Got woken up by a video call from the wife sitting on the back deck in the sunshine with my dog, bunch of gel blaster parcels sitting on the table in front of her … still not sure if she did that just to rub it in a little
@BME If you’re flying my 737 home on Saturday, make sure you put your foot down, hey? Or should that be hand down?
Seems it’s not just the instruction sheets we get with our blasters that are written in “Engrish”… same guy must have jagged a job designing the AI software for Youtube.
Another Taipan in the drink, another 4 ADF soldiers dead. On an exercise training with German, Japanese, American, Indonesian, New Zealand, PNG, Fiji, France, South Korea, Tonga and ole mate UK here for Talisman Sabre EX
This shit has been going on for over 5 years I swear. Former defence minister Peter Dutton had selected current new build Blackhawks to replace them and bin those Taipan piles of shit 2 friggin years ago. Fk me one Taipan crahsed in the drink earlier this year, now another, now they are all grounded and media is still rambling on about a software update problem that didn’t get done 5 fucking years ago.
You’d think with Austin and Blinken here during Talisman Sabre on talks about us building super dooper missiles for the US they could spare 40 new build Blackhawks so we can scrap that euro trash that was designed to operate in minus 10C not 40+c. The whole wiring harness is trashed in Taipan, running gear needs replacement, then the airframe itself needs rebuilding as it’s cracking and fucked. Throw that shit in the bin.
Fk me we are still operating Blackhawks we bought in the 80’s in to the early 90’s was the last delivered with minimal mechanical failure and easy plentiful parts supply chain. Few pilot errors and shit happens but they are a proven rig. Must be, only fucking helicopter that the ADF can fly at the moment that is 30+ years old.
This current gov is fucked in the head bumbling around like fking idiots. While killing their own employees because of their incompetency. Typical of the current, they are called that for a reason.
Oh I forgot to remind people that a Taipan lit NSW on fire with it’s landing light on in grass dropping some CFS head sherangs off which ended up being that big one that jumped states and ultimately that C130 Hercules fire bomber that crashed and all 3 US operators died.
A week in a state where gel blasters are illegal and I was itching to get home so I could get on with a build in progress and mash some gels into a few targets.
It’s normal for a pure hobbyist.
I have the almost opposite problem, where I try to make a couple days in a row a month where I don’t work on them, to have that effect. Longing makes the heart grow fonder or some shit