On 02/05/2006, at 13:14, John O'Neill wrote: Peter, Several Flying Planks were constructed in Australia c1958. One was hanging on the wall of the Gliding Club of Victoria's hangar at Benalla for a lot of years, not sure where this one is now. It is still there at the back of our main hangar. In
I remember seeing a video put together by VMFG with some B&W footage of Fred
Hoinville attempting to fly a Plank. Looked pretty interesting...
A year or two ago Roger Druce still had some copies at Bacchus.
Dave Long
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Yes the tapes are still available. The content has the plank flying at
Moorabin and other films including Queer Birds ( A tape of gliding with the
VMFG at Berwick) and the T-31 10,000th flight. Let me know if you want one,
$17:00 each. Postage included.
The Plank at Benalla is now in the care of
Yes, it is on the CD distibuted to new VMFG members as an 8 MB .wmv file.
Cheers
Roger Druce
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Hi Ian,
I beg to differ, Led Zepplin did stairway to heaven, Fred Hoinville did
Halfway to heaven, both good in there own rights, absolute classics, much as
you are .
regards JR
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Oops, my mistake, what was I thinking?
I'm not sure about the classic tag.
Ian P
Kookaburra Precision Soaring Team
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It’s not a jet-powered glider but I bet it
would give a good auto-tow.
http://www.freewebs.com/jet_beetle/index.htm
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G'day
all,
Our club (Hunter
Valley) is having its Puchacz aileron pushrods inspected in a few months.
This involves opening the wings, inspecting, (fixing?) and repairing the
hole.
Have others here had
the procedure done to their Puchacz? Were any repairs or replacements
required?
Ben
What is driving the necessity to inspect the aileron
pushrods in the wings at this time?
Roger Druce
VMFG
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