A law stopping people is one thing, actually carrying out such an act might be racially unworkable (as in ‘you are white so you can leave the country…but you are brown-skinned and a Muslim, so you can’t!‘). Since you cannot even trust a return ticket I would guess that a government might have felt better about letting potential freedom fighters/terrorists/mercenaries/ordinary citizens leave if they had their family with them…

So please tell us, Student Pilot, what does the Australian government propose to do about this child and his parents? I’m guessing that it might have something to do with waiting until they turn up in a country with an extradition treaty with Australia?

So please tell us snafu if it is consistent to let Israeli/Australians back into the country that have seen military service in the occupied territories? They have blood on their hands as well and it’s State sponsored. There are literally thousands of young Australians returning to Australia after doing Israeli military service. What is the difference?

Here you go Keefy, let others judge my intention.
Keefy
I don’t want to get in a pissing contest so hence the PM.
I have been flying Ag and associated low level flying since 1980. In that work all of it is low level and the smallest machine has been 400 hp. 7000 (well under a third of my flying time) hours of that is radial aircraft up to an including Drom’s. Most of my work has been solo flying doing stuff from cotton, fertilising, broadacre spraying, survey, rice, forestry work and firebombing in 802 Air Tractors.
Firebombing is flying 802’s that have 1400 HP and weigh 3 tonne sitting empty, 7 tonne ready for work. Flying very low level in pretty crap conditions. There are hundreds of people the world over fly these things every summer, northern hemisphere and southern. The pilots just get on with a very dangerous job and expect nothing more than a paycheck. And these days miserable operators are cutting the pilot wages while the directors dollars go up. Firebombing is a very rewarding job, you do some good. It is immensely satisfying to help people and animals doing this work, as I said we expect nothing more than being payed and treated decently.
My criticism still stands, I think a gong for a forced landing on a runway might require buying old mate a beer, that’s all.
The reason I call myself Student Pilot is you never stop learning every time you go flying, which is most days for me. I still fly with a passion I got as a kid watching Ag aircraft and such stuff as Battle O Briton.
SP

Mad Max 15 or whatever the latest one is, I give it a 2 out of 10. Red Tails, the graphics are overdone. The aircraft skid around turns and is just unrealistic, 2 out of 10

Duxford was busy with lots of visitors today and there was enough variety, flying wise, to keep the Duxford Snaparazzi happy. 😀

Brian

With such a clean design it’s a shame to not have a pre war paint scheme. I have seen a silver one with classic stripes and a Lufthansa insignia that looked very nice.

In the painting with that much aileron deflection surely you would have a bootfull of rudder as well?

What a bewdy, Kiwi’s would have to be one of the most aviation oriented communities. Why at airshows do people want to see things shot down in a simulated way? The strafing runs with 1000 litres of fuel erupting at the back of the airfield and machine guns played over the loudspeaker fools nobody. Or the Spitfire shooting down the Buchon trailing smoke? Do people just like the flames? Just some spirited flying satisfies me, am I the odd one out?

I listened to a talk by Chuck once, it was a small informal doo with mostly pilots. Chuck gave a talk of about 40 minutes covering his early days flying in England and hunting pigs in Germany post war. One of his claims was how he could see enemy aircraft from ten miles away while other pilots couldn’t. He talked about his flying through his career to the test flying. He was more than dismissive of the English and gave them and German engineers no credit with the early jet/rocket development and fast aircraft design.
Most who heard him speak thought differently of him when they left to when they arrived.