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Post by Bruce on Jan 29, 2020 8:05:23 GMT 12
its the Photobucket ransom demand - pay or get your images blurred... Its up the PB account holder to pay (and something I'm not intending to do for my pics...)
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Post by Bruce on Jan 24, 2020 15:28:22 GMT 12
I've been enjoying following the build of Scrappy. You often have traditional techniques being described as "Craftsmanship" but what mike can do with Carbon fibre totally fits that description as well. I've learnt so much about how that material is used. Hes a long way from your "Normal" homebuilder however (if there is such a thing...) I dont know of too many homebuilders in my patch who buy their spouse a carbon Cub for a birthday present, then themselves a Wilga for Christmas at the same time as building something from carbon!... Back to work!
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Post by Bruce on Jan 21, 2020 8:10:07 GMT 12
Just waiting for the Pearse fanatics to chip in...
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Post by Bruce on Jan 2, 2020 21:13:05 GMT 12
But Ashburton only got that Canberra in the early 2000s....
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Post by Bruce on Dec 19, 2019 15:44:40 GMT 12
According to Wikipedia, its an RAF / RCAF lend lease designation: Expeditor 3TM transport with fittings so it could be converted to a navigation trainer - 44 built
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Post by Bruce on Dec 10, 2019 8:58:31 GMT 12
Five confirmed dead so far Bloody awful. This would have to be the first fatal eruption in New Zealand history in a very long time, right? Would Tangiwhai in 1953 have been the last one? In 2006 a DOC worker was killed in a volcanic eruption on Raoul Island, in the Kermadecs (NZ territory, on the same volcanic chain as White Island).
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Post by Bruce on Dec 9, 2019 21:36:00 GMT 12
The Irony is that only this morning, a University of Canterbury Professor specialising in disaster risk assessment was saying Kiwis tended to overlook the risk of volcanic eruption...
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Post by Bruce on Dec 6, 2019 8:28:17 GMT 12
Thats going to be tough for the Walsh School in February... One thing that could be considered is to switch the circuits to the opposite side of the airfield (North Eastern) which will get it away from the township. Problem is Gliders generally use that circuit (its easier for them to reach it from the Kaimai ridge) and the circuits have traditionally been split. I'm sure that with appropriate traffic awareness powered aircraft and gliders could share the same circuit...
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Post by Bruce on Oct 29, 2019 10:22:50 GMT 12
Looks like somewhere captain Kirk, Spock and Scotty would be seen. Does it have "Swish Swish" doors?
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Post by Bruce on Oct 27, 2019 14:26:57 GMT 12
Red Blue and Yellow are South Korean national colours
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Post by Bruce on Oct 23, 2019 17:58:27 GMT 12
One question I have about this film is there's a chunk missing at the top of the frame and seems to be a constant tear all the way through. How does this happen? I cannot fathom how a tear at the top of the film is constant throughout the whole clip. Any ideas? Its likely to be dust or lint hanging on the film gate in the projector - or the camera.
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Post by Bruce on Oct 14, 2019 16:00:41 GMT 12
Its not an F4U canopy - its FG-1
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Post by Bruce on Aug 3, 2019 22:12:12 GMT 12
They don't even have barriers on the crowdline! there is a line of paint, which absolutely no-one puts so much as a toe across. If you sit with your foot over the line, the people around you in the crowd will point this out to you. Theres this unspoken enforcement of the principle. Likewise, you never see litter or FOD anywhere. Its a remarkable event!
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Post by Bruce on Jul 19, 2019 18:12:20 GMT 12
Its not entirely accurate... Radar was being developed in the 1930s, when there were still Zeppelins hanging around. The Graf Zeppelin II did the recon flight in 1939 and picked up the transmissions but the significance was missed during the interpretation of the results. Chain home used a frequency of 50hz - the same as British AC domestic electrical supply, so the signal was simply considered to be interference from the mains. As it was, Chain Home was using the standardised frequency specifically to synchronise the different stations, the National Grid having particularly good nationwide frequency control at the time. The frequency shift off that standard of each return from several stations was used to triangulate the aircraft position - the original Chain Home High being non-directional.
A great book on the subject is "Under the Radar" by Sandra Coney, which is the story of the Piha Radar station. According to the book, the DSIR was responsible for a number of significant improvements to radar technology (including the single transmitter / receiver antenna), which were passed to the UK. In many respects the NZ made sets were considered superior to the British ones. It is also worth noting that as an offshoot of the NZ Radar work, a number of significant discoveries in the science of radio astronomy came about. Elizabeth Alexander, a Physicist working for the Wellington Radio development Laboratory, using observations from the Piha and Norfolk Island radar stations, first noted that the sun (and indeed other stars) was a source of radio waves. The Piha Site was also used for pioneering research by Australian radio Astronomers in 1948, which identified the first pulsars.
We were surprisingly advanced in that field for a number of years.
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Post by Bruce on Jul 5, 2019 12:46:04 GMT 12
I would add the C172 and Hughes 500 to my original 4 then...
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Post by Bruce on Jul 4, 2019 13:46:34 GMT 12
Shorts S30 Empire Flying Boat - connected NZ to the rest of the world by air DH Tiger Moth - Civil and military trainer and topdresser - at one stage every pilot in NZ would have flown one Douglas DC-3 / C47 - a true multi role workhorse Fletcher Fu24-950 - A Kiwi workhorse.
Limiting to 4 is a little unfair as I had to skip machines like: Walsh Brothers Farman Wright (as it started everything...) Avro 504K DH60 Moth Fred North's Tui special P40 Kittyhawk DH Vampire DH Fox Moth Boeing 737 Douglas DC-8 Skyhawk C130 Hercules P3 Orion UH1 Iroquois Hughes 500 Cessna 172 etc....
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Post by Bruce on Jul 2, 2019 18:50:40 GMT 12
I saw recently a suggestion that the name Wellington may have been in part due to the New Zealand order, any one know if this is true Its not entirely improbable - the Canberra was named in expectation of an Australian order.
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Post by Bruce on Jul 1, 2019 21:19:51 GMT 12
We have some bulldozers somewhere we could convert to tanks... its an idea someone had before!
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Post by Bruce on Jun 12, 2019 19:07:48 GMT 12
NH90s can self-deploy to most places in the Pacific if required, but generally Canterbury can carry them - and there will be a second sealift vessel eventually as well. The C130 is the "low risk - Low cost" option, its not a huge capability gain but at least its affordable, and will improve reliability and operating costs. I'm a bit disappointed the A400 wasnt chosen, but getting approval for those was always going to be a struggle (medium risk - High cost). A400 is still a chance with the strategic air lift programme I Hope so!
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Post by Bruce on Jun 12, 2019 10:51:13 GMT 12
NH90s can self-deploy to most places in the Pacific if required, but generally Canterbury can carry them - and there will be a second sealift vessel eventually as well. The C130 is the "low risk - Low cost" option, its not a huge capability gain but at least its affordable, and will improve reliability and operating costs. I'm a bit disappointed the A400 wasnt chosen, but getting approval for those was always going to be a struggle (medium risk - High cost).
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