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The aircraft is an early model Maule! DF. |
Taken a year ago i think, in the Barkly region
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Frigatebird you're not wrong about the old SAFGO checklists - I have one in my Bonanza - and APNG can go fck themselves, its staying in my Bonanza:E
I found my SAFGO gathering dust on a shelf in a flying school at YBCG - they didn't want it so I grabbed it - back in the early 90s you could still buy them new - I bought one for my C185 - I heard the manufacturer stopped making them due to a liability suit.:ugh: Every Talair aircraft had one (with aircraft specific check items - mine is personalised for my Bo) and, in my view, it was a major reason why we could leap from an Islander to C402, Twotter and Bandit - sometimes in the same day - safely. http://www.fototime.com/{A95BB729-3A...ZU%20panel.JPG There was a roller blind checklist in an ex RFDS C441 I used to fly - hated it/never used it. http://www.fototime.com/{0F1A52FD-7E...pict/Chuck.JPG |
I have used the roller blind check lists in a number of aircraft both single pilot (C404) and two pilot (Dash8) and they worked well. You had to be disiplined to never go past an item until it was actioned. Do that and we never had a problem. Like everything else you had to have a system and be trained to use it.
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This was a couple of weeks ago, had to get to 8500 to get that view, that's dust not cloud. Groundspeed at that height was 60kts.
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p...fart/dusty.gif slow trip. |
Super Cecil, is that taken from a Super Cub?
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http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/o..._inversion.jpg
Took this going through about 8,000ft as well, on climb to FL270 or whatever it was that day. Certainly a strong inversion! morno |
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Chimbu, not a Supercub. Ultralight those are snorter shots.
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A bit of nostalgia
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y15...n/corsair3.jpg and today.... http://webzoom.freewebs.com/cafcorsa...scheme%208.jpg |
Make you cry to remember that old stuff tinpis? That's the trouble with being an oldfart the older you get the better things used to be. Great shot where wassit?
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Asplins garage Rukuhia circa 1965
One of its mates :{ http://webzoom.freewebs.com/cafcorsa...Rukahia_sm.jpg |
In later years I worked with a gentleman that ferried a few of them there in 1949
Hopped out, went back by transport and got another one :( |
Super C - Better to be a Has-Been with the memories and the photos, than a Never-Gonna-Be without either ..!!;)
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I agree Mr F Bird, I think the best times are gone, for GA type flying anyway.
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Probably finished about 30 years ago Mr Cecil
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yip, agree witht that. When I wazza kid you could hear a radial most days, DC 3's, Carabous, Ag machinery. I consider myself lucky to have flown radials a bit on the AG side, I think Drom's are the only radial working for a living these days and maybe still an odd thrush or Tractor?
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What a bugger being dumped in here as a little boy?
Not me BTW http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y15...ukuhiap40s.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/tinpis/P40s1.jpg |
:eek: Bejebus :eek:
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My Dad told stories about Oakey like that after the war. Then a big hole was dug and they were dozed in. He got a Willeys jeep, and a couple of Army Ducks which he pulled the floatation gear off and built flat bodies on to cart bagged grain to the Dumps from the grainfarm. An uncle had a Boomerang fuselage on his neighbouring farm that I used to play in as a kid. Another early memory was of Charlie Russells first Bonanza into Australia. Quite radical with a V-Tail then. The only photo I have of it is from an early magazine.
P.S. Just for interest, photo of an Army Duck used for amphibious net fishing on the beach at Southport, Northern England, May '83 http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/y...scan0001-3.jpg |
Some of the story
I biked 20 miles round trip in the weekends to get in amongst this lot The old Corsair had silica gel plugs and inhibiting oil in it They cranked the old bugger over after 16 odd years and it blew out a huge cloud of white smoke and settled into a steady idle. Magic Home At Last |
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Used to be a place on the old Oakey Rd west of TWB with a collection of old WW2 airframes.....there was a Canberra against the front fence can't say with certainty what the others were but I believe there was at least one P51 and other paraphenalia.........used to nick the old mans pushbike at crack of dawn on saturday and ride out there, spend a few hours digging around the paddock and playing Biggles in the cockpits. Got a few floggings for wagging the lawn mowing etc, but was worth it.
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VH-XXX
Is it VH-CRN?
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Close PF, however it's not there any more. Wonder if anyone has seen it at it's new home.
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Oh well, I've never seen the aircraft and never been to Tooradin.
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From your photos, its easy to see why not many live Inland other than the miners and a few hardy cattlefolk. Australia with its area of 2,966,200 sq.miles just pipps the 48 Contiguous States and Washington D.C. with its 2,959,481 sq.miles (without the Great Lakes water areas) of the U.S., but we don't have a river like the snow fed Mississippi running down the Centre. The Boat People don't go there on arrival either. Only go that far when I visit my cousins, the pelicans, when the surfs up on Lake Eyre. An easy one - where is it? http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/y...b/scan0001.jpg |
Good way to start the New Year!
Hmmmmm seems to have ample horsepower.....
http://i1.bebo.com/050b/4/large/2010...044398742l.jpg http://i1.bebo.com/052b/13/large/201...044398779l.jpg comment by our resident plane tart after doing a couple of hours up front was..... "I'd rather do this than :mad:!!! :} Should be some better pics to follow when they arrive! One of the best AVGAS to Noise/Fun converters around.:ok: J:) |
Looks like fun Mr Wocky, Ultralights when was that Bankstown one taken? It's been a little while since I was there but bloody hell, if it didn't have that little hill there and those hangers on the southern side I wouldn't have recognised it!
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Trojan
Jabba,
Is that DPT from Tyabb? Beautiful machine, that radial sound makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up:ok: |
Lovely machine jaba, I had a sit in that particular one a couple of weeks ago. Now all I need to do is score a ride in it:E
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Is that DPT from Tyabb? Beautiful machine, that radial sound makes the hair on the back of your neck stand uphttp://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...ies/thumbs.gif |
Mr Wocky, does Dave get back there for a fly very often? Where's he based these days?
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Gooday MAV, All I need to do is score a ride in it too! Maybe next time. The Chuckler was getting trained for it......and yes it was hard to keep the smile off his face!
Thought I heard you on BNE CEN the other night (wed?) Hope ya having fun! Trojan 50%...........it lives up here but I think you know the machine! Its a cracker!:ok: If I get some better pics I will post them, I am surprised Chimbu Chuck has not any video.....mind you he may have been a little busy!:) |
Yeah like I had the spare capacity for fcking with my camera - I didn't even have the spare capacity to think to give it to someone and say "Takes lots of pics/vids.:}
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Frigatebird, that would be Maryborough (YMYB) taken in the long ago.. probably November going by the weather ? I have a similar vintaged photo taken mere seconds before one of my worst ever landings, whilst taking my dad on his first trip with me.
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A clue for this one, Victoria. Observant viewers will be able to see a critical feature that will tell almost anyone where this is.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~bc_j400/strip.jpg |
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