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.....such an embellisher of the truth, it was impossible to take anything he said - or wrote - with any type of reliability. "He was that bad in school", said Alot, "that we had a Monday morning story-telling ritual, which was formerly called the "Morning News", and we had to rename it, "Tall Stories" - because Cappy never ceased to produce Monday morning tales that would make Bill Wannan look like Amateur Hour!" "In fact, he turned up one Monday morning and told us this outright fantasy tale, how he'd taken on.........

No peeing mishap story, but a poo mishap story from a mate in California that is hilarious.

.....mouth - and the taste of Cappy's manky finger so shocked and repelled the Tiger, he spat Turbo out, and ran away. Of course, Cappy took all the glory of saving Turbo from the Tiger, but under his breath, during the Press hubbub, Cappy was heard to mutter, "I'd like to know who that bastard was that shoved me towards the Tiger! - because when I put my hand out to save myself from sprawling on the ground, my hand accidentally went straight into that Tigers mouth!!" However, no-one heard Cappy muttering amongst the Press noise, and the hundred rapid-fire TV journalist questions. "Sahib! Did you feel real fear, when you got so close to.........

.....first year, when every box they sold was marked "cargo" - but after the first year, and after 15 million boxes marked "cargo" were found to contain lots of empty space (like most Amazon boxes), the punters lost interest, and decided that aircraft and airports (long overdue avref) were the next area where it was more likely that..........

....movement styles of the cargo cult known as John Frum. As everyone with even a small smattering of WW2 history knows, John Frum originated from the cargo planes (avref) that regularly brought massive amounts of troop support supplies to the Islands of our North. Of course, the cargo cults were operated by the "big men" of the tribes, and Cecil was one of the few who had been declared one of the tribes "big men" - and the "big men were afforded adulation, and followed with amazing loyalty - provided the "cargoes" arrived on time, of course. It was only after one long night of worship and entreaties to John Frum, led by Cecil, that he devised the dance known as the "cargo dance". This dance was based on what the natives saw happen as cargoes fell from the sky - the white foreign soldiers dancing with joy, as they gathered around the precious cargo. Cecil knew that if he initiated this dance, the natives would..........

That's a pretty good policy and a good company to cover you for anything - most insurance companies don't want to cover you for anything even remotely dangerous. I bet the premiums are pretty substantial, though.

.....had had a hand in the start of construction of the BoB. However, typically, Cappy was nowhere to be seen, when the next stage of construction was ready to be commenced, because Cappy had found out that there was work........

......the headlines in the Gumly Herald, Chronicle & Advocate Times. The Ladies of the Gumly CWA were horrified that such deviant photos would be splashed across the pages of their little town newspaper - which had always been known as a pillar of conservative values and opinions - unlike some of the lower-class, attention-seeking newspapers of the suburbs of Melbourne. The Ladies hurriedly put together a Letter to the Editor of the GHC&AT, protesting about the slipping morality of the Newspaper, and demanding that the owner of the photos be identified - and punished - and that the Editor offer up a formal apology for offending the more sensitive readers - especially the Ladies of the region. The Editor received the Letter and pored over its contents with increasing concern. There were major issues to be dealt with now, and he had to move fast. He called up.........

....cars and French aircraft (avref). However, it was the mention of his love of French cars and French aircraft that brought odium upon Cappy from the rest of the crowd that weren't French. "Is this bloke for real?" cried one horrified Aussie in the crowd. "He actually LIKES and prefers French cars and French aircraft?? I mean to say, we can live with his love for French pastries and French perfumes - but when he mentions he loves dreadful French cars, and dreadful French aircraft, that's it! - he's no better than............

......make the rats even better at hiding, than they already are - thus leading to invisible Turbine Inc., Rat Farms. The problem then developed into one of trying to find the rats, when they were ready for slaughter. This led to even more exotic developments at Turbine Industries, when Turbo requested that rat sniffers be developed, to find rats in hiding. The rats countered with...........

OT believes the note cannot possibly be from bull, as it contains quotation marks. It is obviously a fake message, as bulls computer keyboard has no punctuation keys and no Shift key. Meantimes, while Turbo is desperately seeking to avoid assassination from an unknown but obviously frightening source, Turbine Industry designers have been working on a new aircraft design, which is going to bring "stealth" aircraft to a whole new level. TI designers realised the market for this type of aircraft is going to explode (no pun intended) after a certain warlord was assassinated in a dreadful manner whilst flying in an aircraft. Turbo and his team of designers realised if no-one could see an aircraft, warlords, nasty dictators, and other nefarious types, would be rushing to order this type of aircraft, as it would enable them to travel by air without feeling exceptionally nervous about assassination - Turbo included. To that end, the designers on the payroll of TI Aircraft Design Division sought out the highest technical levels of research on materials invisibility. They discovered an unnamed scientist who had devised a material that unfortunately disappeared as soon as it was made. This material was ideal, the only problem being of course, that no-one could find the material after it was produced, so they could built an airframe from it. Turbo (using a Zoom conference from a remote and unknown location, naturally) offered a solution. "Why don't we .........

There's an FAA AD - AD 95-12-01 - that relates to increased inspection levels of wing forward spar fuselage attachment assembly on the Pawnee - especially when the Pawnee has been used in some types of ag work. Some of the commentors indicate the mandated FAA PA-25 inspection is not strict enough. https://resources.univair.com/docs/ad-95-12-01-forward-wing-spars

What kind of pilot overstresses an airframe with a pull up like that? I'd have to say the same kind of pilot who neglects adequate takeoff checklists, and who skips over airframe maintenance.

More than likely manufactured by Sogefi. Sogefi's own filter brands are FRAM, Coopers/FIAMM, Purflux, SogefiPro and Tecnocar. And of course, they would manufacture filters for a large number of European automotive and engine manufacturers. https://www.sogefigroup.com/en/brands/brands.html They sell filters in 18 countries and have 37 manufacturing facilities globally - including China, of course. https://www.sogefigroup.com/en/sogefi-group/worldwide-presence.html

Michael West has an excellent detailed article on how he believes Alan Joyce is guilty of insider trading - offloading his Q shares, while the public and other shareholders were in the dark about the ACCC investigation into Q over the "phantom flight ticket sales" rort. Joyce will be long gone, before the ACCC more than likely finds Q guilty as charged, and hit with a massive fine. https://michaelwest.com.au/did-alan-joyce-know-is-this-qantas-insider-trading/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-09-06&utm_campaign=Michael+West+Media+Weekly+Update

WW2 was fought and won largely with taildraggers! Of course, there were a few exceptions. Huge props on performance aircraft dictated the preference for tail-wheel design.

All filter manufacturing is nearly always done by independent filter manufacturers. Very few OEM companies manufacture their own filters. Cummins is one of the few, they own Fleetguard, which is a leading global filter manufacturer. To set up a filter manufacturing facility is a sizeable expense that OEM's will not normally involve themselves in, it's easier and simpler for them to seek out a major filter manufacturer, and get their filters made by that filter producer. The OEM's merely submit the specifications to the filter manufacturer, and the filter manufacturer simply produces a filter to meet those specs - and brands it accordingly. If the OEM is good, they keep a careful check on the filter quality being supplied, as well as relying on the filter manufacturers QC's. The OEM's might do random checks of quality, or they may have their own testing facilities. Ryco no longer manufacture filters in Australia, they've had all their filters made in China since 2005. Ryco spent $3M here in 2013 on "filter supply facilities" - but that only involved setting up a big office, a lab, and filter testing facilities. There are major filter manufacturers in all the more populous countries - China, Europe, the U.S., Thailand, Sth Korea, and Indonesia - and still the odd one left in Japan. Mann & Hummel are the biggest filter manufacturer in Europe. Sakura, originally Japanese, moved to Indonesia and went into JV with the Indonesians. Donaldson are the third biggest filter manufacturer. Sofegi, an Italian company, is the worlds 4th biggest filter manufacturer. Sakura Indonesia produce 8,000,000 filters a MONTH, so you can get an idea of the size of the filter market, from that level of production just from one manufacturer. Global operators such as Denso, Donaldson, Bosch, Wix, Toyota, etc., get their filters made anywhere - as with nearly all their products. The amount of Bosch stuff made in China now is incredible. There are probably only about 20 main (well-known) filter manufacturing companies - but there are probably 200 filter brands. The 20 main manufacturers manufacture those other 180 brands. There's probably 20 or 30 major filter manufacturing facilities in China, but only a few of them set up by global operators - and most of these global brand name factories are Joint Ventures with Chinese companies, anyway. There are quite a number of filter examination videos on YooToob - but I've yet to come across one that does a very refined comparison. Most of the people doing these videos simply do a visual examination of the cut-open filter. A few do "comparison" filter examinations, and they still don't prove much. One of the interesting points to come out of one of these videos was the Cooper-Wesfil filter out of China, that is utilising a standard-size filter canister, across multiple filters. Any difference in length between canister and housing was made up with a thicker anti-drainback valve - which is usually just a big silicon rubber washer. Few of these videos examined in technical detail, the strength of the filter medium (against collapse when loaded up with contaminants), the quality and quantity of the glue holding the filter medium, and the thickness of the metals. Then there's the spring strength measurements needed, to determine at what pressure a bypass valve releases. I saw no-one doing this. The bloke doing the Cooper-Wesfil filter examination did examine the filter media through a microscope, and this showed up holes in the filter media - thus making any claimed micron-level of filtering, a pretty pointless exercise. The Cooper-Wesfil filter obviously has poor filtering ability. The basic design of all filters is pretty much the same, it's the subtle features of the internals that start to make the difference between a good filter and less-than-satisfactory filter, and some of these differences only show up after the filter has been in use for some time. Collapsed filters (internally) due to inadequate filter media strength seems to feature large in many complaints - and an internally collapsed filter can starve engine components of adequate oil supply.

The "I" in the registration letters is photoshopped. There is no "I" used in French aircraft registration letters. The French use only F-GAAA to F-HZZZ and F-JAAA to F-JZZZ, there is no F-IAAA to F-IZZZ.

.....dreamt that he was lying on a Bengal Tiger skin rug that he'd collected as a trophy during his military career time in Northern India, keeping the Hindus and Punjabi's apart. However, his dreaming came to an abrupt end, as the engine seemed to choke up. It almost sounded like it was ingesting Cat fur. As Cappy raised himself from his dreaming, he was horrified to see large areas of Cat fur missing from the wings. What was worse, the engine was now.........

Danny has brought up a good point about the number of businesses that I also find, that seem to regard the products they sell as some kind of State Secret, and you have to contact them with all your details, just to find out pricing and a full description of the item you're interested in. This is a 19th Century business style, and the first thing I think of when I come across this attitude, is that the company cares little about the products it is selling, and cares even less about competitive pricing. I've even gone to the trouble of going through this "contact process" to inquire about an item - whereby a week later, I got a reply saying, "Yes, this item is available, the price is $X (about double any other sellers price), and I can lodge my order by calling them" - as if they are selling limited-run Mint editions of the product! I often feel like emailing these business dinosaurs and telling them I can't be bothered playing their games, I want the full details and description and pricing of the product on display, on a user-friendly website - and I want prompt replies to parts queries and orders. Some businesses get the idea, a lot don't.

Tempest produce an "aviation" oil filter to fit the Rotax, and it's being sold by numerous aircraft parts suppliers. It doesn't appear to be any cheaper than the genuine OEM, from what I can find. More importantly, Rotax do not approve the fitment of the Tempest oil filter - nor any other aftermarket filter. The link to the Rotax Service Letter is at the bottom, and Page 7 covers the reasons why non-genuine filters don't meet with Rotax approval. The only way you can compare oil filters is by cutting them in half, longitudinally. https://www.rotax-owner.com/en/912-914-technical-questions/9725-tempest-oil-filter_1 https://legacy.rotaxowner.com/si_tb_info/serviceletter/sl-912-014-r6.pdf

......was a bit smarter than that, and wasn't going to be the swim test dummy for any fly-in-by-night Chinese operation. "I tell you what", said Cappy thoughtfully. "You go in for swim first, and when you come back with.......

I would be very surprised to find that the genuine Rotax 912 oil filter was identical to any other automotive filter. This is aircraft engines we're talking about, and many Rotax engines fly in certified aircraft. If the genuine Rotax 912 oil filter didn't have extra QC checks and heavier metal in the main housing, I would be very surprised indeed. A screw-on oil filter that split the housing would ruin your whole day, and perhaps your engine and your aircraft if it blew apart, at even modest altitude. So, if I owned a Rotax 912, there's no way I'd be using a standard screw-on automotive oil filter on it. Even if a genuine Rotax filter split, you'd at least get a chance of a warranty claim - I wouldn't like to see your chances of claiming for a new Rotax engine if your el-cheapo automotive filter split open, they'd promptly claim it was never designed for aircraft engine use.

Filter paper degrades over a period of time, just the same as anything made from paper. They have to set a reasonable time period for warranty, based on envisaged worst storage conditions. https://www.gopurepower.com/blog/do-oil-filters-expire/#:~:text=To Be Safe%2C Throw Away Your Old Oil Filter&text=The paper filter media inside,porous to filter the oil.

.....the additional necessary lung transplants. Of course, I got that info off the JH site, where they also state all the side-benefits of asbestos ingestion." Cappy only found out about the asbestos in his lagoon, after he had the fish from it tested for mercury. Not only were the mercury levels off the scale, the chemists also found high levels of arsenic, cadmium, and various other toxic compounds including PCB. When questioned over the results, Cappy replied, "Well, I did give approval to the local 'Ndrangheta bosses to dump some surplus fill on the edge of the lagoon. How was I to know it was untreatable toxic waste, that was supposed to be.........?