YBBN will be fun this evening!
A lot of the cables were installed there in the 70s. That is last century.
I remember sitting in an Islander parked outside Rex Aviation watching a couple C180s come adrift from a cable and slide across the concrete during a storm in the mid 70s. One ended up under the wing of the Islander with the LH wingtip on the ground just clear of the RH main gear of the Islander.
The reason I was in the Islander was that there were no spare tiedown points anywhere on the field and had just parked it as the storm stuck. The place was full of aeroplanes. So I parked the Islander's tail to the expected wind as per the AFM. Other wise it would have flown away.
I remember sitting in an Islander parked outside Rex Aviation watching a couple C180s come adrift from a cable and slide across the concrete during a storm in the mid 70s. One ended up under the wing of the Islander with the LH wingtip on the ground just clear of the RH main gear of the Islander.
The reason I was in the Islander was that there were no spare tiedown points anywhere on the field and had just parked it as the storm stuck. The place was full of aeroplanes. So I parked the Islander's tail to the expected wind as per the AFM. Other wise it would have flown away.
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actually,there was very littel wind involved with most of the storms that passed through sydney last night, very heavy rain, countless lightning strikes at bankstown, but only 15 kt wind gusts.
I was just north of the city last night, vertical and horizontal rain combined for 30 mins but very little wind. The traffic came to a standstill and it took over an hour from St Leonards to the City (usually 20 mins).
If this is global warming, I'm not impressed.
If this is global warming, I'm not impressed.
The wind here at Richmond was a lot more than 15 kts! A number of large trees felled. And it bucketed down. Most of the town lost power for several hours. Traffic chaos as all seven sets of traffic lights were off. Even the trains were stranded. It was the wildest wx I've seen for quite a while.
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Maybe a bit on the south side.
Was a fizzer. My car hardly got wet all evening and even now it is hardly doing more than wet the grass.
The other week however
Was a fizzer. My car hardly got wet all evening and even now it is hardly doing more than wet the grass.
The other week however
