, that NZ doesn't have the necessary manufacturing facilities for CLT yet. The interest part about CLT and LVL is that they're both a lot more fire resistant than regular timber. The glues used in them don't support combustion, and the two products resist fire taking hold because of their design, and they only char on the outside, when set on fire. Air NZ's Record-Breaking Timber Hangar is Ready to Take Full Flight WOODCENTRAL.COM.AU Air New Zealand's Hangar 4 has reached a major milestone following the installation of its 27-metre-high and 80-metre-wide hangar door. Engineered by Finnish ma ETFE Material Guide | Building Materials for Modern Design FABRITECTURE.COM Learn about ETFE material, its uses, benefits, and applications in modern building design. Discover why ETFE is a top choice for sustainable architecture projects.

How do you plan to attack Spencer Gulf? Fly over its middle reaches or deviate around it, and avoid flying over it completely? 🧩

.....pineapples. Not too many people know that Cappy Cook VIII was the driving force and majority landowner behind the Tahitian pineapple plantations. Just as the Mafia in Sicily control the Italian tomato trade, so does Cappy Cook VIII get a sizeable kickback on every Tahitian pineapple produced, eaten or juiced. In fact, so invasive is Cappy Cook VIII's control of the pineapple industry in the country, that Tahitian slang today is, "Do you want a Cappy?", whenever someone asks if they want a pineapple, or even a pineapple juice. The Tahitian slang has even extended to, "get the rough end of a Cappy", for description of the poor treatment of someone, such as the way the Tahitian equivalent of CASA, the DACPF, treats Tahitian aircraft owners. However, when the DACPF approaches Cappy about some aviation transgression he's committed (and believe me, he's committed plenty of transgressions, and not just aviation transgressions, either), then they slip on the kid gloves, and approach him with extreme care, such is his fearful reputation - so much so, that........

He's not exactly an RA-Aus candidate though, is he? - with an IFR DA40NG? Kind of like saying you're going on an economy-style drive in the latest Bentley.

.....NES contributors, who are unaware of bulls makeup, and accordingly, are all too likely to tread carelessly on him, thus creating........ (OT is in awe of bulls last posting, where he ensures NES contributors are made aware of the difference between Bull the Man, and bull the Legend. bull's legacy is one that few men can copy - terroriser of prawns, terroriser of boat crew, and terroriser of anyone who steps on him. There will shortly be a lucrative offer from Hollywood moguls, all fighting for the right to make the blockbuster film of bulls life, which will make Indiana Jones look like a small grey accountant).

"White collar crime" in its various forms (abusive and destructive corporate behaviour, right through to outright fraud), is rarely viewed as truly criminal behaviour, but just "corporate shenanigans", all done in the name of "robust business activities". If you really want to see untouchable criminals, take a look at banking and financial institution criminality, which regularly involves abuse of power, straight-out fraud, and destruction of bank customers wealth and assets, all done to protect and enhance their own privileged positions. And not one major managerial figure in one of the above mentioned, has ever been charged with any crime, or done time in jail, even though Royal Commissions have uncovered a litany of illegal behaviour.

I reckon the bloke who fell down the embankment whilst running to help, might have done more damage to himself, than the blokes in the Cherokee!

You can fix Google Maps by right clicking on a road and select "report a data problem". You then get a number of choices set by Google to alter the map information. You can advise them a section of road is closed.

The topic is already listed in this forum, Red. https://www.recreationalflying.com/forums/topic/40857-engine-failure-over-mona-vale-golf-course-170825/#comment-584628