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"Badwater Bill" wrote in message
.. . I'm going to. I'll be in Melbourne in September this year. Where are you? BWB Will we get a full report? I hope so. I enjoy your writing. I'm hoping to get an Australian PR and move to the Melbourne area. I'm wondering about the extent of experimental/homebuilt activities downunda. Looks pretty sparse from what I've been able to track down. -- Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is. What blindness. What unintelligent leadership. A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity, crashing headlong against each other, compelled by an orgy of greed and brutality. The time must come my friend, when this orgy will spend itself. When brutality and the lust for power, must perish by its own sword. -Lost Horizon, 1936 |
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On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:14:56 GMT, "geo" wrote:
"Badwater Bill" wrote in message . .. I'm going to. I'll be in Melbourne in September this year. Where are you? BWB Will we get a full report? I hope so. I enjoy your writing. I'm hoping to get an Australian PR and move to the Melbourne area. I'm wondering about the extent of experimental/homebuilt activities downunda. Looks pretty sparse from what I've been able to track down. Thanks. I've got a lot more I can write about that three years. Most of it would get me in law suits however. That was a scruffy crowd of guys. They were some of the best of the best, but damn they were a hard group of men. I'll write some more about it soon. I was sick last week and laid up here. I don't have a hell of a lot of time to write anymore. As far as Australia goes, I'll be picking up an RV-6 with a buddy in an RV-8 in Bendigo north of Melbourne in Sept and touring the entire country with Boom Boom for a month, including Tasmania. I'm giving a big talk in Bendigo to some flight organization on Saturday Sept. 11th if you are in country. The talk will be mostly about the stuff I've flown throughout my life, and the airplanes I flew, and what we used them for...all unclassified of course. If you are interested let me know and I'll tell you the place and times. BWB |
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Hi Bill,
I'm up in sunny Brisbane, about 1200 miles north of Melbourne. Cheers, Brett "Badwater Bill" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 19:29:50 +1000, "BRO" wrote: Bill, When you write your book, I'll buy the first copy. Come visit Australia sometime. Same goes for the rest of you grumpy old beggers. Rgds, Brett I'm going to. I'll be in Melbourne in September this year. Where are you? BWB |
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Bill,
I'd love to see your itinerary, Cheers, "Badwater Bill" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:14:56 GMT, "geo" wrote: "Badwater Bill" wrote in message . .. I'm going to. I'll be in Melbourne in September this year. Where are you? BWB Will we get a full report? I hope so. I enjoy your writing. I'm hoping to get an Australian PR and move to the Melbourne area. I'm wondering about the extent of experimental/homebuilt activities downunda. Looks pretty sparse from what I've been able to track down. Thanks. I've got a lot more I can write about that three years. Most of it would get me in law suits however. That was a scruffy crowd of guys. They were some of the best of the best, but damn they were a hard group of men. I'll write some more about it soon. I was sick last week and laid up here. I don't have a hell of a lot of time to write anymore. As far as Australia goes, I'll be picking up an RV-6 with a buddy in an RV-8 in Bendigo north of Melbourne in Sept and touring the entire country with Boom Boom for a month, including Tasmania. I'm giving a big talk in Bendigo to some flight organization on Saturday Sept. 11th if you are in country. The talk will be mostly about the stuff I've flown throughout my life, and the airplanes I flew, and what we used them for...all unclassified of course. If you are interested let me know and I'll tell you the place and times. BWB |
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On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:45:03 +1000, "BRO"
wrote: Hi Bill, I'm up in sunny Brisbane, about 1200 miles north of Melbourne. Cheers, Brett We'll be going through Brisbane on our way back south from Cairnes (Cans). I'm looking forward to diving off the great Barrier Reef up there. The last cool dive I did was the Cayman Wall. I was talking to the dive master a month ago on the boat when we did the dive. He told me a month earlier some Yuppie went over the wall at 120 feet and kept descending. He never hit the compressed air button to inflate his buoyancy compensato (BC). He just kept getting squeezed and started sinking faster and faster as he went down into the abyss. The dive master followed him at full speed to 160 feet before he gave up and turned around. Even then the dive master decompressed at 15 feet for 30 minutes before he came up. One of the other dive masters on the boat took him down a second tank so he could decompress appropriately. The Yuppie is fish food to say the least. I heard a story similar to that off Cairnes six months ago. But then some of the dive masters are nuts too. I was diving in Aruba three months ago and our bottom time exceeded the Navy dive tables by three minutes. The stupid dive master took everyone up to the surface. I grabbed Boom Boom and held her back on the anchor line at 15 feet for 15 minutes to decompress. Jesus, the nearest recompression chamber from Aruba is Miami. These guys are nuts. The PADI tables are really conservative compared to the Navy dive tables. If you dive the Navy tables to the letter, you will still get the benz 3% of the time. The PADI tables are more conservative than that. Anyway, I hear that they lose some out there off Cairnes (Cans) each year. What do you think? Are you a diver? BWB |
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There is a famous 'home movie' shot in the White House in which Nixon played while Ella Fitzgerald sang. Also, after the 1960 election Nixon played for an appearance on the Tonight Show. Afterwards when asked if he would ever run for President again he repied "No, the last thing this country needs is another piano player in the White House." Nixon would have been a great President, if only he had been honest. BBWWWAAHHAHAHHHAHHAAA Yeah. I agree. BWB |
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