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Dr. I posted a photo of WTF at Geelong Vic a couple of months ago. It must get around. Where is that one?
For those that haven't seen one yet, the new E-Jet dropped into Albury while I was there today at the airshow. http://users.netconnect.com.au/~njah1/ejet.JPG |
Another Cirrus in Canberra.... one could be forgiven for thinking they're breeding over there :suspect:
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"Oh sh*t the wing has fallen off!
I'm outta here! Seeya mate! Enjoy the ride down!" FTDK, yeah something like that! Often the parachute is only warn for comfort/padding in the cockpit. When you learn to glide in Aus, you generally go up without parachutes - madness hey! I own my own parachute these days, so on all gliding flights it comes with me :) Here's a picture of my old mans glider, about to launch @ Kingaroy. It's a Schempp-Hirth Ventus 2cxM. The engine is a 52hp Solo engine, and at MTOW of 565kg it'll easily climb out at over 500fpm (early day self-launchers always struggled to get this). Once at around 2000AGL, the prop is lined up vertically and retracted back into the fuselarge. This transforms the glider into a more traditional 'pure sailplane'.. http://bp3.blogger.com/_s1aKFuHusZQ/...0206W30075.JPG Dad's flown 988km in this bird, and fastest speed around a task of 144km/hr! W3 |
ABX Airshow
What a great plane! Awesome to see it perform.
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/f...AirshowP51.jpg |
She looks fairly tidy these days.
Still don't like the cargo pod. cheers, 185. |
Soaring
When the hat badges equal the AUW of the glider you are cleared to go. |
So true
LOL
Knulp, that is true everywhere I have been gliding! Badge collecting seems to be a sub culture of all gliding enthusiasts.:ok: |
so true..
Aint that the truth re: badges.. However, we've got a more appropriate name for those guys in the gliding world..
OFITTHS - Old Farts in Terry Towling Hats!! You become a 'senior' in gliding on your 26th birthday, so there's not much time left for me :) W3 |
Do any of you sheep-shaggin C185 drivers know the whereabouts of the ex VH-CJT?
Arrived in NZ via a stint on the ice in Antarctica? Rat :cool: |
But I thought Aussie was the place where men are men and the sheep are nervous?? :eek:
You might be talking about ZK-FNX, currently on skydiving ops in the North Island somewhere, I believe that was down the ice before arriving in NZ. I think the original log books are still down there, in the ship which went down.......down there. "http://www.jetphotos.net/photolink.php?id=5897276" |
Re CJT
My records reveal the following
RGO SHORTSERIAL MVT date OWNER ADDRESS Field10 Field11 CJT 1456 ATR 25/02/1970 G. Thomas 30 Second Ave RossmoyneWA Ex N2295T CJT 1456 CO 2/04/1974 G.R. Thomas 21 Sunset Cres KalamundaWA CJT 1456 CO 3/10/1977 Piper West Pty Ltd Jandakot Airport JandakotWA CJT 1456 CO 23/02/1978 B.E. Deane Ambo Station LongreachQLD CJT 1456 CO 9/09/1981 Rex Aviation (Qld) Pty Ltd PO Box 108 RockleaQLD CJT 1456 CO 19/02/1982 D.S. Briffa 44 Herbert St Saddlers CrossinQLD CJT 1456 COA 7/03/1985 D.S. Briffa 2 Wyman St BrassallQLD CJT 1456 CO 2/12/1985 T.J. Molloy 147B Queen St WoollahraNSW CJT 1456 CO 26/12/1985 P.A. Malcolm 147B Queen St WoollahraNSW CJT 1456 SOR 8/08/1986 Exported to New Zealand as ZK-FNX 185. |
Not mine but I got these emailed to me today :eek:
Apologies if you have seen them before. http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...2/pic09318.jpg http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...2/pic01340.jpg http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...2/pic01012.jpg And finally, just in case you thought you had a close call today... http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...2/pic27531.jpg |
Is that Air Canada one for real or a good mock up in photoshop? Surely not real:confused:
J |
If memory serves me correctly, it’s blended with a photo from a test where a bomb was detonated in a retired fuselage. A good effort though!
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Dunno Jaba. Like I said they were just emailed to me.
I hope it is a photoshop jobby though. If it was real it couldn't have ended well.:sad: |
Dave,
That would explain why there are all those lines where the explosion is but not on the rest of the fuselage. Very well done though. |
(old) fake. its a composite photo including a Air France fuselage being detonated in tests
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The last one is a scene from some movie whose name escapes me at the moment.
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hempy , i think the movie is Final Destination .... correct me if i am wrong :ok:
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i remember seeing a GIF image of that last image (with the logs) and someone had chucked the face of King Leonidus from Sparta on the end of the log...
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