Nah Pyro, my first retractable endorsement was done with Gill Layt in a green Mooney Super 21 VH-MWB. It had a big lever between the two front seats that operated the gear. When the gear was down the lever was upright and locked in under the panel, and when the gear was up the lever locked down between the seats.

VH-MWB was put in the drink off Newcastle in the 70's by a pilot who ran a tank dry and couldn't get it started again quickly.

Dr :8

CFK is now owned by Jock Folan - based at Lilydale.

Started life owned by Civil Flying School - where the 'CF' came from.

Bevan..

Seems every Bonza I have flown ends up at Lilydale!
BE35 VH-FWE (ex Stanbroke Pastoral Company - new in 1966?) now at Lilydale (or was until recent wheels up!)
BE36 VH-FCT (bought new in 1974 to replace FWE at Stanbroke) now at Lilydale (FCT = Fort Constantine = Stanbroke property at Cloncurry)
BE35 VH-CFK at Lilydale

Where are:
DLQ (Debonair)
PAD (Debonair)

So Pyro, that second pic looks like the dash of a Jabiru that was in the Jimbour gaggle! Did you manage to bum a ride with Jaba?

Dr :8

DLQ is regd to an owner in Kuranda Q
PAD is a hot air balloon regd in Yarra Valley Vic (since 1997)

Refuelling a HUGE R/C model aeroplane

How to start a Mooney with a shagged batt.:hmm::rolleyes:

Now Tinny, where the hell did you get that?

That Lycoming gave me a hard time all day! Give me an IO520 any time!

Dr :8

Ummm...it sorta popped up on the interwebby thing Dr
I WOULD NOT go rummaging around on that site there for any other vids though ....oh no no no...:=:eek:

Yes Dr.
Jaba took me up for some fun in the Jabiru. Was a great flight! :cool:

Hey Tin

You are a sneeky fella.....by the way the R/C guy is not Bill, one of the other R/C guys is bill but the Jetstar guy is another fella.

I tell ya what though.....the Landcruiser 200 series is a nice truck:ok: Owned by a REALLY top bloke too:}

of course, in that video, the REAL pilot was the guy in the right seat :p

-hides from the wrath of Dr. Killer -

(it was a joke, don't kill me!)

And here was me thinking the 'shagged batt' would have meant hand-swinging the prop. Soon as I saw the length of the video I knew I was wrong - I dont know anyone who can start an engine by hand in one minute 53!:}

Paper run pics
 

Some pictures from a paper run last year:)...

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...1/587d779d.jpg
The latest hangout..


http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...1/d01c5a28.jpg
Nice town:E

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...1/cf34dbb4.jpg
Pick an airport, any airport... Hint, the beaten up old GPU by the building looks like its been there for a while.

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...1/ffdd795f.jpg
Going fast..

Pffft! You don't know you're born. We used to do the NT News paper run at night in C210's.

Our predecessors used a 182.




<sings> "Yesterdayyyyyy........."

Hmmmm...night...15000'...turbo-prop...

You will notice the usual GA status of the Wx radar......:rolleyes:



stuffed

??? or just turned off?

Dr :8

By the daylight on the top of the dash it must have been 8/8ths of blue above!:ok:

Nice pics Nightmode!

J

DAYLIGHT paper runs?....What kind of nancy-boy outfit is this? :=

Daylight comes after a long night :) -- This day they had some hassles at the paper printers and the departure was delayed by about 2-3 hours. From memory a new setup was being trialed whereby the papers were picked up in BNE, fuel in LRE, Crew change and fuel in Isa, DN, TNK, then AS - then ferry back to TL. Radar was in the OFF mode :} - had severe cavok :)

Someone got me started on these pics so some more random ones from around the traps:
This storm
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...1/87d8eeb2.jpg

Spun that around on the tarmac, relocated the bungs and gave a free compressor wash.
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...1/69685991.jpg

Sunrise somewhere on the way to MK
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...1/23f69c3f.jpg

Night moonscape somewhere between MK and RK
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...1/56ea52e5.jpg

Where's Samuel L Jackson when you need him?:E
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...e7b5dc008d.jpg

Haha, classic Cap'n! :D