danny_galaga

Hydrogen- specialised machinery. Heavy transport. Battery- cars, motorbikes. Some light aircraft. Oil- shipping, trains, jets.

How can it be new if it's 'been assembled twice'?

Just read about Polini engines recently. Freakin cheap as! https://www.beliteaircraft.com/polini-thor-250-engine-review-the-best-ultralight-engine-weve-seen/

It's coal particulates that causes asthma and death, not cow dung. 1984 is a long time ago.

Rolls Royce are developing compact nuclear power stations. They will be roughly the size of two football fields in total. They have actually said they would love to build in Australia. Nuclear is not perfect, but Australia had to be about the BEST place in the world to build a nuclear power station.

The Economist reports that in India roughly 112,000 people die each year because of coal pollution.

Goddam scary is all I can say!

Mods have fixed the voting now. Those of you with several Ra-aus registered aircraft- one with and one without just vote yes AND no 🙂 If you have MORE than two Ra-aus aircraft well damn! 😄 If none have transponders just vote no, if they all have transponders just vote yes. If some do some don't vote yes AND no. Derek Liston, I think your vote counts as it's an aircraft that is often registered Ra-aus 🙂

This kinda thing in case there's any confusion. Is it called mode C? (And yes that pic is of a pretty old model, but you get the idea)

Can someone change the poll options to multiple choice for me? Thanks in advance 🙂

I think for this purpose I mean that thing with the four digit code you can squawk for air traffic control to identity you with

Yes, up to mtow 600. I used the term ultralight to keep the heading simple. Also I didn't think of the fact some people would have more tha one aircraft. Unfortunately you have about two seconds to edit posts here but I'll see if I can get the pool changed to multiple votes

I would count that as a yes then 🙂

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Good outcome. What I'm most impressed about is that he was wearing a Fedora 🥰 Say what you will about the French, they have a lot of style!

What Skippy is asking though is that if it's so scientific, why do you get seemingly different results? Propeller design seems almost like Feng Shui- the result seems to depend on however the individual designer feels at the time 😄

Loved the first Gal Gadot Wonder woman movie, but yes the second was pretty disappointing

I think it was plausible. It's as simple as it being at the time the longest runway in the southern hemisphere and the us military were on friendly terms with Australia. Also it is RAAF property so if a shuttle did have to land at Darwin it would have been readily secured. Dunno about 5km. Maybe if you count every metre of grass either end. Also there wasn't much civilian infrastructure either end. A few houses and then the sea at one end and some bushland at the other.

I learnt to fly at Darwin international. Can't get much more military then that! Sometimes you be in a circuit and Todd see two FA 18s take off together. Or your have to do orbits while a 747 landed. Certainly an experience but you don't get many touch n goes in an hour on a 3300 metre runway 😄

If the planes I was flying had electric, the instructors did not make us aware of them. Only ever was aware of the wheel. Maybe earlier models didn't have them? Or it was an option?

I think it did on the Piper Warrior?

Yes, the Golf I hire has the stabilator. But so did the Piper Warrior I learnt to fly with, and its trim was mechanical. Facthunter is right about the control column switch being handier (I said toggle before but I misremembered it with the flap switch- old age I guess 😄 ) . Even so I really don't like the feel of it.

If your argument is that electric trim is unnecessary, I don't disagree. I hate it on the Tecnam. It feels more like a timing thing than a trim thing when you use them

Yes but on the electric trim like in a Tecnam, it's just a two way spring toggle. The switch always looks the same. Same with the flaps. Although you can see the flaps visually.

I would imagine there's a potentiometer at the motor end to feed back the position. But I'm just guessing. Is it a tecnam?