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Post by Andrew Godden on Jan 27, 2009 16:45:45 GMT -5
The Forum tells me one of the GAAR participants is celebrating a birthday today.
So, Happy Birthday Katie Pipkin. Hope you have a great day.
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Post by Ed Burke on Jan 27, 2009 17:57:46 GMT -5
Yes, HBD Katie and good luck with the Vultee
Ed
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Post by katiepipkin on Jan 28, 2009 12:25:27 GMT -5
Thanks guys!!
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Post by Allan_Lowson on Jan 28, 2009 17:58:43 GMT -5
Many happy returns. Hope you enjoy the GAAR.
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Post by Dave Evans bgak015 on Jan 29, 2009 21:26:33 GMT -5
I must have celibrated Katies birthday with too much of Kapt. Zlogs brew, cause those Kats he had hanging around at the previous GAAR are starting to look blonde and pretty!! I'd better climb onto pallet I have made into a bed in the bomb bay of the B-25 and sleep this off...
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Post by rattler1 on Feb 1, 2009 15:42:53 GMT -5
Well, here we are with the GAAR officially underway. Just gone 0600 in Oenpelli, where we're all thinking about a good breakfast before the departure to Garden Point. I just thought I would share a bit of weather from the UK. The latest for my local airfield, London Stansted, at 2030 local is snow showers and minus 3C, forecasting overnight visibility reducing to 700 meters in heavy snow and going down to 200 meters during the day tomorrow. Boy, sleeping under the wing in Oz sure feels good!!
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Post by pterodactyl (George) on Feb 1, 2009 21:42:54 GMT -5
Rattler: All of us northern flyers are happy to be in the Oz right now. Even though I left for Oz in December or November when I step outside for some reason tonights weather is -22C with a NW 20kt wind . Oh and like you more #*&^&%$# snow. At least while we fly we're in OZ.
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Post by Smithy on Feb 2, 2009 6:38:01 GMT -5
BRRRrrrr (insert shiver here) Bring some of that ice and shhnow down these parts, to be sure. The heat is abnormal as is the cold and the odd ice cube in one's Daquiri will go somewhat at even slightly cooling the glass before one imbibes. In Melbourne I hear the temp. has been somewhere in the vicinity of 40*C plus for around a week. Quiet unheard of. Proppy's kettle has indeed imploded. Over in Adelaide the temperature has topped out at over 40*C+ for more than seven days running!! Not just a global warning my fellow pilots, it is to the extreme with daily temperatures of 43-45*C. (113*F) This is not the norm and quiet unheard of according to my 96 year old Gran. Even my Great Gran never ever experienced such events, so I am told. So, do the math... not in living memory of a collective 150 years odd, has a heatwave of the like ever touched the most desolate and water starved continent on the Planet. I ask all to tune in, turn off, and drop out the new electrical equipment you plan to buy for your meagre abode. As there will soon be no power to run it ....... Go read a book ~as one day your children's, children's, children will be doing, and they will read about how selfish and unremitting was the people that lived in the 20th century were. we are all to blame so get off your proverbial ass and do something to help! let us all realise how fortunate we are to be here in this day and age and as a collective forget how much dough you are losing on the stockmarket and try to make a better place, every day, for those that will have alot more to worry about in the future, if indeed there is one. cheers to all & thankyou for reading my diatribe PS...did I mention I just finished watching a doco on the environment?!!...
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Post by Allan_Lowson on Feb 8, 2009 17:55:49 GMT -5
As I sit in one of the least snow-affected areas of Blighty, it was sobering to view the devastation in Southeastern Australia with the fires.
Commiserations to anyone affected, either directly or through families and friends.
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Post by Andrew Godden on Feb 8, 2009 18:14:21 GMT -5
Allan,
Thank you for the thoughts.
The irony of this tragedy is my family's "ancestral" (my grandparents) home on a small farmlet was one of the first houses to be destroyed on Saturday afternoon. My cousin and his wife have lost absolutely everything, including a couple of prime movers and trailers. My uncle (cousin's dad) lost all his breeding stock of homing pigeons. At least all are safe and well and material losses can be replaced.
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Post by rattler1 on Feb 8, 2009 18:46:16 GMT -5
Sad to hear that, Andrew. Hope all remain safe and well, and suffer no further losses. Here we have snow lying on the lawn.
best,
Peter
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Post by Andrew Godden on Feb 8, 2009 19:36:51 GMT -5
Peter, Thank you. The magnitude of the devastation across the entire fire front is hard to comprehend, let alone believe, and I have fought bushfires in the past, but nothing like this. As is being reported, the worst natural disaster in Australia's history, and it's not over yet. The death count and home losses will continue to climb. But, on the positive side, everything can be rebuilt and life moves on - then there is the GAAR.
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Post by robbie12 on Feb 8, 2009 19:52:39 GMT -5
So sorry Andrew, I hope that we all relay around to the best of our ability, financially from up here in SE Qld and in every other way possible, I believe that the Salvoes have started fund raising here, will certainly add whatever I can afford and perhaps a bit more to the effort, best wishes to you and yours, Alex R
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Post by paulvdberg on Feb 9, 2009 9:46:17 GMT -5
No snow here in Holland (melts away if it falls...) but enough amazing sad footage of these fires down in Oz. Brave people that have lost everything but eachother... unthinkable! And on the North East side the floods?! Australia sure takes a hit this winter / summer.
Andrew said: " ...the worst natural disaster in Australia's history,.." The sad thing is that some fires are deliberately started by some sicko's who can't stop playing with matches... Little 'natural' about that!
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Post by budsbud on Feb 9, 2009 14:06:12 GMT -5
Andrew And I tought that I had problems…ha. Our heart bleeds for you all down under. No use saying that we understand for we don’t.. Here in Florida we have 72 F sunny skies but little or no rain so I hope that our usual rain can be directed down to OZ.
Bud
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