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Forum: Private Flying

4th Jun 2007, 11:50

Replies: 69

Tie-down block falls from light aircraft

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Posted By jlaherty

Lifting Power of Wings

When I first started flying gliders as a kid in Benalla (North East Victoria, Oz) we had an ES52B Kookaburra sitting beside the strip and noticed a willy willy coming across the field in a straight...

Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions

11th Feb 2007, 11:03

Replies: 24

How many aircraft went down in NSW

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Posted By jlaherty

Cirrus down near YHOX

The AC was syndicate owned on line at Whitworth Aviation YSBK. It recently sustained substantial damage in a heavy landing on the nosewheel at YSBK which involved a prop strike. The engine was...

Forum: Rotorheads

17th Dec 2002, 05:00

Replies: 144

What's the longest distance you've flown?

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Posted By jlaherty

German I know once flew from Benalla to...

German I know once flew from Benalla to Tenterfield (1032 klm) in a ASW 20 - that's a glider!

Only landed 'cos he was thirsty!

The retrieve took four days!:D

Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions

10th Dec 2002, 02:19

Replies: 26

CPL misbehaving?

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Posted By jlaherty

Mmmm. Word on the ABC was he was masturbating in...

Mmmm. Word on the ABC was he was masturbating in front of the solo female passenger in the car on the way to the airport and continued once airborne on the charter. Hence the two charges.

You have...

Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)

6th Dec 2002, 01:24

Replies: 31

Loading horror stories

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Posted By jlaherty

Poorly loaded Piper Lance

Around 2000 a Piper Lance departed King Island in Bass Strait with 6 female 0pob. The a/c was observed to take a long take off run and assume a marked nose high attitude on rotation. The a/c...

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