Thread: Pictures ! Anything goes, it is the camera corner after all !!

I didn't think they burned sugar cane any more seeing it is mechanised harvesting.

Snapped on a recent tour of Yorkshire (UK) area.
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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Avro plane at the Bert Hinkler Museum in Bundaberg. Excellent museum.
Amusing that our Defender has a higher cruising speed than Hinkler's plane.

That plane doesn't look right. The engine is all wrong. I have a photo I took of Hinkler's plane at the Qld Museum in about 1968. I'm sure the engine is different. I'll hunt the slide out.

EDIT: Aha! It's not the plane he flew from the UK, it's one he flew from Sydney to Bundy.

See also Bert Hinkler & Avro Avian G-EBOV

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Snapped this sugarcane fire driving back to Bargara. Not a great pic, but real.

My cousin Meg lives in Barbara.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

My cousin Meg lives in Barbara.

As in Santa Barbara?

Originally Posted by p38arover

That plane doesn't look right. The engine is all wrong. I have a photo I took of Hinkler's plane at the Qld Museum in about 1968. I'm sure the engine is different. I'll hunt the slide out.

EDIT: Aha! It's not the plane he flew from the UK, it's one he flew from Sydney to Bundy.

See also Bert Hinkler & Avro Avian G-EBOV

Yes, they have his other plane from the Queensland Museum on display too.

Originally Posted by jx2mad

I didn't think they burned sugar cane any more seeing it is mechanised harvesting.

I read about 10 percent of Bundy growers still burn. Most till it in instead.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Yes, they have his other plane from the Queensland Museum on display too.

The first picture is of his Avro Baby, with a watercooled Green engine. The other is his Avro Avian, with an aircooled ADC Cirrus engine. The Cirrus engine used parts from a WW1 Renault V8 engine to build a four cylinder engine, and was effectively an ancestor of the DH Gipsy (DH Moth) and Gipsy Major (DH Tiger Moth, DHC Chipmunk, DHA Drover and many others) engines, and through them, of the Gipsy Six (DH Dragon Rapide, DH86, Dove, etc) and Gipsy Twelve (DH Albatross).