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The manufacturer is claiming they will only be leased, not available for purchase, and they will only cost $15 hr to operate?

I wonder who was smoking what, when they came up with that figure??

Of course, I guess they were only costing battery energy costs, they conveniently forgot to mention the $500 hr in development, repair, maintenance, computerisation, testing, and hull losses costs.

See inside a new pilotless cargo plane, which has a nose-loading door like the Boeing 747 and can fly up to 200 miles

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So far, the company has secured over 80 orders for Pelican Cargo, and it expects the first commercial flight to take place in the second half of 2023.

....exhaust pipe, to keep the through-bolts pointed in the correct direction - and not directly at him. However, there came the time when, as Cappy was piloting his famous J230 wearing his KMS's (because they were good for flying, his Elder had told him) and he went to push on a rudder pedal, one of his KMS's tore in half, and the bottom half jammed in the...........

......suffer from the adverse effects of the through-bolts pointing at you, and making you feel extremely sick, to the point of wanting to die!

Cappy became rather alarmed about the thought of a through-bolt pointing directly at him - just the mere mention of it made him feel queasy, so he made sure that he..........

Spacey is correct. And not only info for your state of residence - if you're out of State, it's all there.

This Australia-wide co-ordination came about when a double murderer on the run from Victoria, was pulled up on an isolated stretch of the Gt Northern Hwy out of Karratha, W.A., by a single traffic patrolman.

The copper was innocently questioning the bloke about a fuel drive-off, when he sprung a massive physical attack, and king-hit the copper and nearly killed him.

The double murderer was a big bloke, a lifetime crim, he'd raped and killed two sisters, only days before.

But the copper was still conscious enough to draw his Glock and drill the bloke on the spot, and it was one fatal round. The copper was a firearms instructor, fortunately.

It really brought home the fact that information on wanted crims had to be available in real time, Australia-wide. So the whole police information system became co-ordinated across all States and territories.

But you only have to worry when you see "person of interest", marked on your record - or your car is marked as "stolen"!

https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/laura-and-colleen-irwins-parents-revisit-their-brutal-deaths-at-hands-of-monster-neighbour/news-story/011e20ced2378288b9a7f0c475a1d367

......when the crowds were disbursing - and they nearly always disbursed $10 and $20 notes, which Cappy would pick up with a sharpened stick at 60 knots or more, whilst leaning out of the cockpit and holding a 45° bank. However, during one of the disbursement stunts, Cappy misjudged, and speared a.............

It doesn't look like anyone found out about the story behind it.

https://forums.outandaboutlive.co.uk/topic/47669-new-toad/

No takeover of any Australian company by a giant American corporation, driven purely by profit, has ever ended happily for Australian clients of those companies. At the very least, the product is "watered down".

Walrus - Spot on!! But you forgot the bit where "support" is moved from Australia to a third-world country, where the accents are so thick you can't understand them - or support is only available via email, or by inquiries via the website.

......round in circles with one leg in, and one leg out. However, one has to note, that thanks to some unseen forces, Barnaby Joyce managed to keep his pants on this time, despite being horizontal - which is more than can be said for his time spent in his office with his favourite staffer.

The Libs have currently launched a major internal investigation into these previously unknown and unseen forces that kept Barnabys pants up - with whisperings in Parliamentary Liberal offices that if these forces could be harnessed specifically for Liberal Party use, and their use denied to other political parties, the ramifications would be that Labor politicians could be seen without their pants on, on a scale previously unimaginable, while no Liberal would ever be seen pantless in public again.

Peter Dutton was ecstatic, this was the secret weapon he needed to take back the...........

There was an error in the press release. It was supposed to read like this.......

Continuing its focus on profit over safety regardless of manufacturing issues, and dismissing whistleblowers as disaffected and disgruntled employees, Boeing today announced it has acquired OzRunways. With this acquisition, OzRunways becomes part of the ForeFlight family, and will now fully concentrate on its major company priority - a 35% ROI.

No. The only information is that the pilot was 47 yrs old.

Electrolyte-containing drinks are designed to address a major imbalance in electrolytes in the body caused by dehydration.

If you're not dehydrated, you have no need for electrolyte drinks. An excess of electrolytes in the body can be worse than being dehydrated.

What has happened to Rollo McKinleys Aeropup manufacturing operations? Have they ceased for good?

I sighted a news article in a Gympie media publication (behind a paywall) from Oct 2023, indicating that the McKinleys had been involved in a lease dispute on their Aeropup manufacturing facility at Kybong.

I believe there has been a long running dispute over ever-increasing council rents for Kybong aerodrome and land, with lessees complaining they're getting nothing from the local council for the massive rents imposed on them.

Council shoots down aircraft business

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Gympie Regional Council has shot down an export aircraft manufacturing business at Kybong aerodrome, after a lease dispute with the [...]

Ian, the membership contribution is something I think I've forgotten to pay for this year - yet I can't find any section where payment can be made, or whether one is up-to-date on contributions?

You only become a first class member by financially contributing to the running of the site.

The scene is declared a crime scene to ensure no evidence is disturbed until an official police investigation is complete.

Police are eternally suspicious, and need to be satisfied that every serious event, from fires to death, do not have indications of foul play.

If you've ever had a house fire, you'll know that police immediately investigate and interview you, and declare it a crime scene until they're satisfied they've found the exact cause of the fire, and there are no reasons to suspect a crime has been committed.

Probably about every third house fire is arson of some type. Angry tenants, love triangles, criminality involving setting fires to cover up robbery or other crimes, financial reward from insurance, the list is substantial. 

Someone may have had it in for the pilot and sabotaged the aircraft, this has to be checked out thoroughly, the police question the pilots closest relatives to dig up problems that raise warning flags.

It is part of police pyschology to advertise that a major event is a crime scene, this makes potential crime planners think twice about carrying out cunning crimes.

If you allow an endless period for continuing to modify posts, it makes threads turn into unreadable stuff-ups and makes following posts illogical.

It's far better to have a 20 minute window to correct spelling errors and links, and to make sure you proof read before you post. 98% of forums operate this way.

I use Plastic Fusion, they claim to be the original super glue. This stuff is made in the U.S., and is a two-pack epoxy, and it has high strength and is extremely durable.

https://www.gluesaustralia.com.au/the-original-super-glue-10-minute-fast-setting-pla

However Plastic Fusion won't glue Polypropylene or Polyurethane or ABS resins, the "hard to glue" plastics. For PP, PU and ABS, I use JB Weld "Plastic Bonder".

This stuff is also a 2-pack epoxy, and it's the greatest adhesive I've come across for these difficult-to-bond materials.

https://www.jbweld.com/product/j-b-plastic-bonder-syringe

Link to the ABC article below;

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-11/paraglider-crash-victoria-colac-west/103453210

I'm only 3 months away from my 75th birthday and I consider myself still pretty fit for my age. However, I injured my left shoulder in Sept 2022 (incurring an inflamed bursar, by skylarking and not acting my age - I dived left-shoulder first onto what I thought was going to be a soft landing, and unfortunately I landed on hard ground - lesson learnt). As a result of visiting my local surgical practice, the first doc (a Chinese woman) picked up my BP was 200/100.

She went ballistic, exclaiming I was at immediate risk of dropping dead or having a major stroke. I explained that maybe some of the reasons behind the high BP was, (a) I was in screaming agony from the damaged shoulder, and didn't have any idea of what damage I'd done to it - (b) I'd lost about 3 nights sleep due to excruciating pain, and (c) I was in a doctors surgery, a well-known reason for increased BP.

I had previously never had any reason to worry about my BP, although I knew it had been slowly increasing over recent years - but was still within the right range for my age. However, I hadn't had a BP check for about 4 years prior to the shoulder injury, largely thanks to COVID restrictions.

This woman doctor virtually refused to listen to me, and put me on an enzyme blocker (ACE inhibitor), which apparently soften arteries and veins. Somewhat surprisingly to me, they work, and they have no side effects that I've noticed.

In the meantimes, after some ultrasounds that determined the shoulder damage was largely torn ligaments and soft tissue damage, plus the inflamed bursar, I got a steroid injection into the bursar which reduced the pain and the shoulder healed quite well after about 6 mths.

I couldn't take the woman doctors rather abrasive attitude, so in early 2023, I moved to another male Australian doctor in the same surgery, for ongoing treatment and check-ups. This bloke was a fitness merchant, he was 56, in fine-looking shape - although he had a nasty-looking arterial bulge in his temple that I regularly felt like raising a discussion with him about it - but I didn't.

An arterial bulge like that on my body, would have made me greatly concerned - but I guessed, as a doc, he knew all about it, and any potential problems associated with it (likelihood of other arterial problems), so I never brought it up.

But just 3 mths after I started seeing him, and with another appointment scheduled for one morning last May, I was all set to leave home, when I received an SMS from the surgery. It went "Dear Mr OT - we have to advise you that your appt with Dr X this morning will have to be cancelled, as we have just received information that he has passed away early this morning".

It turned out that this bloke had gone for his daily early morning jog around a large local park, and had dropped dead on the spot (at age 56), with passers-by unable to revive him. Maybe I should've raised the subject of that nasty arterial bulge on his temple with him! Incidentally, my BP at my check-up  yesterday was 136/74, pretty normal for people my age, apparently.

Maybe the designers of the ASML Aero machine, also have plans for a high-tech, cheap ejection seat, for their product? 

Micus - There's enormous environmental pressure on authorities and Govts to remove 2 stroke engines from general use, thanks to their polluting exhaust emissions profile. BRP ceasing manufacturing 2 stroke Evinrude outboards in 2020.

Other 2 stroke engine manufacturers have been reducing their 2 stroke engine emissions by adopting the likes of direct injection. Carburettor 2 stroke production globally, is tailing off very rapidly, as pressure to reduce emissions, bites in every area of engine use.

I found this reference (below) online that may be useful to you, so I would suggest you contact Transport Canada or the ECCC or your EPA to find out how long you've got left, to purchase and use 2 stroke engines. It will only be a few years.

In December, your Environment Minister released the Canadian EPA plan whereby production and importation of gasoline engines in vehicles into Canada, is projected to cease in 2035. That initially sounds like a long time away, but it's only 11 years. 

"Authority to regulate emissions from internal combustion engines in Canada rests with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Transport Canada. Under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999 (CEPA 1999), Environment Canada has the authority to regulate emissions from on-road engines, as well as from most categories of off-road engines. Authority to regulate emissions from aircraft, railway locomotives and commercial marine vessels remains with Transport Canada. Regulations have been adopted to control emissions of criteria air contaminants (CAC) as well as greenhouse gases (GHG)."

You're entitled to see all your medical history and doctors opinions, as well as all your blood test results. A lot of people fail to ask for this information, but a lot of docs treat it as a secret they have to keep.

........his only character flaw is a seething hatred of bunnies, with the very sight of cottontails turning him from a mild-mannered aerobatic jock, into a red-necked, foamy-mouthed aviation terror, straight out of the finest Quentin Tarantino movie, dealing sudden death with explosive ordnance onto any naive and unsuspecting........

It's a dinosaur. 2 strokes are being outlawed everywhere, and many manufacturers are ceasing production of them, so if you buy a Simonini 2 stroke, you may find it will either be illegal to import it, or it will have restrictions placed on its use in the near future. At the very best, you may find that you'll be purchasing amongst the last of the Simonini 2 stroke line, and when you go to get parts for it, you'll find you're the owner of an obsolete orphan.