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My Aeroflyte Brolga 2 meter sailplane with carbon capped spars and multihedral wing mod...the carbon wing allows for rocket launches. This sailplane has an onboard vario just like the big ones. Brolga launching on bungee

Do you know what they are paying their ground staff and thus the quality of worker they are employing these days? I was contract ground crew for Virgin Blue for 7 years and I loved it but I had to get out...the pay and conditions were appalling. When I left we were earning $21 per hour casual...but do the maths...I still managed to earn almost $70k for several of the later years due to the hours we worked with no minimum/suitable rest periods doing constant split shifts. My ticker finally started to spit the dummy and I had to get out. None of the basic safety rules were being followed...especially when it came to drug testing of staff. They just didn't do it full stop. I did end up reporting all this to CASA through their confidential reporting portal in the end when the guilt of what was happening got to be too much. Virgin and CASA sent their people in...CASA was only there for one morning...and they left after lunch. The Guys I was working with that night all sighed in relief and rushed to their cars excitedly to go home and get their "bongs" in before the last flight arrived. And I am not making this up or guessing. They told me. Virgin itself cared even less but they did remove the contract from the company I was working for not long after I left and found another job. Funny thing is the new company that took over paid even less.

Nah.

Far out.

I reckon they are dreaming.

I'm no scientist...but I would imagine that oxygen and liquid plays a major part in erosion and ageing on earth and that the materials would age better in the vacuum of space regardless of temperature. Of course if it is hit by space debris that may be different.

Someone needs to pull the plug on this thread.

And in answer to your question... I reckon you chop the nose off...add a firewall and a motor...and go fly it?

That is so sad.

What a mess this whole Ra-Aus thing is. It is incredible that so many people...including instructors...have no idea of the rules regarding their operations. Incredible and a very sure sign that things are still far from okay in my opinion.

Rockwell Commander folded it's nosegear on landing.

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How lucky was he not to be killed.

After you...

Good one. Pun intended?

No need to guess-------->3DLabPrint

No biggie really.

P.S. Did you say someone in your video was 165 years old???

I would rather hear the flying sounds than music. Which is a shame for me because the footage is great and I would have loved to watch it.

Flown by Steve

Flown by Steve

Comment deleted...(A little sympathy for the injured wouldn't hurt, appreciate the joke but a little out of place...Mod)

Comment deleted...(A little sympathy for the injured wouldn't hurt, appreciate the joke but a little out of place...Mod)