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CGQ's
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26-Dec-14 |
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I made
the following post on the AusSoaring website re CQC's
last flying day on Sunday 21-Dec-14 ...
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From: brisglide@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:32 PM
Subject: IS-28B CQC's last flying day:
To: aus-soaring
Yesterday
was the last day of flying for Caboolture Gliding
Club's IS-28B two seater "Charlie Quebec
Charlie".
A
total of 28 members and guests took final flights in
her on the day!
Quite
appropriately, the honour of taking the last flight
was awarded by the CGC Committee to Bert Persson
(who purchased her as a wreck from
Alice Springs
and completely refurbished her for a second life
with Caboolture Gliding Club) and Lindsay Mitchell
(who has been the backbone of the maintenance team
during CQC's life at CGC).
It
is very frustrating and disappointing that, as a
result of paperwork not being in place prior to the
manufacturer going out of business, there is no
avenue available to extending her 35 year
airworthiness life when there are so many examples
of much older gliders that can have their
airworthiness life extended ad infinitum.
Regards,
Kevin
Rodda
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The
quantum and variety of responses over the last few
days has been amazing ... with the topic going off in tangents that included old versus new gliders,
training in old gliders, maintenance of old gliders,
flight characteristics, spin training, etc,
etc. However,
the best response (at least in my view) was received
today as follows ...
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From: James
Dutschke
To:
aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net
Date: Thu,
25 Dec 2014 21:37:58 +1030
Subject: Re:
IS-28B CQC's last flying day:
I
consulted Santa on the spin characteristics of a
sleigh during his visit last night.
We
spoke at length and he cited one example where Donner
and Blitzen weren't pulling their weight. This
combined with the large payload he was carrying (must
have been early in the night), and some slack loading
by the elves, led to a rearward centre of gravity,
asymmetric loading and asymmetric thrust.
In
the resulting spin he fell back on his training during his annual currency flight conducted
in the European summer.
As
reindeer are unavailable during summer the only
substitutes available are horses. And as horses are
not endorsed for pulling the sleigh under the new CASA
part 61 regulations, he was forced to have the horses
draw a suitable replacement ... a 1932 Zeppelin.
Kindest
regards and a merry (drawing rapidly to a close)
Christmas.
James
Dutschke
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(Santa's
reindeer
are
named Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid,
Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph)
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