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It should be itemised in the T's & C's of the training agreement. As the trainee is renting the aircraft, I would expect the same rules apply as hiring a car or truck.

Nah, keep posting, don't get upset, I was just having a shot at you. I like the vintage films, too - it's amazing to see the conditions on the Clipper, as compared to todays sardine cans.

Fancying a trip to Honolulu to meet some Wahines, Brendan? Just remember, a ticket on a cross-world jaunt on a Clipper, cost the equivalent of $35,000!

The Pan Am facilities such as the Hotels on Midway and Wake didn't fare too well, thanks to the Japanese invasion. Neither did the people Pan Am left behind.  😞

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/pan-american-airways-on-the-wwii-home-front-in-the-pacific.htm

Back to school for you, Spacey, you must have failed arithmetic! 100mph is 161kmh.

.......smeared from the shoulder to the end of the sleeve, so does that mean you've gained a "stripe"? E P looked in horror at the huge streak from shoulder to the end of his sleeve, it was obvious the sleeve had draped itself into the pan when he was unloading the "goods", and he hadn't noticed - so that explained the smell that seemed to be following him.

"Well", said the bloke behind E P, "I've heard of Chocolate Bombs on Masterchef, but this takes it to a whole new level, and..............

Hmmmm........

QUOTE: "First, the water ski maneuver itself requires no real talent.".......

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2022/june/pilot/dogfight-airplane-water-skiing

.....of stolen coins from parking meters - mostly 10c and 20c coins. Pae Mee Nao made a rush for the spilt coins, just as.......

....eyes - and those eyes were getting slittier by the moment, as the dreadful urgency of the moment started to become an unsustainable pressure, which was.......

You'd only need a floating piece of driftwood and the story and video would be a whole lot different scenario. Ask any barefoot skier about the deadly danger of floating, almost-submerged objects in the water.

And a chilly trip, too! For $350,000, I'd at least want an enclosed cabin! I suppose he does have the comfort of engine redundancy!  

https://isurplus.com.au/product/lockwood-aircam/?srsltid=AfmBOoqXTP-AQnqQ0HyfUNltdr18AamzK4_2cPDJdRDWx_fLiPTGjoOb

......commotion as the Delegate yelled out, "Those photos are FAKE!!!" - resulting in an uproar as everyone jumped to their feet, with some protesting they were genuine, and others protesting they were AI-generated.

But the transformation of the Delegate went almost unnoticed during the uproar and commotion. But the signs were all there - the sudden appearance of epaulettes, where there were none formerly - the shirt turning from checked flannelette to crisp white cotton, and............ 

The saga of this crash continues, and the pilot still lives in a fantasy world, where you obey no laws and are answerable to no-one. But he's found out, that isn't quite the case.

He fronted court today (Tuesday 27/05/2025) to face a committal hearing regarding 17 aviation charges against him, including operating and maintaining unregistered aircraft dating back to 2011, and failing to surrender his pilot's licence.

But he continually interrupted the magistrate and the court proceedings, claiming that he had no charges to answer, as the aviation laws only applied to commercial pilots and aircraft, and not to him or experimental aircraft.

When his arguments failed to convince the magistrate (and the fool was unrepresented in court), he walked out of the court, having failed to request extension of his bail.

He was immediately re-arrested on the footpath out front of the court and returned to court, where his bail was was extended - and he was committed to stand trial on the 17 charges laid.

He claims the Civil Aviation Act 1988 is unlawful, and the courts have no power over him, as he's a "sovereign citizen". I think he's going to find out that none of his arguments hold any water, and I think we can look to see him facing some serious penalties, maybe even some jail time.

Not a single one of these so-called "sovereign citizens" has ever successfully argued their cases in any Australian court, that Australian laws don't apply to them. 

I'm surprised the relatives of the gent killed haven't sued him for his death, as it appears a pretty clear-cut case to me.  And I'm surprised that the Police have failed to pursue this pilot for manslaughter.

The simple fact that he failed to replace faulty seat belts and the passengers belt snapped in the crash, seems like a straightforward case of negligence, or failing to take due care, to me.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-27/ball-bay-crash-pilot-arrested-after-walking-out-of-court/105344884

No, I don't dislike them, that's just your opinion you've formed. I simply said the new Kawasaki engines are high-revving screamers, so they'll have a high-pitch noise problem. Kawasaki engines didn't win the War for the Japanese - it was P&W, Merlin, Allison, and Wright that won the War for the Allies.

Kawasaki reformed after the War when they weren't allowed to build anything aviation-related, and one of the companies to come out of the reformation (amongst others) was Fuji Heavy Industries, maker of Subarus. But the Subaru engines have their problems, too.

  On 27/05/2025 at 5:11 AM, pmccarthy said:

Ki61 - that'll do.

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Ahh, yes - powered by the "notoriously unreliable" Ha-40 inverted V12 engine - a licence-built version of the DB-601A. The Japanese tried to improve it, but even then it was a POS. Let's hope they do better, second time around.  😄 

http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/H/a/Ha-40_aircraft_engine.htm

I'm pretty familiar with big Jap motorbikes and I know 8,500RPM isn't high-revving for them. I also have my ears assailed daily by Jap motorbike riders wrapping on the throttle. I can well imagine the outrage of the non-flying set when they hear aircraft with Kawasakis doing 8,500RPM at WOT on takeoff and climb. There's enough complaints now with the current providers of engines.

I have yet to see an exhaust system that can keep a high-revving Jap motorbike engine quiet. BRAAP motorbikes didn't develop their brand name just on wordplay.

High quality or not, an engine in an aircraft, doing 8,500RPM at full throttle is going to annoy a lot of people.

8,500RPM!! Wow, what a bunch of screamers! I trust they also develop good sound-proofing and engine noise reduction!

Spacey can remember when he was paid in groats.  😄

....they're wearing a facial sheep balls accoutrement, and having trouble trying to see the piano keys. Naturally, the phone is always lost during the collision, leading to some amazing video footage when it's finally found, with shots of...........

......the important part, of course, is the selection of the correct windscreen washer additive. This additive, known as "Bloodgone" is a secret formula produced in W.A. by OT's company, "Trauma Cleanups Pty Ltd.", a company which specialises in cleaning up sites where blood has been spilt, and splattered body parts abound.

OT gained insight into the need for this business after seeing the amount of work available for this line of work after multiple crime gang shootups, especially in Sydney and Melbourne. OT's TCPL also gets rid of the burnt cars after they've been torched by gang killers.

OT spent some considerable time working with a renowned industrial chemist, and together they came up with their prize-winning formula. So much so, that gang killers have sent through large orders for the cleaner, to ensure clean crime scenes before the TRG arrive.

However, all this is getting away from bulls exploits in chasing lurve in Taswegia - although one has to cheerfully admit, bull's travel plans would've been drastically shortened, if he hadn't had the foresight to fill the 6 plastic milk bottles with OT's magic windscreen cleaner.

Accordingly, with a clean windscreen and high hopes, bull sighted the delightful shape of the Tasmanian land mass appearing, and this aroused him even further, dreaming of sighting the real thing on Chastity, which brought him to............

....choosers, and bull knew he wasn't a millionaire - just yet. But those purple robes held the best chance of bull becoming a millionaire, or even a billionaire. Besides, he was starting to like the idea of wearing purple robes and going around touching people (he already did that a lot back home, anyway - like, "can I touch you up for $50?, I'll pay it back next payday"... but now he could do it globally).

Before long bull had a statue of the Virgin Mary that he carried around with him, and anyone he touched could pin $50 to it for a bull dispensation, that he promised, gave them the ability to.........

The beauty of finding nice gold nuggets is that the Perth Mint will pay a premium over the regular gold price for some of them, as there's a major demand for them for jewellery, and a recent decline in the number of nuggets suitable for jewellery use.

.....write his own language, which was based on his Queensland and Tasmanian living and educational experiences. There's reportedly an Australian language called Strine, bull decided to name his new language, Strayn - because it was regularly a strain trying to figure out what a Strayne speaker was actually saying. This led to a serious diplomatic bungle, when bull, upon his visit to the Pope, said.........

I'd walk before I rode with JS again. Cramped seats, tired aircraft, full of drunken and abusive bogans, and you get absolutely NOTHING, you have to BUY anything you want.

Every single person I've spoken to in recent times, who took a JS trip, says they won't fly with them again. I think it's been about 6 years since I took a JS flight.

On one trip to Bali we were delayed 5 hours, because a part needed had to be flown in from the East. We got a $10 lunch voucher from them - and have you ever tried to buy anything to eat, for $10, in an airport? You certainly don't get lunch, that's for sure. Then they boarded us, and we had to wait another 1-1/4 hrs until they found a LAME to sign off on the part replacement. 

Instead of arriving in Bali by mid-morning, we arrived in the late afternoon, so we effectively lost out the best part of a day of our holiday.

At $170 a gram, that's quite a nice haul. I wouldn't mind finding that in three and half weeks.