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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
18th Aug 2012, 20:49
Replies: 14
Views: 3,352
Posted By jokova

The little shrine at Moorabbin Airport to ...

The little shrine at Moorabbin Airport to Hawker is not well looked after.

Probably needs a volunteer who knows who he was to take an interest.

Today on the airport SFA would give a ...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
3rd Aug 2009, 13:46
Replies: 1,259
Views: 188,783
Posted By jokova

Thanks - I've run the Repair permissions and hope...

Thanks - I've run the Repair permissions and hope that this fixes things. I don't have any virus detection I know the problems they can cause and I haven't put any old control panel things on but of...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
3rd Aug 2009, 00:49
Replies: 1,259
Views: 188,783
Posted By jokova

MacBook Pro slo-o-o-o-o-o-ow wheel

Please....
Have just upgraded my iBook G4 to a MacBook Pro. When it's good its very very good (fast, between programs, in and out, up and down, great!) but after a couple of days it slows down so...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Mar 2009, 05:03
Replies: 1
Views: 815
Posted By jokova

Have looked in a few histories that list all...

Have looked in a few histories that list all allied pilots who flew in B of B. Have not found one though, John Austen PIMLOTT (601 SQN before the war. SQN LDR at end of war.)

Most grateful if...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
8th Mar 2009, 07:43
Replies: 24
Views: 4,353
Posted By jokova

Grounds for exemption? Just a tad precious? No...

Grounds for exemption? Just a tad precious? No more hoops for Sully?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Oct 2008, 10:47
Replies: 42
Views: 4,963
Posted By jokova

After lift and propulsion and radio/radar there's...

After lift and propulsion and radio/radar there's little point to this exercise.

When Peter Cook was looking morose one day a friend asked him why.

"Will I ever be remembered for anything...
Forum: Private Flying
2nd Sep 2006, 03:58
Replies: 13
Views: 4,855
Posted By jokova

The Stemme's Porsche engine is behind the...

The Stemme's Porsche engine is behind the cockpit. On engine start the spinner/nose cone moves forward and the prop blades come out centifugularly. The long carbon fibre drive shaft goes up the...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
19th Aug 2006, 22:10
Replies: 23
Views: 3,084
Posted By jokova

Stay Home In Nudawadding

Of course, of course, of course, it's all very unpleasant for everyone concerned (i.e. all who fly where everyone else wants to fly - unlike where I fly - as remote from all external threat as you...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
19th Aug 2006, 18:40
Replies: 4
Views: 2,028
Posted By jokova

Had a perfectly idyllic hour or two there in...

Had a perfectly idyllic hour or two there in June. Mosied up the western shore after crossing from Hervey Bay, enjoying close up of fishing boats then crossed to that little grass strip on the...
Forum: ATC Issues
17th Apr 2006, 18:28
Replies: 1,636
Views: 2,454,482
Posted By jokova

There was a man in a Moth staged through Darwin...

There was a man in a Moth staged through Darwin in the early thirties. He'd named his plane 'The Five Winds'. When asked by the local newspaper reporter how so, he said in his very British accent:...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
5th Oct 2005, 01:44
Replies: 86
Views: 8,628
Posted By jokova

A little respect . . . .

. . . . would not go astray. Some seek truth, (others, their long suit's abuse) . . . . . .

http://pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=192760...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
4th Oct 2005, 12:10
Replies: 86
Views: 8,628
Posted By jokova

A VIGNETTE

Lightly imbued with the stamp of Henry Lawson, and the swag carrying exemplars enshrined in his imperishable stories, those on the wallaby that were always there, in sunshine or in shadow, today he...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
30th Jun 2005, 18:54
Replies: 60
Views: 15,099
Posted By jokova

Trust 'em with the change. . .

In "Flight International", mid to late eighties, an article appeared titled "Four Bars and Female". The issues raised included the inequitable amount of effort required by a woman to succeed...
Forum: Private Flying
30th Jun 2005, 17:38
Replies: 58
Views: 13,190
Posted By jokova

Useful Cbs

Despite some posts on this thread saying that ALL Cbs are best avoided, there may be exceptions - such as using the power of the monster to obtain phenomenal height gains in sailplanes.

Out...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
3rd Jun 2005, 22:44
Replies: 57
Views: 5,147
Posted By jokova

PULL THE OTHER ONE

sunfish: Hold out your hand for camel stamp - ace sleuthing.

dijical: Pull the other one, if you expect anyone to swallow your

utter tripe, that...
Forum: ATC Issues
3rd Jun 2005, 04:44
Replies: 1,636
Views: 2,454,482
Posted By jokova

A DOLLAR WOULD BE NICE. . .

. . . . for every time taxying out with half a dozen captive sightseers, looking wide- eyed and expectant after they've clamped their headsets on and
driver- airframe says softly looking each in...
Forum: ATC Issues
2nd Jun 2005, 04:06
Replies: 1,636
Views: 2,454,482
Posted By jokova

OCH-BLOODY-AI. . .

. . . . hoots ADCAPP, but ye're a quair uncouth lot up there roond the brakes and the bens.

Stand by for the three-holer freighter from the Great South Land on it's way to Prestwick (and...
Forum: ATC Issues
1st Jun 2005, 19:59
Replies: 1,636
Views: 2,454,482
Posted By jokova

CHRIS BRAUND

Apropos of the two dogs engaged - there was once a man of infinite jest , who brought much lightness of heart and levity to the skies, the bars and widely scattered airfields of the Sunburnt...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
31st May 2005, 23:44
Replies: 57
Views: 5,147
Posted By jokova

BUCKLEY'S ?

Applause for 'Pitch and Break'. . . . there speaks a voice of reason and moderation . . . .

. . . . . . but for all that and all that, where will reform come from ? Who can suggest a course...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
29th May 2005, 22:29
Replies: 57
Views: 5,147
Posted By jokova

MAINTAIN THE THREAD

Please Woomera, do not be influenced by sectarian malice and the one-eyed appeal of 'Ultra' to you to apply the gag. As others have just said, this topic is a valuable one for those able to...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
29th May 2005, 06:10
Replies: 23
Views: 4,395
Posted By jokova

THE CAIRNS POST'S . . .

. . . reporting perfection of proctologist's plainly plane purpose.

WHAT ??? !!!

He that designed the aeroplane shirt - lift the tail . . .
. . . . . and see the ...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd May 2005, 23:17
Replies: 233
Views: 104,210
Posted By jokova

Howzat? . . . from Bruce and Bruce. . .

. . . . and Bruce, down here where some battle-scarred Aussie pilots look wistfully at justice's wheels grinding on in Dublin.

The Goss case is no doubt a landmark one in the making. Whatever...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
22nd May 2005, 17:33
Replies: 56
Views: 9,595
Posted By jokova

"Don't clap. . . .

. . . . throw money", was the suggestion I made after fluking the only greaser of the trip, back at Mascot after a twelve day "Bill Peach" charter. On top of that the whole 52 of us on board the...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
21st May 2005, 02:30
Replies: 0
Views: 920
Posted By jokova

Mrs Bill Hobday

Saw Cathy last week and had the troubling news from her of CA for which she is to have surgery without delay. Apart from that spectre, she is her cheerful, positive self.

The address for a note...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
21st May 2005, 02:17
Replies: 10
Views: 16,201
Posted By jokova

First Reg 203 exemption?

Gaunty, on 15th May, posted that he was involved with setting up the first such operation. An historian correct me if wrong, but it was Port Augusta Air Services (PAGAS) with a C402 (VH-BUD?)...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th May 2005, 21:17
Replies: 357
Views: 89,935
Posted By jokova

aarrhh, nurjio. . .

. . . . your topiary skills (see 'profile') should have meant a keen-eyed briefing afore the knife and a neat and proper stitching up to finish off.

Then again you can't always tell who's...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
5th May 2005, 22:15
Replies: 3
Views: 1,306
Posted By jokova

A Wagga Wagga reunion

Planning for this underway for those that have links with the old Forrest Hill.
( If you see this RN please send today's email again about Lane Morrow as the finger prevailled yet again and I lost...
Forum: Interviews, jobs & sponsorship
5th May 2005, 20:25
Replies: 3
Views: 1,004
Posted By jokova

The plaque. .

. . . if that is what you suggest you may as well have, Paddy me dear, then you could well be in sore need of the pointed stick we craft exquisitely in our sheltered workshops, one of which you...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
5th May 2005, 01:37
Replies: 45
Views: 15,595
Posted By jokova

Keith Mullin - EWA

Mention of the C170 calls to mind what Keith told (back in our Frugal-liner days), of taxying Laurie's 170 past Goroka (?)Tower and extracting the long thin thing that was stowed for the express...
Forum: Private Flying
4th May 2005, 21:41
Replies: 17
Views: 1,785
Posted By jokova

Cecil Lewis et al

MLS-12D . . . . excellent quote, Sir. A sublimely gifted writer the late CL to be sure. His lyrical evocations of solo flight (and many other aspects besides),are matched by Phillip Wills "On...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd May 2005, 18:06
Replies: 530
Views: 176,607
Posted By jokova

. . .the best medicine. . .

"He wouldn't tell you your coat's on fire." - relic of pipe smoking days when the briar would absent mindedly be parked in the pocket, still with an ember.

and a corollary - "You wouldn't piss...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
2nd May 2005, 17:43
Replies: 12
Views: 4,472
Posted By jokova

Captain Bill Hobday

Just like the late Les Mikey, ('An Old Aviator'), Bill was that rarity, a man who touched those with half a soul, and by his warmth, his grace, his humility and true sense of mateship lit many a...
Forum: Cabin Crew
2nd May 2005, 16:52
Replies: 7
Views: 1,456
Posted By jokova

'Squirrel Caging' (+ East-West Airlines)

Rotating seniority is a curious concept and although I can think of hypothetical examples where an airline may not have a absolutely 'fixed' list, (though I recall ones that were indeed FIXED!), ...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Apr 2005, 00:35
Replies: 233
Views: 104,210
Posted By jokova

. . . . right on.

zehutiman wants 411 to break out of his closet and say his employer. (Why don't you 'zehutiman'?) You can only gauge the credentials of a poster, unless it's total crap, by reading the tone, and...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
22nd Apr 2005, 02:34
Replies: 19
Views: 6,807
Posted By jokova

VH-SBH

If you put this registration in your s/e search engine you'll see ATSB are sitting on the file, and that, in my opinion is because they are woefully understaffed. Unless the wreckage is scattered...
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