jas24zzk, you are most wise. Your plan is hereby approved!! Here, have a Cigar...

Can i munch on it the same way Bob Hoover does mid loop? Or do I need some more money to pay off casa after they view my gootube video?

Nah, just the pharmacist. :}
If not the pharmacist, save it for your lawyers when you get :mad:ed over by the ugliest/loudest in the Family Court. :E
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Seriously, good luck with the 50 mil. It would be nice to read about someone who'd managed to keep it...

I'd go shopping in the states for a low time, well looked after C441 with Dash 10's, 4 blade black-macs, and upgrade the avionics with all the latest gear. **sigh**

Forget about flying for a while.? If ever.?

Does anybody know anything at all about this sunken treasure?


But while we're talking 30 mill fantasies, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............

.................... give me a home where the buffalo roam ...............and I'll show you a house full of dirt.

VH-BRD - Lost while being towed from Brisbane to the Gold Coast on February 1 1954, where it was intended to be used as a floating restaurant. The wreckage has never been located. If you do a quick search of the site you will find a great picture by Aye Ess of what it might look like on the sea floor.

Fantome,DC3 Qld....here is my 'artist impression' of VH-BRD. Probably your $30 mill would be sunk faster than this aeroplane.

http://i1032.photobucket.com/albums/...ars/VH-BRD.jpg

Interesting. It wouldn't be off shore near Jacob's Well, would it? Mate of mine swears he once saw the shape of an aircraft on the seabed with his fishing scanner.

He didn't think there had been any accidents near there so he thought no more about it.

1. Get rid of the greens, tree huggers, dogooders etc

2. Buy King Island and suceed from Australia.

3. Make King Island a duty free zone.

4. Build a brewery on the Island to compliment the cheese factory and meatworks.

5. Put CLX the mighty Heron back in the air after a total restoration.

OK, it's lotto time again, and 50 milllion is going to buy a lot of toys.
I think one of the Burmese Spitfires should find a home here in Australia - that will burn through the first 3 million, then I want to see Wanderin Dave's Non Profit Air Experience Centre up and running so everyone can come and fly in it.
Best of luck to you all, but I think I am due to win this time.

Sorry old mate. I've already got the winning ticket. :E

First step, establish an RAA school to replace our recently closed establishment.

Couple of Texan Clubs for basic instruction, couple of CTLS's for cross country work, couple of Carbon Cub SS's for taildragger endorsements and a couple of Sting RG's for retractable endorsements.

All instructors paid well above award. Low hire and instruction rates to reflect the small profit margin (aka tax loss) requirement. Fund a few scholarships each year for interested and committed youngsters.

Then expand to GA training.

Then Tiger Moth, Harvard, and the Darwin Heritage Flight of P-40, Zero and Spitfire - just for the February 19 Bombing Commemoration displays. :D

And a couple of PC-21's for Turbine endorsements and mock dogfighting with Coodakid3.

Sigh.........

But at the moment (and in the absence of any hireable RAA aircraft or affordable GA aircraft) I'd settle for a clapped out Jabiru 120. :{

Its MY 50 mil.....
 

Will invest 10 in shares, 10 in cash.
The Romanian company that did the new build Pratt powered Yak 3s will get an order for 5,? ..how many do you think? ..half a dozen enough?.. La 5FNs or 7s.
Balance to other aviation enjoyments.:ok:..motor glider perhaps.

THEN the 20 mil remaining will be used to do a huge multi media campaign, print TV, whatever by the seriously ANTI CASAists. :ok:
To get the message across that past and current Governments, Ministers and Depts of Transport etc ...have left CASA alone to be come a law unto itself, unaccountable and seriously opaque/non transparent, to grow and become a monster.
A creche for cretins that have damaged the GA industry to the point of collapse, to the anger and ire of many who love it and work in it...or did once.

While there may be many good folk beavering away in CASA ( I do hope so..and assume they are not all trough dwellers)... for what end when incompetents let loose out of regional offices go around creating mayhem FOR NO BENEFIT TO THE SAFETY CASE...at a cost of squillions.:mad:
And with all the hurt, angst and legal costs to the victims... and the effing perps just pull their heads in and walk away.:mad:
ITS BS, AND IT HAS TO STOP.
The campaign will be for TOTAL regime change, regulatory sanity and nothing less.
To re-vitalise and grow GA ...that would be money well spent

Thump!
Oh !!!!! I just fell out of bed!...was dreaming about something...::uhoh::\:{

It would be cheaper to become a resident KIWI. That sort of cash would alter their fiscal balance to the extent I may even join you.

:hmm:

Quite right FA...under the current system in Bureaucratalia aka Regulatastan..in reality it would be a classic WOFTAM. :E

Actually the 20mil might get a rusty old Rusky nuke artillery shell.... that would solve the problem permanently.......but create too many others, like bribes, freight costs, shipping and 'end-user' docs. Pass.

Na Zilan is certainly a very beautiful country... and as an aviation minded nation it leaves Oz for dead. Great fush and chups ,too. But the cold....!! Pass again.

Being an Australopicethus Tropicanensis, me old blood's too thin for that.

GA and Rec Aviation is on the move in Thailand, I hear. I'll check it out shortly. Warmer too. And a CASA free zone. I'll drink to that. Tick.:ok:

A Winjeel and Caribou for me!

I would inject what is needed to finish off what restoration projects are going on around the place like the Liberator in Melbourne, Beau up in QLD, a couple of Boomer projects, Spit, Mustang and P-40 projects. Then make sure that they can all fly around the country for all to enjoy some old aircraft.

Ok I will just wake up from a dream.

CoodaShooda I will get a PC-21 just so I can play with you too.

Well it is now up to $70 million for next week!

I have to say, whilst pprune is nearly always negative, especially here in D&G, it is awesome to see how many potential philanthropists we have that would put back into this money pit we all love and mostly - well sometimes - well maybe used to - enjoy.

I do sincerely hope one of us aviation philanthropists does win this as maybe an injection of a large fortune into GA/flying schools/warbirds (as this seems where most would look at) will result in a small fortune being made by someone and expanding the influence of GA in this country.

Good luck to all next week.

Cheers
CB

Well, I collected the immense sum of $15.40 today from the weekend lotto....
Think I'll just mosey out and put about 7 litres or so into the Tiger Moth.....

'POP'!!

:D :ok: