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Old 29th Nov 2011, 12:10
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Solid Rust Twotter
 
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Shooting your mouth off re subjects of which you have little or no knowledge will attract the sciolist tag. Look around you. Bots is not exactly a harsh bush environment. Try PNG, Arctic/Antarctic/Alaska/North West Territories for those. Point being the 'Van is not particularly rugged (try putting one on floats into even a mild chop and see what becomes of your firewall), not a particularly good short field machine and is not something that can be operated with minimal attention to the mechanical bits. In short, it's a bit soft for the job. Good for tar to tar, great for the short hop freight role for which Fedex wanted it but a bit of a liability trying to land in soft mud, four inches of water or a seriously unprepared strip.
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