Here Bern The vid of him speaking is at the bottom of the link https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1790621943311315029
Open Thread – Weekend 28 Aug 2021
Nick Reich is from the Students for Palestine group, and said he was among the students who were asked to…
Not sure if that link is kosher JC.
Kevin, I am a Protestant Christian, as I think Roger and BoN and some other Cats are. I would highly…
Vivek is beyond good. Truly incredible speech. https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1790419793662595261/video/1
Along with my mothers stories of growing up despite Communists & Nazis trying to kill her family off like they did her friends & neighbours, was a take on that of Joseph & His Coat of Many Colours; poor people, poor country, little to feed them even outside the long snowed in winters, it was the tradition to take the old men out into the forest & leave them with a coat (made up of what scraps they could put together), to go to sleep in …
… then one day the old man stopped his son & bid him to wait, as the old man tore the coat in half and offered his son one half, “Keep this for when it’s your turn and you may be warm enough to live” … and the son wrapped his father up in the scraps & his own coat & brought him back home, after which, those people never again sent their old people out to die.
Now lets jump to today, when food & all needs for all people are plentiful (if we care not to rob the producers & distributers), and yet we still have people such as (sadly, the list is too long), those who ARGUE FOR The RIGHT of Inhuman Bodies such as The NHS & MEDICARE, to deny people the medical treatment they choose, condemning them to those Inhuman Body’s DEATH PANELS.
I like the thought Roger but most people are idiots. 😛
srr says:
August 31, 2021 at 4:07 pm
Thanks for this, it’s always good to have another mob to name when online propagandists try to mock away the fact of Govt Propaganda Units –
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2021/08/28/open-thread-weekend-28-aug-2021/comment-page-7/#comment-7223
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From Nilk’s Cat – “Perfidious Albino — Today at 14:46
Interesting. The VIC Nudge team did a project for Brett Sutton on improving take up of the HPV vaccine – essentially getting schools to share student names and parent contact info so they can be ‘nudged’. Also notes that the Vic unit works closely with the UK team (presumably the one based in Sydney) and a behavioural unit at Monash uni.”
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My daughter rang me from Uni when they first started pushing the HPV, especially to those young adults who were residents, immersed in the Pro-HPV propaganda & away from their families.
It was the sleazy way they were pushing it that made her baulk & not have it.
Again she’s been glad she did, as yet again she didn’t suffer any of the fresh new health hells her contemporaries have.
How long before the invigilators the Andrews-Setka-Fiona Patten Stalinist pervert thuggocracy has placed in schools decree that virginity is a notifiable disease?
The Grand Final public holiday is still going ahead in Melbourne.
Point proven.
These two comments summarise ot neatly.
Crew will bw expendable.
They will pillage spares off already U/S aircraft to keep others flying.
They probably won’t give a rat’s about fancy avionics if they give up.
They will still wreak havoc on recalcitrants even with limited capability and no effective countermeasures.
But you didn’t get banned for that, did you?
Care to explain that one?
Here’s hoping they have lowjacks in all those hummvees.
Wait till they’re moving about a bit, then drop a random JDAM equipped bomb on the bastards.
One a month should do it.
If so, those who purport to represent them deserve more exposure to them.
It’s only fair.
It’s strange to think that those of Penny Wong’s ilk have taken away from the election of Donald Trump and Brexit and any other expression of popular desire for the people of a nation to retain some control over their destiny in the face of the rise of the CCP and global government is: Not to wonder how the can retain some shred of the appearance of support for national pride, but to go the utter opposite direction and openly embrace the destruction of the last vestiges of nationhood.
One can only think that they imagine we are on the cusp of their long time, century long, dream of the communist international. Global Marxist government led by China and enforced by social control and technologically enhanced surveillance.
Top Ender at 4:17.
I didn’t envisage the ISIS Special K using the full suite of weapons and munitions.
I am visually a couple of turrets welded to the door openings of a Blackhawk.
That is enough to frighten the shit out of a village full of recalcitrant goat herders.
Remember.
The word “Taliban” simply means “student”.
Or, in some dialects, “young and naive”.
Perhaps Roger…
Ben Eltham has just leaked Craig Kelly’s mobile phone on twitter… don’t think that’s very moral…
Remember.
The word “Taliban” simply means “student”.
Or, in some dialects, “young and naive”.
And in the modern idiom: goat-shagging, in-bred complete bastards.
Not really.
The only Leftists who develop intellectually and spiritually move on to become conservatives of one type or another.
Leftism is an intellectual and moral dead end where second and third rate minds rattle about like empty soft drink cans on a bare, windy day in a suburban cul de sac.
JC
And we’ve essentially banned smoking – even outside.
Switch to Mary Jane, you will be OK smoking anywhere!
And they defeated the USA.
And they defeated the USA.
The parasites living at the heart of the US, and every other Western nation, did the defeating. That’s the real tragedy and crime.
*empty soft drink cans in the gutter on a bare, windy day in a suburban cul de sac
I dunno Sancho. I reckon the Taliban will have quite a bit of a problem getting helos off the ground, let alone being good at low level tactical stuff.
And even if they do manage it, then probably not smart enough to do essential preventative maintenance to keep them flying.
Plus will ignore pilot/aircrew rules….”no, you can’t have a 12 hour break” and so on. “Allahu Akbar” won’t cut it when the machine goes into auto-rotation at 500 feet.
China has taken two giant steps backwards from that goal.
Chinese government limits online gaming hours for minors amid concerns of gaming addiction (31 Aug)
China Introduces “Xi Jinping Thought” Into School Curriculum For All Age Groups (30 Aug)
Making them all learn Xi-thought by rote and banning video games is a pretty good way to start a revolution about 5 years from now.
I hope they do get them up…then they can enjoy the experience of having someone put an RPG up THEIR arse.
Srr was banned by Sinc after his/her vicious and unwarranted attack on David Leyonhjelm.
That’s my (infallible) recollection.
Prove me wrong.
From Zipster’s link to the anti-lockdown protests:
“We are very comfortable with free speech… but when that’s with contravention to the public health order, police will not tolerate it.”
So free speech is OK except when it isn’t.
Bastards.
It’s fine, as long as no one is close enough to hear it.
Also, not fine if you are suggesting you should protest, especially if your five foot tall and pregnant.
You’re
Or if you’re BLM.
In which case Vikpol will take a knee for you.
“Lysandersays:
August 31, 2021 at 5:36 pm
Perhaps Roger…
Ben Eltham has just leaked Craig Kelly’s mobile phone on twitter… don’t think that’s very moral…”
Firstly, Kelly should report Eltham to the Information and Privacy Commission NSW.
I just can’t understand why anyone would do that? Nasty, vicious and cruel…..Kelly should endeavour to find Eltham’s number and leak it. I’m so over turning the other cheek needs to this crap.
I remember about three years ago a nasty far-left green doxxed Avi by releasing Avi’s address on twitter….so Avi filmed himself going around to the home of the doxxer. Of course the wife of the nasty far-left green called the police but methinks the doxxer learnt a lesson.
One can only think that they imagine we are on the cusp of their long time, century long, dream of the communist international.
Of course they do- they thought they were going to pull it of with their shitty Copenhagen COP back in the Krudd era. Time for another go.
A Channel 7 journalist reported that protesters “called us enemy of the people”. Finally some truth in reporting.
Yes Avi is one hell of a guy. Turning the other cheek- That’s one teaching of Christ I have always thought absurd. You hit back twice as hard.
How to win an election in Victoria:
1) Refund every single Covid fine.
2) Fire Brett Sutton and the top 5 other health officials.
3) Fire Shane Patton and Luke Cornelius.
4) Fire all police involved with discharging firearms at protesters.
5) Disband Public Order Response Team and Fire all members of it.
6) Undertake to retrain all Victorian Police in ethics, because they have none.
I just can’t understand why anyone would do that? Nasty, vicious and cruel…..Kelly should endeavour to find Eltham’s number and leak it. I’m so over turning the other cheek needs to this crap.
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You’re right Cassie, it’s time for a phone number for a phone number, an email address for an email address and then let’s see how it works out for the protected class.
Yes the Public Order Response Team with their black vans is dystopian and stalinist.
“A Channel 7 journalist reported that protesters “called us enemy of the people”. Finally some truth in reporting.”
Reminds me of what happened a few months ago in London when anti-lockdown protesters screamed at and abused a BBC reporter…I thought good. We need more of this.
When I was at CPAC last year I was approached by a reporter from SBS….she asked if she could ask me a few questions…..I smiled sweetly and said I don’t speak to garbage. She got quite a shock and I walked off. That’s how you deal with scum.
miltonfsays:
August 31, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Yes the Public Order Response Team with their black vans is dystopian and stalinist.
You spelled fascist incorrectly.
They might not mind being called Stalinist or communist, but they would hate being called fascist.
Nothing like as much interest in this current case.
father of two year old Alta Fixsler appeals to nhs to allow daughter to die at home
JC says:Anyone know like if a military chopper is maintenance intense?
The Australian Army had a lot of trouble when they first started operating Blackhawks over this very issue.
Its Time to call a halt to this Charade
When I was at CPAC last year I was approached by a reporter from SBS….she asked if she could ask me a few questions…..I smiled sweetly and said I don’t speak to garbage. She got quite a shock and I walked off. That’s how you deal with scum.
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Would have loved to have seen it.
Just saw the report that ABC is the second highest rated radio station in Sydney. Why are the poorer people in the western suburbs made to pay for listening choices of the well heeled eastern and northern suburbs residents? Surely advertisers would be storming their doors to advertise there if permitted. In our current economic situation it’s the only logical choice.
rickW
7 Fire VikPol those with visible tattoos
8 VikPol have mandatory fitness tests every 6 months. Fail = Fired
Bwah ha ha ha ha.
The auto-rotate descent is fine.
It is timing the flare which is the tricky bit.
It would be delicious symmetry if the Taliban Special K pranged a Blackhawk into a village and the locals towed the crew around behind a HiLux, a-whoopin’ and a-hollerin’.
Helicopters are dreadful things which require heaps of maintenance juts to be barely safe.
TE: Islamic Aviation Emergency procedures ” Imsh’allah”
Spot the Headline
From the “Australian.”
Channel 7 used very alarming graphics when illustrating the leading COVID infection LGAs. Blood red with roads in a lighter red as if to indicate blood vessels. Deaths once again both in their 80s and 90s. Yet the only way to go is ever harsher crackdowns.
I’m surprised they reported the silent protests on the far north coast. Looked very impressive, more like thousands than hundreds.
Flew Air Brunei once.
Lots of Allah Drivel playing through entertainment system before take off.
Still I suppose its cheaper than maintenance, needless to say my duty free wine did not last the trip
over 18 months to get their act together and yet Victorian hospitals are stretched thin. Completely incompetent.
That was part of it.
There was also some other unpleasant mouthy stuff a bit closer to home IIRC.
What is it with these conspiracy nutter “freedom of speech warriors” who end up trying to shut everyone else up?
Speaks volumes.
Eyrie says:
August 31, 2021 at 6:49 pm
Helicopters are dreadful things which require heaps of maintenance juts to be barely safe.
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That’s why there will never be flying cars, helicopter already are them.
Woolfe.
Which airline is alcohol free?
I thought that was Brunei.
The entire cricket team and the 200 support staff will all seek asylum.
Wong is actually one of the more honest pollimuppetts in disclosing her anti nationalist tendencies. Most of them, past and present over the last 50 years, have been fully on board with the UN globalist project.
Not in First Class, it isn’t – they have non Mooslim members of the cabin staff to serve the infidels their grog.
rosie says:
August 31, 2021 at 6:56 pm
over 18 months to get their act together and yet Victorian hospitals are stretched thin. Completely incompetent.
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As are the WA hospitals, at crisis point without any COVID cases. McGowan is all mouth and no action. Nothing would be better for the rest of Australia than if WA went their own way then they would need our tourist dollars to make up for the federal money they would lose.
Is that stinker Marise Payne in the US now paying homage to the bidet junta?
He he.
A former colleague (fixed wing pilot) once had to pick up a company helo pilot from the airport.
Both ex ADF.
I asked my colleague if he knew the helo pilot from the ADF.
That was the culmination of an argument that began during the Vietnam War – Army claimed that R.A.A.F had no idea what was required in the way of battlefield support, R.A.A.F. claimed that Army had no idea of what was involved in servicing and maintaining aircraft.
Wong is the scariest person in Parliament. And she’ll be a Federal minister very very soon.
Primary vote is ‘disastrous for the Coalition’ in latest Newspoll (30 Aug)
The base has left da building. I’m calling it: the LNP will lose the election in a landslide. And we’ll all be in even more excrement.
yes the lieborals deserve to lose but we don’t deserve the other branch of the uniparty
In NSW today, the Premier and Health Minister told us that vaccination was a path to freedom, but also there was a shortage of vaccines.
We’re in the very best of hands.
we don’t deserve the lieborals either
“The base has left da building. I’m calling it: the LNP will lose the election in a landslide. And we’ll all be in even more excrement.”
Wait for Peta Credlin, Tone Deaf Abbott and others Liberal hacks telling us how we must stay with the party…..despite the fact that the Liberal Party of Australia betrays its base and is spineless on just about everything….oh how’s that religious freedom bill going?
If Labor are to win, the only good thing would be a a senate that’s unmanageable.
I’m standing perfectly still.
The party has left me. I’m not inclined to chase after it.
‘Dr’ Jill really is a cheap old tart.
Somebody wrote on Dash Cat that DB’s Cat was down. When? I never noticed that.
“The party has left me. I’m not inclined to chase after it.”
That’s how I feel. Whilst I really don’t want an Albasleazy government and he’s not fit to be PM…I’m over the LNP.
I reckon Labor will bring back death taxes.
I see Bird is back on Dash Cat.
Have a relative who flies Globemasters in the USAF Reserves, as well as commercial airliners for a living.
He says that helicopters can’t fly; it’s a physical impossibility.
They’re just so butt-ugly the Earth repels them …
That, I’m afraid, is an inevitability. Initially, it will apply only to estates over a set figure (the mooted figure is $3 000 000). However, the long game game is to gradually encompass all estates. The figure being tossed around is 20%.
The A.C.T.U was calling for said death taxes at the last election, and they were Greens policy for some time..
This brings together what Cats have been saying for years. It brings together a lot of the comments, themes, links and research. One hour.
https://rumble.com/vlvxg8-ep.-2564b-they-are-being-forced-into-the-light-it-had-to-be-this-way-in-the.html
Cassie – Did for a short while. I got a 504 trying to get to the OT at about 4:30pm, and the main page took a long while to load.
This is right:
Rylee McCollum was one of the 13 U.S. service members who died after an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated outside the Kabul airport last week. The young Marine was in Afghanistan on his first deployment shortly after getting married in February. His wife, Jiennah Crayton, is expecting the couple’s first child at the end of September.
“My son was a genius child, an IQ 156. He could have done anything you wanted to do in the military and he chose to be a Marine sniper. … He chose this course, but I never thought in a million years he would die for nothing, for nothing because a feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap decided he wanted a photo op on Sept. 11. That’s what kills me,” McCollum said. “I wanted my son to represent our country, to fight for my country, but I never thought that a feckless piece of crap would send him to his death and smirk on television while he’s talking about people dying with his nasty smirk.”
McCollum not only called for Biden’s removal but said this situation “never would have happened under Trump.”
“Cassie – Did for a short while. I got a 504 trying to get to the OT at about 4:30pm, and the main page took a long while to load.”
Sabotage?
“feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap “
that every day the MSM run cover for.
Shana Chappell, Grieving Mother of Marine Kareem Nikoui Killed in Kabul, Has Facebook and Instagram Accounts Suspended For Speaking Against Joe Biden
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/31/shana-chappell-grieving-mother-of-marine-kareem-nikoui-killed-in-kabul-has-facebook-and-instagram-accounts-suspended-for-speaking-against-joe-biden/
Yes. I will not be chasing after the Coalition either. I’ll be chasing good conservative minors or independents.
Caledonian Hotel Singleton on George st (New England Hwy) has been flying a banner that reads:
“Jab or no Jab,
All welcome
at the Cali
Free Australia”
Noice… Gladys is going to need boyfriend if the ALP get elected. Can’t see them not turning ICAC on her.
Mmmm…. someone who is capable of getting a multi-engined turbine off the ground without buggering the engines, is likely to not have much of a problem doing an auto from 500 ft.
Your point is valid though. When components begin failing, calling upon Allah to keep ‘er in the air isn’t going to work.
The base has left da building. I’m calling it: the LNP will lose the election in a landslide. And we’ll all be in even more excrement.
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Bruce, that is now inevitable mostly due to the fact that the lockdowns hurt tradies and small businesses the most and these people voted LNP. They will not do so next year.
Labor will benefit and the best we can hope for is a Senate full of minor parties to hold back the worst of their excesses.
Maybe that’s worth a thought.
A network of businesses who don’t discriminate.
Sanchez,
Yea Air Brunei was alcohol free but they let you drink your own duty free, and even provide a glass.
Another saying comes to mind …
“When a helicopter hits the ground, the accident is only just beginning.”
“That’s why there will never be flying cars, helicopter already are them.”
No, think electric quadcopter crossed with small fixed wing aircraft. Aviation 2.0.
Nearly 50 years ago when I was working for the RAAF and they had their own emergency helicopters I heard ” flying helicopters is like masturbation – great fun while you’re doing it but you don’t talk about it afterwards”.
“When a helicopter hits the ground, the accident is only just beginning.”
Yeah but all the moving bits are going AWAY from you.
Ben Eltham – what a loser. Does anyone else remember he was about to publish – in a day or two, he said – the ultimate takedown of Andrew Bolt that would finish him forever.
It never appeared.
I’ve reported his tweet. I don’t imagine anything will come of it, but you never know.
Mater, it is a pretty popular miners pub. When this is over I will have to frequent it more. One I do feel sorry for is the old Cockfighter Creek Hotel at Bulga on the Putty Rd. New owners did a stack of work on the place before COVID hit. I used to enjoy a weekend lunch there…
Fat Tony says:
August 31, 2021 at 4:59 pm
Pallet loads of cash – probably $US100’s. Shrinkwrapped.
Try several billion……. bit like Obummers Iranian “deal”.
That was probably the price Biden’s team agreed to pay the Taliban to stay out of Kabul till the 31st August, together with the military equipment. Embarrassingly, the ANA were expected to maintain some presence till then, but they just went over without a fight, they are all Taliban now.
An Australian version of this?
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That’s it. No agendas, politics, or drama. Just work. Interested? Let’s create that world together.
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If you read Eric “Winkle” Brown’s book he mentions he and a colleague were sent from Boscombe Down to Liverpool IIRC to pick up and deliver a Sikorsky R-4 back to Boscombe. They read the flight manual on the train to Liverpool. Started the thing, quickly frightened themselves, retreated to the Mess for a couple of stiff whiskey’s, gave it another go and flew it home. Amazing.
If you ever have to steal a helicopter it hopefully has wheels. Treat it like a fixed wing and do a rolling takeoff and landing. You may live.
Except the ground. That bit is moving towards you.
Re-watching a couple of old classics: Waterloo Bridge with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor; a real gut-wrencher underneath the exquisite visuals and understated histrionics. Viv is a ballerina who gives up a life toil on the stage for upper-class good guy Bob. War intervenes and a serious of misunderstandings, not too implausible, and the spectre of poverty drive Viv into the good time Charlie profession. Bob thought dead, turns up and renews the marriage plan but Viv can’t subject him or his upper crust family to the shame and kills herself on the bridge where they met. It is 1918 after all.
It’s a classy effort despite what are now romantic cliches and reinforces my view that very little made after 1960 in Hollywood is worth watching.
Next up Double Indemnity with Fred and the incomparable Barbara.
Oooh.
This could now be my kind of airline.
RSA?
What’s that?
“I’ve reported his tweet. I don’t imagine anything will come of it, but you never know.”
Thanks Vlad…as I said above, Eltham has to be made accountable.
I am an expert at helicopters since I have been in exactly one of them.
Once. On an exercise. A Chinook.
I expect we blew the regiment’s entire training budget for a year. 😀
A Chinook?
I’d pay good money to see one of those hit the deck with both those big rotors running.
When a helicopter has to put down in the wilderness coz engine failure, it comes to a perfect still stop & at the worst there’s too many trees, so drop into the treetops with zero forward motion.
If a fixed-wing jock has to put ‘er down coz the engine quits, the best that can be hoped for is be riding an eggshell at fifty miles an hour into a forest.
The chances of surviving a rotor-wing prang have always been better than the survival rate for fixed-wing.
I’ve had 4 flights in helicopters. Three in Hueys (great fun- particularly the practice autorotations – like being in a safe pushed out of a skyscraper)) and one in a Robinson R44 (scary). I got to fly the Robbie. I thought I was doing well until the owner pointed out I was over controlling. Bastard thing. Never again in a Robbie.
Crossie
Labor will benefit and the best we can hope for is a Senate full of minor parties to hold back the worst of their excesses.
Relax. The Stupid Fecking Lieborals will support Labor in the Senate, in the true spirit of UniPartyism. Doesn’t work the other way unless critical matters (public funding of elections, compulsory voting, et al) are under threat.
“When a helicopter has to put down in the wilderness coz engine failure, it comes to a perfect still stop & at the worst there’s too many trees, so drop into the treetops with zero forward motion.”
And then you get killed by falling out of a tree.
“If a fixed-wing jock has to put ‘er down coz the engine quits, the best that can be hoped for is be riding an eggshell at fifty miles an hour into a forest.”
If there’s nowhere reasonable to at least walk away from the wreckage, I’m bailing out. Parachutes are wonderful. I love my parachute.
I’ve picked up the pieces after the odd helicopter crash – does that make me an expert?
They are great movies cohenite!
That little lucky charm.
Another good catch-up is The Razor’s Edge. Worth a look.
A Chinook. One of these. Amazing pair of photos. Should be in history books.
Can I throw in a tail rotor failure?
Auto-rotate that.
The Tyrone Power one. Another good one is Dawn Patrol. Oh, Errol!
Keep your feet on the ground, Cats.
If God meant you to fly, he would have given you wings.
https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/1380/over-country?page=1&scrollTo=3154
In some circles there used to be a ‘formula’ for taking over a country which was mainly based on how actual communist insurrectionists were observed operating in European, South American and African countries.
Firstly, you foment a ‘disaster’ or catastrophe that terrifies and concerns the local populace;
Secondly, you capture and control the means of communication both internal and external of your target country;
Thirdly, you send out ‘peace keepers’ to put down and control any dissenters to your aims, by any means whatsoever;
Fourthly, you so disrupt the local economy that the ‘citizens’ acquiesce to you for aid; and
Fifthly, you appeal to the UN international community for help to fix your countries problems.
On a scale of 1 to 5 above, where is Australia?
Two chopper rides, one over the Grand Canyon, the other over Iguazu Falls.
Only one hot air balloon- Pillensberg game park, near the Botswana border.
Plus plenty of teeny fixed wing in PNG, for my many sins. Nearer my God to Thee.
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I once got dubbed on the back of a mates chopper bicycle in the seventies.
Ape hangers and the banana seat, three speed.
Does that count?
Dot
Rush out and get your shot now while stocks last.
Catastrophic failure of a tail rotor is usually the result of inadvertantly using it to prune a tree. (Or chopping it off by unloading the disc, in which case a missing tail is the least of your worries)
A bloke I know well had his tail rotor hit by a possum, there’s probably worse things to happen, but it’ll do until I think what could be worse.
It is the only tail rotor incident (in flight) that I know of IRL.
I’ve got lots of wings, Arma, but I doubt I’ll be flying anywhere anytime soon.
The nearest I’ve been to flying something is a hang glider off of some sandhills, and stick of a Cessna of the friend of my dad’s – we were flying from Armidale to Andamooka as a nice excuse to get his hours up. Never caught my interest, I’m too much a ground pounder.
It’s fun to think this stuff as I just now read in 1633 (by Flint and Weber) of the first aeroplane flight on Earth, which took place in that year. A Cessna 170ish two seater with kitchen laminex body and a VW car engine. Cool!
That’s the downside to not being allowed to climb trees as a kid. A potentially valuable life skill is not acquired. ?
I’ve handled a wombat gun but never a possum gun. Must be a wicked thing to fire.
I had a friend who used to hang glide off Stanwell Tops. Poor fellow broke his back and had to wear a body brace for months.
He fell off the toilet and got wedged between the throne and the wall.
Which goes to show, more accidents happen at home.
Never heard an M79 called that, before.
Lol.
It was a real fair dinkum furry possum, almost certainly a brushtail, jumping from tree to tree, prolly in terror as the big noise nasty helicopter had woken poss from the deepest of deep daytime sleeps.
It jumped straight into the tail rotor. Destroyed it. A kid’s marble, or a 5-cent coin, will be enough to bugger a tail rotor & prolly shake the machine to bits very very very swiftly.
A possum jumping head first into the tail rotor was catastrophic.
One helicopter flight in Hawaii, over the Kilauea volcano. That day only a few puff of smoke from it. Back home a few weeks later there it was on the news, spewing lava all over the place. I know, there would not have been a helicopter flight over the volcano at all had it been erupting. Great experience nonetheless.
There was nothing more entertaining than watching Sea Kings practice autorotations
from sonar dipping height – 80′ iirc.
All the grace of a broken piano out of a seventh floor window.
Zulu – We did. That was 1979. I got in strife for forgetting to carry the wretched thing once as well as my SLR on annual camp. Usually was the gunner – a M-60 is harder to misplace. Never had the fun of firing a M79 though, which I suppose was appropriate after my stuff up.
From the “Australian.” “Do as we say, not as we do.”
Helicopter rides:
Kandahar to Bastion on an MI-8. Co-pilot made a point of identifying that it was Polish built and less likely to crash.
Huey’s in PNG flying to different spots around Moro. Still had the door gun mounts on them from use in Bougainville.
I think it was a jet ranger in kiwi land on a joy flight.
Best plane ride, chartered Learjet, just me and missus as pax, MEL-AKL-WLG-CHC-MEL in one day. Pilots were keen to show me its military jet pedigree.
Cattle mustering in the Kimberley is usually done by chopper and the most common chopper in use is the Robinson.
Watching a good helicopter pilot in action chasing cattle is fascinating, they do aerial stunts only feet from the ground. Amazing skills.
Below pic is a Robinson R22 chasing cattle swooping feet off the ground. This very same helicopter was written off in an accident at Perth’s Jandakot airport in 2019. The pilot and passenger survived with minor injuries. Risk your life in the bush and nearly get killed at the airport.
Robinson R22 at the muster.
A company run by the husband of Labor senator Marielle Smith is being pressured to pay back the tens of millions of dollars it pocketed in JobKeeper payments, after it posted a profit of more than $37m.
Just scratching the surface of the greatest wealth transfer in history.
It never ceases to amaze me how married couples in the political and media elite rarely have the same surname. It’s almost as if they are trying to hide something.
Robinson R22
I think the Robinsons developed a reputation in PNG for losing main rotor blades. The elastomeric flap drag hinge didn’t like the continuous high ambient temperature.
Apparently when this happens the vibration is so intense that your vision becomes blurred.
After I was conscripted, at the Parrot’s beak I…..
What?
You mean Tanya Plibersek and her husband, oh, what was his name again?
See, I’m not using enough capitals.
That’s what happens when the morning crew pinch them all.
Me too. Rio Bravo at the moment.
But I’m also halfway through a newie: The Tomorrow War … don’t think too much and it’s great fun.
Have a copy of The Yangtse Incident (also known as Battle Hell) that I’m very keen to rewatch.
Beats the hell out of all this covid shit!!
Pedro, we were on a road trip to Kununurra a few months back. Somewhere between Karratha and Hedland.
No warning, and the road ahead was suddenly streaming with cattle crossing from left to right! Managed to stop as two Robinsons flew over the road barely ahead of us at zero feet, sideways, herding the cattle.
Interesting.
Delivered by an angry looking man in a turban, who is certainly delivering a bollocking to faithful and unbelievers alike.
The same retards that were restricting who could be vaccinated only a couple of moths ago are now pushing everybody for it.
When the had a shed-load, you couldn’t have it.
Now there’s nothing around, even school kiddies have to get it.
These people are fucking morons
The HMS Amethyst breakout.
A mother in the U.K. having her say about vaccinating children
Somebody used a Robinson in PNG? WTF for?
Never heard of that issue though rickw.
How much higher is the ambient air temperature in PNG than in northern Australia?
Have i stumbled across Aviation Safety Digest Online?
Inspired by this graphic I found on Twitter
ps://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-F6JX-UUAICMka?format=jpg&name=medium
which shows the relationship between widespread ivermectin use (to combat River Blindness) and Covid death rates in Africa in early 2021, I looked up the current death rates per million on Worldometer.
The average death rate for ivermectin nations was 94 per million compared to an average 515 per million for nations which aren’t afflicted with River Blindness. If I had included Seychelles the difference would have been greater still.
What a shame there isn’t enough graft in ivermectin to interest our medical establishment.
Chopper rides:
Only one over Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. Spectacular!
Link wrong. Apologies. The graphic can be found here with a bit of mucking about.
https://twitter.com/TheCurlyAfro2/status/1432560461728288770?s=20
Scroll down.
Excellent photo Pedro.
(it is not me in the photo)
Can’t find the crash comic online at the moment, IIRC prang at Jandakot was a training accident & RZK was totally destroyed in a rollover after ground contact.
It’s spelt “ dogging” in Australia Arky.
At least we know who ended up with the rhinestone studded arseless chaps.
Whatever about Helicopters but The American Deep State deliberately set up the Forever War.
Shearing at Mardie station and the mad old station owner would drive sheep into the shed with his plane about 6 feet off the ground.
Quite a sight while you are loading your hand piece up to have a Cessna nearly sharing the board with you.
Phil Blackman was his name. Had been a Dutch fighter pilot in WW2 and was on the Missouri when Japan surrendered.
Very much a King in grass castles, wouldn’t talk to workers directly only through the boss.
First shed I got a stand at.
He nearly lost his pilots license when he got caught using fencing wire to repair part of a tail on the plane.
I have to look-in to this; it happens now and then to me too.
My Uncle Tom was always proud to know he shore the last sheep on Heaven Station.
FM, you pushed a boggi?
You fellers are an elite, ranking above helicopter pilot.
(In my opinion)
Three complaints today from neighbours about noise from the tiler’s cutting up of thick chunks of travertine, thank goodness I can say the job is finishing tomorrow. Discovered too that Paddy had removed some plate glass in the way by the expedient of bashing it, which sent small diamonds of shatter-glasss down onto the lawn at the bottom of the cliff. I spent hours picking it out of the lawn locating it as it glinted in the sunlight so it wouldn’t fly up and blind the gardener. Got half a big bucket full, thousands of chunky sparkly dimaonds. Then the washing machine did a bearing of some sort, making a terrible noise when Hairy put in a very big towel and his thick top, and so will have to be repaired before further use. Finally, Hairy marches in to use my computer because his old faithful has at last carked it at a most inconvenient moment. I think it might be bedtime and see y’all down in the garage around 8am. It is far away from our building and so we don’t hear the noise, but apparently others do. Who knew? I shall have to send them all a bottle of decent wine to compensate, busy little workers-from-home that they say they are, but I know they aren’t. I see them on their verandah’s and in their gardens far too often to be taken in by that tall tale.
It will be fantastic when the communists shut down all the coal fired power stations.
One and only helicopter ride was in a little 2 seater on a station on the Birdsville track a couple of years ago.
We were mustering cattle and shooting camels, me with the station pump action .223.
lucky there will be no spare meat and grubs are the best.
well done
Have you ever seen kangaroo harvesters in action?
Where do you get staff from?
Another sponsorship refusal today. (Dept of Home Affairs aren’t the brightest bulb in any chandelier)
I’ve handled a wombat gun but never a possum gun. Must be a wicked thing to fire.
I reckon a possum might fit in one of these:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_8.4cm_recoilless_rifle
Now THERE’s a pressure slap…
(Also a heavy and awkward critter to carry. But glorious to use).
You mean there’s people who haven’t?
(Er… if you’re meaning roo shooters, that is)
Don’t be facetious Salvatore.
Of course most people have not seen ‘roo shooters’.
Nor have they seen kangaroo harvesting operations.
It is the same as most people would not have a clue as to the production line of meat on their plate.
serve grubs to your clients.
Do you think when Labor is fully in power that “meat” will be served, anywhere???
They are Green Communists FFS.
Can I tek your order please?
one Bug Mac meal, thanks
Woke for the drink?
Yah
I would have used my .303 but the brass was ejected out of the aircraft, and I reload mine.
The .223 turned out to be plenty of gun. You get quite close to them with the helicopter.
I hate meat.
Grubs are best,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I&t=74s
Grubs are best,
Don’t even need a gun in our new UN overlord communist heaven.
you must have a lot of meat.
who was the manufacturer of your 0.303 calibre delivery system??
Eddystone
which police branch do you belong?
Watching Aussie Cossack’s feed is not a good idea. My blood pressure can’t take it.
There’s no doubt, NSW Plod are utter scum. They’re disgracing the uniform (not that it retains any dignity or respect)
Is it not amazing that we still have an Australian Taxation Office!?
After all, every single taxation agent is licensed by the ATO to gather as much money as possible.
Communists do that.
who certifies ‘lawyers’?
who certifies so called ‘doctors’?
who certifies so called judges and police?
who certifies hospitals?
we live in a communist country….
prove me wrong
who certifies so called academics?
who certifies so called Australian politicians??????????????????
Let we Australians lick the arse of the UN.
Back to killing babies in Afghanistan
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2021/08/back-to-killing-babies-in-afghanistan.html
I would kick the guts out of John Howard.
The filth that changed the law to protect his shithead brother.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Warren Brown.
Warren Brown #2.
Christian Adams.
Morten Morland.
Dave Simonds.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Matt Margolis.
Matt Margolis #2.
Military family shit cans Trump, gets coverage on most networks.
Military family shit cans Biden, zero cover apart from Fox & facebook bans the mothers account.
feelthebern says:
September 1, 2021 at 4:32 am
Situation normal then?
FTB 4.32am Face book bans Military Mothers account . Do the Taliban still have their accounts now that they joy ride helicopters with a man dangling by his neck on a length of rope.?
Dover 11.45pm . Yesterday you were down around 4am .No Toms cartoons ,came back in the pm for short period and off again.
Mate rode in an Mi 26 the UN chartered when rotating out of East Timor once. Told me there was an oil leak in the cabin. The Russian or Ukranian (He’s unsure) loadmaster yelled “Da, if it stops leaking tell us. If it stop leaking we crash…”
m0nty has the final word on the murdered woman,,, with interesting excoriation of m0nty from shit from brisbane.
https://catallaxy.wpengine.com/2021/08/lt-michael-byrd-champion-of-the-cathedral/
Dilbert
Glenn Greenwald on the media sucking down the Washington War Machine cool-aid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvNKX4OBbFk