Aircraft Tyre Pressure Guide
Below is a guide table of common tyre and rim sizes and their recommended pressures and loads. Please, always consult with the specific...
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Greg Sendall
- Mar 22, 2022
- 4 min
Australias First Powered Flight
We decided to touch on something slightly different today, and reflect on the first powered flight in Australia which officially occurred...
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Greg Sendall
- Feb 22, 2022
- 5 min
Aircraft Batteries
Like car batteries, aircraft batteries serve to start the engines or the APU. But the comparison stops there as aircraft are required to...
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Greg Sendall
- Feb 19, 2022
- 5 min
Get-there-itis
With get-there-itis contributing to a huge number of aviation related fatalities, we thought we would share this informative article from...
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Greg Sendall
- Feb 1, 2022
- 6 min
Aircraft Tyres
Anyone who has ever watched an airliner land and noticed the puff of blue smoke that appears the moment the wheels spin up from zero to...
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Greg Sendall
- Jan 18, 2022
- 2 min
Scimitar Blades
First, a bit of background. In the early 1900's, French aeronautical inventor Lucien Chauviere saw commercial success with his scimitar...
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Greg Sendall
- Jan 15, 2022
- 6 min
Propeller Testing Results
For the past few months, John Gilpin from www.stolspeed.com has been testing 3 of our Meglin propellers (3-blade 72", 3-blade 70" and...
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Greg Sendall
- Dec 14, 2021
- 1 min
Va reduction with weight reduction
By now, a large majority of you would have seen the video of the Embraer EMB-202A agricultural aircraft that experienced an inflight...
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Greg Sendall
- Dec 7, 2021
- 2 min
Talking on the radio
Tuesday touchpoint: Talking on the radio. Its getting to that time of the year where more people are starting to head skyward, whether it...
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Greg Sendall
- Nov 30, 2021
- 3 min
Tuesday Touchpoint: CASA Changes to flight operations regulations
In two days’, on the 2nd of December, CASA are introducing new and amended regulations in regards to operations and flight rules, as well...
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Greg Sendall
- Nov 23, 2021
- 3 min
The deadly base leg to final turn.
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about skids and slips, and the implications of a skidding turn onto final. We found a great article from...
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Greg Sendall
- Nov 16, 2021
- 2 min
Flying with Passengers
Tuesday Touchpoint: One of the most exciting things about getting a pilot’s licence, besides the freedom, is getting to share your...
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Greg Sendall
- Nov 9, 2021
- 2 min
Slips vs Skids
During some ‘hangar talk’ recently, beside all the usual war stories, came a discussion around slips and skids; the differences between...
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Greg Sendall
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
2 blade vs 3 blade propellers - which is better for LSA?
You might have heard the saying, 2 to go, 3 for show. But for light aircraft, what is really better: 2 blades or 3? It goes without...
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