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Post by typerated on Apr 30, 2024 8:54:26 GMT 12
I'd have said Flock Hill looking at the photos - but never flown from Coleridge - didnt know there was a strip there?
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Post by typerated on Mar 25, 2024 20:26:56 GMT 12
Pure comedy - You obviously have never had anything to do with them! Can't think of many worse machines I've come across
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Post by typerated on Feb 17, 2024 17:15:43 GMT 12
The whole thing is completely insane, 7.5% reduction in spending just for shits and giggles (because a correcting government overspend doesn't require massive tax cuts as well), although one does have to note that a significant contribute to this governments election was the multi year foreign disinformation campaigns aimed at the previous government which by extension contributed to the election of the current government. What a deluded statement - cuts needed for 'shits and giggles' And I won't even touch the weird foreign disinformation thing. Your side lost and indeed was thumped because the average Kiwi taxpayer was sick of the endless incompetence, woke hand-wringing drivel, the talentless ministers and the sickly divisive type of apartheid they were attempting to shove down peoples throats. Try educating yourself on the current financial state of play regarding the Govt's books and the mess the new lot have inherited. A 200Bn debt mountain, Govt spending up 84% over 6 years with F-all to show for it. Even the bumbling incompetent G Robertson admitted the present interest alone on the debt was $7BN a year, climbing to $10Bn per annum by next. The number is appalling and is greater than the total Defence and Police budgets combined - and that's just the interest payments!! Try running your own finances this badly & your bank manager would be calling in a mortgagee sale But as usual the few remaining blinkered far left supporters won't accept this Accept that the country is on the bones of its arse and sadly Defence like other Ministry's will need to trim back-end costs to shore up the front line services. 2024 /25 won't be easy years thanks to the morons in charge previously but hey, give her a Damehood and hope she never returns to our fair shores. comedy post....dream on.....
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Post by typerated on Feb 17, 2024 10:58:05 GMT 12
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Post by typerated on Jan 28, 2024 18:54:28 GMT 12
It was the same in the UK - cuts always came with a Conservative government - But people thought the opposite would be true! Never learned
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Post by typerated on Jan 28, 2024 18:51:46 GMT 12
Defence is up for 7.5% cuts - I'm sure there were some less than clever people who thought National might be good for defence!
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Post by typerated on Jan 3, 2024 12:57:23 GMT 12
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Post by typerated on Dec 20, 2023 20:49:15 GMT 12
I absolutely endorse the excruciating loudness of the BAC 1-11. I was doing some work on a Queenair at Sydney airport in 1979 when a RAAF BAC 1-11 taxied out right close to us and then took off. The greatest noise to size ratio I have encountered in an aircraft. I think the reporter meant to put BAC 146; that would have fitted the bill. yes - apart from the 146 didn't exist then - didnt fly till the 80s
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Post by typerated on Dec 20, 2023 9:51:21 GMT 12
The first ever Airbus to visit New Zealand. From the Press, 24 May 1974. EUROPEAN AIRBUS ON TOUR SELLING POINTS He said that selling points in New Zealand were that the Airbus seated at least 250 passengers, could carry a 15-ton cargo payload in 20 standard containers — the only twin-engined jet to do so — was far less noisy than most other jets except the DC10 and the B.A.C. 1-11, used less fuel than any other large plane, and required a shorter runway than any other aircraft of comparable size. Made me laugh that it essentially states the BAC-111 is quiet ! What! It was painful even with Hush kits. Even the damn APU is noisier just about anything made by man apart from MAYBE a Saturn 5 on lift off - but only maybe....
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Post by typerated on Nov 29, 2023 16:46:58 GMT 12
Lancaster Skies was terrible. I switched off partway into it. This looks worse. It does look poor - but still better than the US B-17 Band of Brothers nonsense
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Post by typerated on Nov 17, 2023 20:51:17 GMT 12
Here’s something for those unimpressed by what we’ve seen so far: an 8.5min review examining the historical accuracy of a 2min teaser. I’m sure faults will be found with this, too. Does not scratch the surface on how inaccurate ( and painful) it is. It's such as shame as it flies in the face of everything that has been done at the Thorpes Abbot /100th BW museum and how dare they use the beautiful Sally B in such a poor way - hope the paid well for the privilege.
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Post by typerated on Nov 13, 2023 20:13:19 GMT 12
The trailer is appalling. Zero realism and maximum Hollywood over hype. Perfect for a Sci Fi movie but I find it hard to imagine that everyone can't see that this is in no way realistic. It seems US audiences have no attention span and only respond to hyper over dramatisation - painful... I certainly wont be wasting my time with it.
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Post by typerated on Oct 26, 2023 12:21:49 GMT 12
Narrative: The pilot was on his second solo flight in the glider and was being winch launched, when shortly after becoming airborne the glider veered to the right of the runway centreline at a very high nose up attitude. Shortly thereafter, the towline back released and the glider immediately entered a spin to the right which was not recovered in the height available. The aircraft struck the ground a short distance from the airfield and the pilot received serious injuries.The glider got too nose high on the winch so the automatic back release functioned, leaving the glider nose high with little airspeed. Stall, spin, impact. Not necessarily in that order! I stalled on the wire - but the cable didn't back release and I recovered and continued with the launch. That said the PW-5 was favorite for back releasing early . But the point is you stall because the wing is at too high a AoA. And the PW-5 design made it very easy to over rotate.
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Post by typerated on Oct 13, 2023 12:13:49 GMT 12
Might be a long shot but this PW-5 span on the winch and crashed - then written off. The pilot was on a early solo and if I remember correctly broke both ankles but was lucky to be alive.
I used to have some dramatic photo's of the crash but they vanished after a PC died - just wondered if anyone still had any photos of the crash?
I almost did the same thing in a PW-5 at Drury the year before (although I think it was in the other one - GXF) - the winch hook was too near the C 0f G and I think was moved on a later AD.
I'm trying to put something together on glider crashes and lessons learned. We used to joke there was more chance dying in the Auckland traffic than in a glider - but NZ has had a pretty ruff toll over the last couple of decades.
i"d probably be interested in any glider crash photos from NZ
Cheers TR
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Post by typerated on May 27, 2023 15:49:37 GMT 12
MIQ was a crappy stick - but gone now.
Low pay - well almost all government employees can claim low pay with justification - Doctors, Nurses, Teachers, Prison Officers etc etc. There is only so much money in the pot - you can spend less on gear and more on pay of course. Maybe I have missed people complaining on the forum about buying new aircraft and saying the money should go into pay?
You can rob from other departments of course - but Health, Education, Social Welfare, Pensions and Prisons are all under funded. Defence is not special here.
The other option is to pay more tax! I imagine many of the people who complain about lack of money into defence are not tax payers.
It might surprise some but most western militaries are facing the same issues - this is not an NZ thing - the pressures they face are the same. To think it is the NZ government at fault is naïve.
Also I imagine most here have never had to do any form of a department budget. Easy to be a whinger if you don't have to face the consequence of your actions and complete the circle.
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Post by typerated on May 27, 2023 15:13:05 GMT 12
What government handling and policy is causing the problem exactly?
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Post by typerated on May 9, 2023 22:17:49 GMT 12
. Our little aviation industry is not going to harm the frigging planet. Yes it does harm the planet (well atmosphere) - all CO2 output is adding to the warmth - there might be easier wins on reducing C02 though
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Post by typerated on May 9, 2023 22:15:38 GMT 12
Meanwhile with global warming supposedly rising at an alarming rate temperatures in Sydney this week have been up to 8 degrees below the monthly average! and you win the most stupid comment of the week - well done! There is a hint though - 'global' - lots of places are lots warmer
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Post by typerated on Mar 3, 2023 11:06:57 GMT 12
I'm 50:50 whether to go. Hoping a few good participation announcements will twist my hand!
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Post by typerated on Feb 24, 2023 16:57:21 GMT 12
Just not formally announced yet, they spread them out. Spread out the announcements certainly are Errol!
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