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It's extremely fortunate he didn't start a fire in that long dry grass! He even managed to miss all the powerlines! Great work!

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The military value is pretty limited when you've got no armaments - but the baddies have missiles, rockets, heavy machine guns, RPG's, and big guns galore!

I'll only take one when they have the Mark VII version, with the death ray laser gun!

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Semantics of wether it is a solenoid or a relay is nit picking words...we all know what it is and what it does

Sorry, I have to disagree with this opinion. Technology is all about using correct, accurate technical descriptions for devices (or parts and components) to eliminate errors and confusion.

A solenoid converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, converting electrical power into linear motion.

A relay transfers current by allowing a low current circuit to control one or more higher current circuits.

There is a major difference between the two devices, and it's not "nit-picking words".

Many devices gain "common names" which are not correct technical names, and it may be O.K. to use these in casual face-to-face discussions where "local terminology" is understood - but correct technical naming must always be used in manufacturer references, written instructions and technical papers.

Every manufacturer with a professional approach insists on this, and I have sighted and read numerous publications from companies that identify devices and parts by their correct names, and those publications insist that everyone use those correct names.

At least it wasn't identified as a Cessna!

.....6:30PM, commencing with Whitebait fritters for entrees". Bull made sure the brochures were sprinkled with words such as "choice, eh?", "cuzzy bro", "chur", "chocka", "munted" and "chully bin", just to make sure the Kiwis didn't feel left out of the deals.

With days, thousands of bookings from Kiwiland flooded in, as Kiwis sought to escape their boring mundane lives, that largely featured crap weather, freezing cold, constant earthquakes, and regular bad news of more criminal Kiwis being deported from Australia.

North Queensland never looked so good to them - and as his bank account filled up, Bulls grin got even wider than the grin he got, when he caught the biggest.........

.....barnstorming in a turbocharged Drifter (long overdue avref, thanks to Bull re-routing the NES to nautical tales), if he wanted to become a fully qualified baitlayer.

So, Cappy set off on a search for.........

This reminds me of November 1942, when 17 new Kittyhawks arrived at Brisbane, and were then assembled and flown to Darwin with apparently inadequate checks for assembly faults. 

Upon arrival at Cloncurry for refuelling, one pilot was quizzed by the refuelling corporal, as to his destination. "Darwin" was the pilots reply.

"You won't have any trouble finding your way to Darwin. Just follow the trail of crashed Kittyhawks, you can't go wrong", was the famous answer from the corporal.

Nowadays, all we have to do, is follow the trail of crashed Boeings .....

.......and they had to find their way back to spiritual cleanliness again. Ahmed, who was the mosque Muezzin, decided he'd install signs telling people to wash their hands more often.

He wangled a great deal in surplus COVID-19 signage, but the problem was, there weren't enough of the signs in multiple languages.

As result, he called on Turbo to request his help, as he knew there was a Turbine Languages division, within the Turbine Conglomerate of global operations.

Turbo said, "Ahmed, I can do a great deal for you. It involves a little bit of running through Gaza tunnels, but I'm sure you'll be up to it! All you have to do is.........

The oil specifications in Reynards list is a basic ASTM oil specification list. It does not list specialist additives, which can vary from oil manufacturer to oil manufacturer.

Lube oils are produced to basic ASTM specifications by the few oil refineries owned by the big oil companies, and then specialised additive packages are added by companies who engage in oil retailing.

I used Golden Fleece oil in my fleet of earthmovers, construction equipment, trucks, road vehicles and plant items for over 20 years.

GF produced very good quality oil - but it was made for GF by Caltex, because Golden Fleece never owned a refinery! But GF obviously selected the additive package, and I proved the superior performance of GF oils time and time again, after viewing and inspecting engines during strip downs.

In the "old days", oils varied substantially because the oil companies sourced crude from their selected source, or sources, and that crude came with a huge variety of undesirable ingredients.

Not a lot of people know that a percentage of sand is included in most crude! The refinery does its best to refine the crude to meet specifications, but often there are still a few undesirable chemicals in the final product. So the oil companies blend crudes from various sources, to reduce the impact of the undesirable residual chemicals.

Then came catalytic cracking, a big improvement over thermal cracking. New refineries could produce pure base oils from lower grades of crude oil, free of chemical impurities.

This is where the "synthetic" oils come from - the base oil from catalytic cracking is purer, more stable, less inclined to break down under heat and load, and less likely to acidify and oxidise.

The additive packages are trade secrets, and you'll struggle to find out anything about what the oil lab chemists are actually putting in the oil by way of additives. 

And the companies constantly find new additives, with vastly improved properties over older additives - so they can change from year to year.

If an engine manufacturing company advise you their branded oil is designed for their engine/s, you may pay a little more for it, but it removes any argument from engine failure claims, if you do use it.

Sorry, I only just realised I put "difference", when it should've been "distance". The time for editing elapsed before I picked it up.

.......go back to the Mosque with a 44 of 5 day old prawns and dump them on the steps, and tell the worshippers that Allah had now deemed the Mosque unclean, and they now had to...........

Any decent car hire operator will arrange to deliver your hired car to your location, if it's not an unreasonable difference.

I even had one car hire operator arrange with an employee to re-open his business after hours at no cost, when I arrived late, and they had shut for the day.

The information I posted came directly from a CASA webpage, it is publically available information. To rage about "placing the name of a deceased person" on a website smacks of some kind of superstition.

Deceased persons names are on this website every week. The pilots name is public knowledge, and all close relatives of the deceased would be notified by now. 

If you want to rage at anyone, rage at CASA for supplying incorrect public records. There are always discussions held about aircraft crashes, to try and determine what went wrong.

To try and shut down crash discussions simply because you're grieving for a family member or friend who is deceased as a result of any crash, is not a sustainable position.

I guess you also want to shut down CH7 and CH9 for reporting the crash, and showing video of the pilot being transported by emergency services?

Posters in the thread have expressed their sadness about the crash, and the loss of a fellow pilot. If just one inexperienced pilot learns something from the discussion, the discussion is worth it.

The West Australian newspaper produced the following information;

"In a statement issued on Saturday, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said it was still “gathering further information regarding the accident.”

“As reported to the ATSB, the aircraft veered to the left after take-off before colliding with the ground,” the statement said.

“The ATSB will assess the circumstances of the accident to determine whether conducting an investigation has the potential to lead to new safety learnings.”

"Veered to the left after take-off" seems indicative of a gust from the prevailing strong ESE/SE wind, on the day of the crash.

No, the bloke built it from a kit. So, yes, I guess this makes the aircraft "homemade", to the average numpty.

Re the ID, the official records state it was a CH-801, so it appears it was a 

And once again, the Police refer to the aircraft as, "homemade"!!   

........went on to become a major shareholder in Turbine Cat Farms Inc. - at no cost to him, of course. In addition, Turbo supplied him with a small gift for the great personal assistance he provided, in aiding Turbo to avoid prosecution - a highly-sought-after, premium TCF product, one of their famous TCF backpacks.

Bull was more than impressed, he was ecstatic about the gifts, and he was then seen...........

(and dear NES readers, we can now show you a secretly-acquired photo of bull proudly wearing his TCF gift while he goes on a major shopping expedition in Central Hobart. This photo will be Exhibit A in bull's upcoming corruption trial......)

Two aircraft in your airline out of action at once, must cause some heartburn in management. I'll wager someone has a lot of forms to fill out.

Maybe the lines are getting worn and hard to see at the angle of approach, and into airport lighting?

As the old saying goes - with some people, their taste is limited to their mouths. Why you'd want to spend 8 hours lying in bed staring up at what resembles the underside of a pile of wooden pallets - suspended about what looks like, a distance of a metre over your head - beats me! You'd bang your head on the pallets, if you got up in the middle of the night.

Even just having your bed inside a wooden mockup of a Huey, seems like a strange obsession to me. I can admire the wooden Huey, if it was garden art - but in the bedroom?? ..... No way!!

Every parcel gets x-rayed today and they don't often miss much. But the problem lies in sea containers and ships that pick up "travellers" and dirt/weeds/seeds that are not picked up.

Fortunately, the constant searches for drugs also uncovers other undesirable imports. But I never cease to be amazed at the illegal imports that show up in the Border Security TV show - and how so many of the travelling idiots play dumb, as regards our quarantine laws. The fines need to go to $5000 and $10,000, so they really learn their lessons.

..... a large number of feathered headdresses were ordered, because these were deemed to be highly necessary whenever meetings of chiefs were held.

As there were now a vastly large number of Chiefs in the organisation, and a vastly lower number of Indians, it was deemed that no less than 5000 headdresses were required.

The order was placed and the headdresses supplied - which then led to more meetings over whose headdress had precedence over others headdresses.

They decided that another meeting had to be held, to thrash out the headdress precedence issue. Meantimes, there was a rumble from...........

I think it's a bit harsh to say Vans can't be trusted. It's obvious a lot of people still trust them. The problems appear to stem from inadequate QC, and inadequate specifications to suppliers.

As Boeing found out, when you outsource manufacturing, you must have intensive QC and strict specifications, that cover every foreseeable angle. 

In Vans case, it appears that they didn't consider that the laser-cut parts supplier would "make adjustments" to cutting processes, that caused the parts problems.

With all laser or plasma cutting procedures, the cut is initiated away from the desired finished cut alignment. The cut is initiated either in the inside of the portion to be cut out, or outside the cut-out area.

Ideally, the cut initiation is carried out inside the cut-out area and the cutter then moves to the finished outline and completes the cut, moving constantly to avoid blowouts or excessive heat buildup, if that is an important factor.

When the cut is initiated, there's always a small blowout from the heat generated at the start point, that enables the cutter to cut right through the material.

But the laser cutter employed, apparently started out doing their cuts from the inside - and then, without consultation, moved the start point for the cuts to the finished cut line - obviously to improve productivity.

This change to edge initiation of cutting caused a tiny blowout and excessive heat buildup on the finished edge, which led to small crack initiation when the plate was dimpled.

Van's have done the right thing, examined the problem and released the details of their examinations. The concern is that any small cracks caused by the undesirable cutting process might propagate when the aircraft is in use.

Van's have studied the potential for the tiny cracks to propagate, and have determined that it's not a safety concern for a large percentage of the parts. But where there is a safety concern, Van's have undertaken to replace those parts.

Boeing's problems developed from an attitude that safety took second place to profits. They suppressed and intimidated whistleblowers within their manufacturing operations, and lied to the FAA.

Boeing assumed more power over safety issues than they should have been allowed, and this was all to do with Boeings overbearing power over FAA employees charged with overseeing Boeing safety issues.

So I don't think it's fair to align Van's with Boeing, as Van's have shown they didn't put profits over safety, and their problems were more likely related to an inadequate number of employees engaged in ensuring QC processes were watertight.

Van's have released the technical reports on the use of parts with laser cut holes, and they have determined there are no safety or durability issues with them.

But they have also pledged to replace dozens of parts they have identified as being structurally critical, in each of the plane kits they manufacture.

The comments below the story are vastly more revealing and interesting, as regards the laser-cutting problems.

Van's Says Laser-Cut Parts Safe, Will Still Replace Some Of Them - AVweb

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KITPLANES is reporting that Van’s Aircraft has released the technical reports on the use of parts with laser cut holes and it has determined there are no safety or durability issues with them. But it has also...

The wind has been screaming from the SE for the last 24 hrs, as a big high pressure system moves into the Bight, and it's coming up against a big trough running N-S through the Western part of W.A., and a low pressure system N of Geraldton. I was in the Wheatbelt yesterday, and the wind was relentless, strong and gusty - with some vicious gusts to probably 30kts.

The record shows the wind from the SE at Bunbury at 3:00PM was at 13kts, and gusting to 20kts. I wouldn't be surprised if a vicious gust was behind this upset.

I can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like for early pilots, with castor oil being thrown all over them.

Constantly smeared goggles, and the castor oil laxative effect. You wouldn't even need to sight a German Fokker, to sh** yourself.