Aviation Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / February 2010

http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/planes-to-keep-flying-with-crackpron
e-wheels-20100217-ocbh.html
Planes to keep flying with crack-prone wheels ANDREW HEASLEY
February 17, 2010 - 2:16PM
Australia's air safety bureau is happy to let Regional Express Airlines' fleet

Drunk lovers scale 100m crane in the dark
Article from: Cairns Post
    February 17, 2010 06:30am
AN off-duty skydiving pilot and instructor took their love of heights to

Bombs In Breast Implants?
Report: Al-Qaida May Be Using Implants To Make Bombs
Posted: 8:47 am PST February 11, 2010Updated: 9:01 am PST February 11, 2010
HOUSTON -- A British intelligence service said it's discovered that gel

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/02/fatwa-forbids-mu
slims-going-through-full-body-scanners/1
or http://tinyurl.com/ygjo6nx
Must be another rash of Moslem Homicide Bombers about?
They had the Dutch shut down all of theirs prior to Christmas Bomber

http://www.netrider.net.au/forums/showthread.php?t=110117
Don't know the origin of the photos, though...

http://www.warbirdz.net/largepic.php?ID=16580
I think from memory I was told by Museum staff that it was there because of
our involvement in Vietnam. I know we had at least one aussie F4 pilot but
we had more flying in FACS and none of them had a Skippy tag.

I said I was never going to get one, but I buckled as I wanted to fly
to Mildura ( RPT airport ) in March so I put in my application through
RAA,.. and was pleasantly surprised to find my ASIC in the mail today
just 10 days after posting off the application... I hear going through

The best reason
“We've got to make a judgement here. An incident has occurred in the
United States."
r

A couple of items fron this
http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/boeings-new-747-jumbo-jet-soars-in-first-flig
ht/story-e6frfq80-1225828300300
"The 747-8 Freighter "performed well'' in taxi tests....."
Whats required for taxi test to perform well???????

Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In Big February 2010 Newsletter
G'Day World War 2 & jet aircraft fans ---
You're invited to drop by Zeno's Drive-In www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com
for this month's flight of five exciting aviation documentary films

The Brit Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has released its
final report into the 17 January 2008 crash-landing of a Boeing 777 at
London's Heathrow, confirming its earlier interim conclusion that ice in
the fuel feed system "probably" caused the crash.

When you shoot first and ask questions later, innocent people die....
http://www.news.com.au/world/video-shows-jets-shooting-down-missionaries/story-e
6frfkyi-1225826725307
Coop

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/news/dui-pilots-lose-drivers-licenses-but-can
-still-fly/story-fn32891l-1225826182769
Some obscure (to me, at least) org claiming to represent flying public says that
it's a disgrace. Personally I think that flying and driving are two separate

<http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/oxygen-explosion-collapses-h
ospital-floors/story-e6freuyi-1225820990912>
If it really was an oxygen explosion. I can't see why oxygen would
explode. What's the combustion product?
Sylvia.