Aboriginal politics and gyro's

[mad max]

The little jack russell cross dog I"m looking after for a young lady came home yesterday and died of what I suspect to be a snake bite. This morning I had to do some more flight tests to confirm the safety of my new duel Ign. on my ea81. So as usual I taxied through the long grass building up rotor revs (Too scared to walk first in case of snakes) and the front wheel fell in a hole with blades doing about 100rpm. One prop. blade just clipped one rotor and left a black mark under the blade. (lucky) Then a zenair owner neighbour turns up and informs me that all the local aboriginals are quite happy for us to use their strip free of charge but are over-ridden by two mean white people who control the money!

[tryhardgolfer]

bloody white honky"s

[Bill Cross]

Hey Max,Find out who the main man of the tribe is and take him or his son for a ride and ahow them the value of having a search and rescuemachine on standby. The council Ceo must listen to the senior elder. Use the power of the people. :-)

[mad max]

I"ll do that Bill. Last night I was coming home on the ferry and got chatting to a very pleasant and intelligent black fellow who asked me to take him up and "look for bullock" I said if you get me a key to the airstrip, No problems. I think he has a lot of say there because he"s sober most of the time. He asked if he could shoot from the gyro. (It would make an entertaining incident report, a black fellow poking his rifle barrel through the rotor blades)

[birdy]

The council Ceo must listen to the senior elder. ???????????Never known that to happen.The LCs are only there for themselves, ol mate blackfella is just as lonly as e was before Cooky got ere. >

[Bill Cross]

Hey Max,Ya want me to post that photo from the old days. Least it pointed the right way. ;DYour right Birdy, the old true black fella miss"s out all round. If you don"t have to work for it then it"s value is meaningless The old fella"s I used to sit and talk to, rue the day that sit down money came into existance. Before that they all belong somewhere and were all gainfully employed which included the extended family. All the cash now gets soaked up by the adminstration before it hits the ground. I can tell you some stories about some of the stufff that went down when I was still in the NT over a bottle of rum one night. From memory, every man, woman and child in TFC had around $125k spent on each of them every year on their behalf. Not much of that hit the ground where it would do any good. Lined a few yella fella pockets though.

[birdy]

A coupla stats that dont add up.1; the aboriginal population has the highest child mortality rate.2;the aborigional population is the fastest grown in OZ.How can this be?Easy.MONEY.You see, its VERY profitable to be aborigional in Oz, thats why there are so many WHITE blackfells round these days.The most painless way to reduce the aborigional population in Oz, stop the flow of sit coin. All the white blackfellas will see no benifit in be"n on the gravy train and become white again, and ol mate murry will be forever greatfull to us for it.

[mad max]

I think the only way to solve my problem is to migrate south away from aboriginal politics and trees. Almost lost the trainer on a beach other day. Landed on quick-sand. Amazing where you get strength from when you have to. Lifted each wheel out with a woman strapped on board. Lucky she wasn"t one of the many o-beast now lurking around the country From now on I shall make sure there"s a spanner on board at all times. One could remove blades and then better man-handle gyro up a beach. (You really have to leave the passenger strapped in ready for a quick retreat before it sinks again)

[Disco]

So what was it that took you down?

[mad max]

My own fault. I strapped on two more larger wheels up near the pedals slightly higher than the steerable wheel thinking the craft would handle soft sand and tried it out. One of my many experiments that has failed miserably :"(

[tonydenton]

max, i always had the idea of duals on the front and a small but

[mad max]

Two stearable front wheels and a ski, sounds like a good idea? When I flew these two fixed steering front wheels I found the craft felt a little strange to control. There was some strange wind drag and I was happy to remove them. I tested another gyro with a standard front wheel and a ski with a slot and the wheel sticking through but the sand just shot up the slot and jammed everything

[NEVILLE JONES]

Hey MaxDont go south go westGood strip for sale in Kununurra Plenty of hanger spaceBrand new 2 bedroom house so new you can pick the wall colourPlenty of work going on here heeps of water what else do you needNev

[mad max]

I"ll tell the misses Neville. Not far from here. I like the weather here though on this peninsular. Tropical with a breeze most of the time. I told a poli. that you guys fly between kununarra and here following the coast and we are a coast watch asset. (I hope Stewart got the gps co-ord. of the Liberator) I said when they get to this end they are not allowed to land on the indig. airstrip without a kings ransom. Prob. won"t do any good but at least I keep the pressure on the blighters. Any chance of a gps co-ord on the property, Neville, so we can check on G/Earth?

[Bill Cross]

Hi Nev,Wheres that house for sale?May be looking for a change of scenery shortly.CheersBill