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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #275 on: April 10, 2022, 06:37:40 AM »
GUs are agricultural but I don't mind that. My td42t trol doesn't do much these days. A holiday car and workhorse only.
Any trol is thirsty.

Good luck with whatever it is you decide.
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #276 on: April 14, 2022, 06:03:12 PM »
What made me smile?
My FB feed popped up with memories of the 2017 National Meet  The Vic High Country.
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #277 on: April 14, 2022, 06:15:19 PM »
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What made me smile?
My FB feed popped up with memories of the 2017 National Meet  The Vic High Country.
Thank you Swaggers.




might be up there next weekend... come along :D :P
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #278 on: April 14, 2022, 06:20:39 PM »
Quote from: Bird on April 14, 2022, 06:15:19 PM
might be up there next weekend... come along :D
No worries mate, an over nighter ;)
Enjoy it mate.
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #279 on: April 14, 2022, 08:11:51 PM »
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No worries mate, an over nighter ;)
Enjoy it mate.
You can do it.... believe in yourself :P Or Mandrakes Beers and BullShit session
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #280 on: April 15, 2022, 10:14:35 PM »
Have an old mate from the start of my cycling days that I asked me if I could help him with training. I told him at the start that I will get him moving quicker but if he didn't do as I asked, that I'd wipe him like a dirty arse, mate or no mate. He said yet, I understand.

Well this week the Masters Nationals were on in Brisbane and he got three medals and that right there, is what put a smile on my face.  :cheers:

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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #281 on: April 18, 2022, 06:05:20 PM »
The Traffic jams from every direction into Melbourne from holidays... I learned years ago not to go away long weekends

Then a woman busted last night 250kph! WTF?
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #282 on: April 18, 2022, 06:38:13 PM »
Quote from: Bird on April 18, 2022, 06:05:20 PM
The Traffic jams from every direction into Melbourne from holidays... I learned years ago not to go away long weekends

Then a woman busted last night 250kph! WTF?
Mate, see my post in the Random thread.
I don't get it either.
Even tho the M1 between Ballina & Coffs has been completed it's still a sh1te fight.
Al, Coffs would be at a stop?
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #283 on: April 18, 2022, 07:05:10 PM »
Smiles? you bet  ;D

Just arrived home from a 6 day relaxing camping trip at Levuka.

Cold beers, warm camp fires and really good people to share it with.  :cup:


Cheers to all who attended.  8)

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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #284 on: April 18, 2022, 07:46:16 PM »
Quote from: Bird on April 18, 2022, 06:05:20 PM
The Traffic jams from every direction into Melbourne from holidays... I learned years ago not to go away long weekends

That was us....

Heading home from Hopetoun via Shepparton....off the GV Hwy, onto the Hume at Seymour, and stopped dead.
Couldn't see a reason for it, but it mostly sorted itself.
Wasn't as bad as it could have been, but still added about an hour to the run from Shepp.

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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #285 on: April 19, 2022, 09:20:38 PM »
Quote from: Hairs on April 18, 2022, 06:38:13 PM
Mate, see my post in the Random thread.
I don't get it either.
Even tho the M1 between Ballina & Coffs has been completed it's still a sh1te fight.
Al, Coffs would be at a stop?

Yep took the long way around to get into town a lot quicker then the highway.   Made the mistake today and three green lights to travel 100 meters.  Very poor town planning regarding driving through or around town.  Happens when the Highway is the spine you build everything off with no interconnecting roads between. 
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #286 on: April 20, 2022, 09:32:53 AM »
One for Sydney Plane buffs... awesome that these old birds are still flying and maintained...  :cup: :cup:

The flypast is being stated by the Historic Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) and will feature Tracker, Dakota, Caribou and Catalina.

It will be the largest ANZAC overflight ever staged from the HARS Aviation Museum which is based at Shellhabour Regional Airport.

Taking off from 9.30 am the Dakota, Caribou and Tracker will fly north along the coast to overfly Cronulla beach shortly before 10 am on ANZAC Day.

The aircraft will continue their line astern formation to fly over Goldstein Reserve at Coogee at 10 am at the conclusion of the ANZAC march by Coogee, Randwick and Clovelly RSL members. Sydney City

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A separate flypast of Orion, Mustang, Harvard and Iroquois will fly over Wollongong, Kiama and Kangaroo Valley.

Other warbirds of note in the HARS display include a former RAAF supersonic F-111C, three 1960s Neptune maritime patrol aircraft, a Catalina, a Winjeel, additional Dakotas, a former RAN Wessex helicopter, Vampire and Sea Venom jets plus airliners including "Connie" the former Lockheed Super Constellation and the only Boing 747-400 remaining in Australia.



https://www.theleader.com.au/story/7704316/cronulla-to-witness-flypast-of-historic-aircraft-as-a-salute-to-anzac-day-services/?cs=1507
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #287 on: April 20, 2022, 09:45:46 AM »
That would be way cool to see. I remember as a a kid watching some Caribou taking off from a park somewhere near Gladstone once.They just seemed to walk along and then pop up into the air.
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #288 on: April 20, 2022, 12:39:41 PM »
Spent a few hours in those, even jumped out of a few of them
Great photo  :cheers: :cheers:
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #289 on: April 20, 2022, 02:38:40 PM »
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Spent a few hours in those, even jumped out of a few of them

I've never understood jumping out of a plane thats going to land...  ??? ;D ;D ???
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #290 on: April 20, 2022, 04:06:25 PM »
Quote from: Bird on April 20, 2022, 02:38:40 PM
I've never understood jumping out of a plane thats going to land...  ??? ;D ;D ???

Haven’t you seen how some of those pilots land 😂😂
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #291 on: April 20, 2022, 08:42:27 PM »
Hi,
   I've seen one land across the strip at Laverton.
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"Bloody short strip Captain."
"Yep, but it seems excessively wide."

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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #292 on: April 20, 2022, 09:13:32 PM »
Quote from: austastar on April 20, 2022, 08:42:27 PM
Hi,
   I've seen one land across the strip at Laverton.

Must have been a while ago....
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #293 on: April 20, 2022, 10:11:46 PM »
Would love to fly in a Bou again ..   Even with " Spike " doing the O'l [ can of two fruits ] spooning out eating of the " Just been sick  ;)"  soldier next to him's   airsick bag contents, and saying " I like it hot " routine ..
Blokes  up and down both sides of the aircraft were puking into their bush hats ...  The load master was pissed off and  wanted to throw Spike out over the ramp . ;D ;D .
Miss you Mr Connolly " Spike " ..   ;D    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T4bTUX-iVc
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #294 on: April 21, 2022, 10:47:06 AM »
Quote from: GeoffA on April 20, 2022, 09:13:32 PM
Must have been a while ago....
Hi,
   Laverton air show 1964, I was 18 at the time.
Never got to fly in one though.
I have flown in an RAF Twin Pioneer, an aircraft with similar capabilities of using very short strips. I was photographing evidence of the accuracy of jungle supply drops because the troops were not happy with them. Great fun, sitting in the doorway, legs in the air on the end of a monkey strap trying to wrangle a Linhof 5x4 in the slipstream.
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #295 on: April 21, 2022, 11:04:34 AM »
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trying to wrangle a Linhof 5x4 in the slipstream.
one of these?
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/31444-USA/Linhof_000054_4x5_Master_Technika_Classic.html
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #296 on: April 21, 2022, 12:42:08 PM »
Quote from: austastar on April 21, 2022, 10:47:06 AM
Hi,
   
 Twin Pioneer, an aircraft with similar capabilities of using very short strips.
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 ;D ;D  Went in one at a Coolangatta Airshow in the eighties ..Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer ..
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #297 on: April 21, 2022, 01:24:33 PM »
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one of these?
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/31444-USA/Linhof_000054_4x5_Master_Technika_Classic.html
Hi,
    Yep. The double sided film holder dark slides kept trying to escape in the wind. Really, for the purpose of the exercise, my own 35mm camera would have been so much more efficient .
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #298 on: April 21, 2022, 04:21:08 PM »
Quote from: edz on April 20, 2022, 10:11:46 PM
Would love to fly in a Bou again ..   Even with " Spike " doing the O'l [ can of two fruits ] spooning out eating of the " Just been sick  ;)"  soldier next to him's   airsick bag contents, and saying " I like it hot " routine ..
Blokes  up and down both sides of the aircraft were puking into their bush hats ...  The load master was pissed off and  wanted to throw Spike out over the ramp . ;D ;D .
Miss you Mr Connolly " Spike " ..   ;D    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T4bTUX-iVc

Only for a very short flight though.. The webbing seating gets a bit hard on the bum after a couple of hours... :-[
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Re: What Made You Smile - 2022
« Reply #299 on: April 22, 2022, 11:01:18 AM »
Ever wanted to know what its like to drive a Stadium super truck  [Trophy Truck ]... Signe me up  anyday .. ;D ;D 
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