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  1. 24th August 2014, 07:47 AM #81
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ausfree View Post
    Well, you learn something new every day. I thought the DC3 was pensioned off years ago.
    Most of them have been. The death knell of the DC3 was the Vietnam War. They were used there so heavily that the stockpile of spare parts (especially engines and engine parts) left over from WW2 was so depleted that they were no longer cheap to maintain. Then fuel prices started to skyrocket, and their energy efficiency started to tell against them.

    Interestingly, one of the features that contributed most to their longevity was unintended - the alloy used in their structure seems to be virtually immune to fatigue, something that was not even thought about when they were designed.

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    ooh, this takes me back a bit,
    I helped steal this aircraft from its cage and get it back to its majority shareholder.
    stiff, I didn't really say that.


    but it was lifted over the fence and put into a safer place....


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    Nikon D300s, Nikon 70-300VR @ 300mm from our back yard







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    Matt Hall in action over Sandown:






    And the right wing of a Virgin Embraer-190... Going home.
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    Caribou - my ride home from Wentworth in 1975



    Concorde - On the Qantas apron around 1984/5


    Concorde - Flight deck



    On its way from rwy 16 @ S(KS)A


    Spit and Mustang at Bankstown ~ 1987ish


    Harrier @ Bankstown ~ 1987


    Seaking on the deck at Sandy Point 1994, I flew in it earlier - lousy for fire obs


    Air France Concorde - the frogs wouldn't let us near it (unlike BA a couple of years earlier)



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  5. 26th January 2015, 05:07 AM #85
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    Not taken by me. Shot was taken by the last photographer that disembarked the PC-6 I was flying. On my way back to the apron to pick up a fresh load of jumpers.
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  6. 26th January 2015, 11:13 AM #86
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    Pliatus PC9/A of the RAAF. I only used to get to fly in the ones with poorly PT6A-62 engines. This one was suffering power roll backs during zero G bunt maneuvers.



    After finding no faults this time, a quick blast around Rottnest Island was always fun:

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  7. 27th January 2015, 11:57 AM #87
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    Quote Originally Posted by AV8R View Post
    On my way back to the apron to pick up a fresh load of jumpers.
    Yes I gets cold up there.....
    It's not broken. It's "Carbon Neutral".


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    Quote Originally Posted by Avion8 View Post
    ..........
    leaks more oil than all my LRs
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  9. 27th January 2015, 06:01 PM #89
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    Mainly hydraulic oil, our little PT6A's hardly leaked at all. You should have seen the patch where the two Caribous were parked, from 2000 ft you could see a clear outline of them whether they were there or not!
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    I have been trying for 5 years or so to get a picture of any aircraft flying across the moon during our early morning walk & got the closest this morning with a Maroomba Airlines DHC Dash8 flying over the moon. I will nail it one day?

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