Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

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A bit of trivial & useless information.
Usually my D2 drives from Doomadgee to Cloncurry then back.
It then gets parked up at the back of my house for 3,4,5 or more weeks without moving before the next trip.
I have noticed that during the Wet season rust forms on the brake discs within a few days, raining or not.
During the Dry season it takes weeks for the rust to form.
I hope that is trivial & useless enough!
Jonesfam

In 1934, CWA Scott took the controls of a DH88 aircraft, (with Tom Black as relief pilot) taking off to fly to Melbourne, in the MacRobertson air race, arriving in 71 hrs.

A couple of interesting bits of trivia.

While Scott was an experienced pilot, and had flown the route previously, the plane he was to fly was only finished building the day before they had to be at the starting point. Their new DH88 had only flown just over an hour by a DeHavilland test pilot. That day Scott flew a circuit before flying to the departure point at Mildenhall the next day.

He had never flown a twin, nor a retractable, nor a plane with variable pitch props, nor one with anything like this plane's wing loading. And his departure was both his and the plane's first full load takeoff.

The flight was relatively uneventful, except that most of the flight from Dili to Melbourne was with reduced power on the port engine, which had low oil pressure (later attributed to a faulty gauge). It was effectively used only for takeoffs. No fault could be found in Darwin, but they nursed the engine for the rest of the trip. This resulted in severe leg pains, as there was no rudder trim.

They won the race, or at least the elapsed time. Second was a KLM DC-2 operating as a proving flight for a commercial service, with passengers, twenty hours later, after an unscheduled landing at Albury. This aircraft won the handicap prize, which would also have been won by the DH88, except the rules said that no plane could win both prizes. A second DH88 arrived 37hrs after Scott and Black.

The third DH88 in the race, flown by the Mollisons, got lost after takeoff from Karachi, had to land at Jubulpur for fuel, could not get aviation fuel, so filled up with motor spirit, and flew on to Allahabad. By the time they landed there both engines were unserviceable.

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

In 1934, CWA Scott took the controls of a DH88 aircraft, (with Tom Black as relief pilot) taking off to fly to Melbourne, in the MacRobertson air race, arriving in 71 hrs.

A couple of interesting bits of trivia.

While Scott was an experienced pilot, and had flown the route previously, the plane he was to fly was only finished building the day before they had to be at the starting point. Their new DH88 had only flown just over an hour by a DeHavilland test pilot. That day Scott flew a circuit before flying to the departure point at Mildenhall the next day.

He had never flown a twin, nor a retractable, nor a plane with variable pitch props, nor one with anything like this plane's wing loading. And his departure was both his and the plane's first full load takeoff.

The flight was relatively uneventful, except that most of the flight from Dili to Melbourne was with reduced power on the port engine, which had low oil pressure (later attributed to a faulty gauge). It was effectively used only for takeoffs. No fault could be found in Darwin, but they nursed the engine for the rest of the trip. This resulted in severe leg pains, as there was no rudder trim.

They won the race, or at least the elapsed time. Second was a KLM DC-2 operating as a proving flight for a commercial service, with passengers, twenty hours later, after an unscheduled landing at Albury. This aircraft won the handicap prize, which would also have been won by the DH88, except the rules said that no plane could win both prizes. A second DH88 arrived 37hrs after Scott and Black.

The third DH88 in the race, flown by the Mollisons, got lost after takeoff from Karachi, had to land at Jubulpur for fuel, could not get aviation fuel, so filled up with motor spirit, and flew on to Allahabad. By the time they landed there both engines were unserviceable.

That is very interesting but not trivial imho.
. Initially I wondered when first reading your post, whether Scott was the "Scotty", introduced to pax by a 747 Captain via the PA system on the way to the UK about '77 who it was said was on that flight..
But reading on + Google, your one took his own life in Germany using his Army Revolver in 1946 so obviously not the same Scott.


My Scottie was was also an aviator presumably flying for QANTAS back then.

Apparently your Scottie was of "a highly strung nature".

Now that is trivia. Possibly.

Originally Posted by 4bee

That is interesting but not trivial imho
. Initially I wondered when first reading your post, whether Scott was the "Scotty", introduced to pax by a 747 CaptainVIA the PA system on the way to the UK about '77 who it was said was on that flight.. But reading on + Google, he took his own life in Germany using his Army Revolver in 1946 so obviously not the same Scott.

Apparently your Scotty was of "a highly strung nature". The DH88 was a smart looking aircraft, almost before it's time I thought.

Now that is trivia. Possibly.

Here is a bit more fyI.

About 1948 a body was discovered on Somerton Beach near the Crippled Children's Home in Adelaide. Was given the name of "Somerton Man" since then. Quite mysterious, labels had been removed, hair anylised & a whole lot of Mysterious goings on & to this date has never been ID'd. Real MI-5 stuff of the forties.

Anyway, reading through a lot o this guff today I came across this little doosy observed by a Professor of Anatomy which gave me a bit of a chuckle.

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other human invention in history…with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.”

I thought this was very apt.


Seemed to be also connected to a child's body found in sand hills in a hessian bag near Outer Harbour at the time?????


Both made the News & Papers of the day & still no connection has been found to the Body on the Beach AFAIK

Some claim he was Miner some a Foreign Agent & some, many other things.

If by some mere chance you would like to know more Google Somerton Beach Man.

Tamam Shud case - Wikipedia


Trivial? Yep.

really NOT

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Originally Posted by NavyDiver

really NOT

"Julie Bushnell said she felt ashamed and embarrassed after falling for a Bitcoin fraud that cost her £9,000.
It used the name of entrepreneur Elon Musk and a story on a fake BBC website suggesting she could double her money in a giveaway of the cryptocurrency.

The Brighton teacher said: "I think about it every minute of every day."

Ms Bushnell, an investor in cryptocurrency, spotted an item on a website that appeared to use BBC News branding, claiming Mr Musk, the billionaire boss of the Tesla car firm, would pay back double the sum of any Bitcoin deposit.

She paid £9,000, which she had saved for a deposit on a new home. When no reciprocal payment arrived it dawned on her that she had become the victim of a scam." Victim of '''Elon Musk''' Bitcoin scam loses home deposit - BBC News

I have to say wow- she should be embarrassed to think anyone no mater who asking for 9,000 pounds is legitimate Noting I think all cypto currency is a scam! Possibly as I did on buy on or two for a few cents years ago now they are "allegedly" worth $65,310.46

Oh Bugger! I saw that & now I've lost my Life's saving , my house, my car. Are you suggesting Musk didn't cough?


You did well with your two cents worth J1.