G'day, Yay Team ! Thanks for posting this, I haven't been there since 2022, before the Double Decker Bus was in there ; and incidentally, that one looks to be straight off Sydney's Public Transport System in the 1960s..., I've ridden them, there, as a child. The quaint little thing you called a "Tram" out in the Carpark is also from Sydney - it's off that infamous Boondoggle, the Sydney Monorail which used to run in endless driverless Loops around the Sydney CBD from Centennial Park to Darling Harbour. It was both unreliable and installed to provide a service which nobody ever wanted... Toddlers and infants were impressed though, at least my son was, when he was 7. I had a second-hand modified Toyota Stout, in the early 1990s, bought from a mate who'd given it a Holden Red Motor, running on LPG or Petrol, with a 3-speed Automatic Box (which lost a Vaccumn Line, and duly died, being replaced by a 4-speed manual unit) ; but to fit the 6-inline Motor he had to pull the Dashboard to modify the firewall - and rather than replace it as-was, he fabricated lookalike Helicopter Instrument Panel featuring all kinds of mil.surp. Aircraft Switches & minutiae - the Fuse-Box was a Magneto-Cover off a Rolls Royce Merlin, branded RR for example..., and a 12-inch leatherbound Momo Steering-Wheel..., tillering 28-inch Wheels with no Power-Steering (Parking was a real workout). And, I added a working Airspeed Indicator & an Altimeter - to complete the theme ; because they were spare, and available... If you search my "Mad Scientist Videos" Playlist for, "The Toyota Helicopter Stout...", then it should come up... However..., I clicked onto this, as soon as I spotted it in the feed, hoping to view your reaction to, "The 8-Hp, 1975, Red Baron Skycraft Scout ; World's 1st Legal Minimum-Aircraft !" but all you did was to Pan slowly past it..., Speechlessly (!). Which was, frankly, a bit of a bummer. Y'see..., I was it's 3rd owner. It was my first Aeroplane. It took me for my first Solo flight, when I was 17 - when I'd had 35 minutes Dual Instruction (25 in a 1946 Piper Cub & 10 in a 1936 DeHavilland Hornet Moth)...., 2 months before the Scout took me up off the grass Runway at Bowral, on 19 November 1978. I'm the last person to have ever flown it... The above Video Title will get you the Backstory - showing old photos & the papertrail, which I posted in 2011... It's in my "Personal Aeroplanology..." Playlist, as well as, "National Transportation Museum ; Visiting My First Aeroplane...!" I was pretty crook back in June '22, making the pilgrimage...; before starting treatment for the "Lumpy Neck Syndrome" which was peeking out from behind my beard - and nowadays I'm a toothless, tastless, mangy-lookin' recovering Zombie kinda thing. But by the look of it I need to go back over to Inverell and offer to help them re-rig the Scout...; they've put the Horizontal Stabilators on upside-down when they moved from the old Meat-Packing Factory to the new HUGE Climate-controlled Facility... They should be rigged "Flat" with the Horizon - but as of your video they're fitted inverted and the Bracing Wires are different lengths - the long ones should be on top....(!). They must've scored a Federal Grant (?), because in the old building it was called the "Inverell Transport Museum", As against now, when it's become the "National Transportation Museum...". As far as I know, the other Aeroplane in there is Gordon Bedson's Single-seat "Resurgam" - with which he won the first Cross-Channel Ultralight Race, in about 1982...; it's pretty beaten up, and been bodged back together - but it doesn't appear to have been anywhere near sufficiently badly damaged as to be his 2-seat "Myagara" (the names are Latin, apparently, he was a bit pretentious - was Gordon) which literally "clapped hands overhead" at 500 ft while turning from Downwind onto his Base Leg, on it's first Test Fright, in 1984..., spearing in like a Lawn Dart.... Requisat Im Pace..., As he would say. I think the Resurgam might have been ground-looped, or hard-landed, and put aside - But before repairing it he died ; And someone else has then cobbled it up to go into the Museum - on account of it's International Overwater Air-Racing History, as a WINNER...! (?). Anyway, such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao!
Hello 👋 We're sorry for no reaction about the plane, but as you may or may not know, Ray is blind and didn't even see the planes until I showed him the footage when we got home. It really is an amazing story you have there about it however. It is a great collection and we'd happily go back again next time we pass through.
Nice work you two, how can a twin turbo ls only have 550, liked the scout remember a few from back in the day lots ov cool stuff will hae to mention that bus from tinga to my sister as she lived there for a while
Great show and a lovely couple, laid back, warm, and open. Thanks for the Tour.
Thank you so much 😊
A brilliant display, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Some beautiful automobiles there for sure
Absolutely, a fantastic transport museum that's for sure!!
Excellent view bud
Thanks 👍👍
G'day,
Yay Team !
Thanks for posting this, I haven't been there since 2022, before the Double Decker Bus was in there ; and incidentally, that one looks to be straight off Sydney's Public Transport System in the 1960s..., I've ridden them, there, as a child.
The quaint little thing you called a "Tram" out in the Carpark is also from Sydney - it's off that infamous
Boondoggle, the
Sydney Monorail which used to run in endless driverless Loops around the Sydney CBD from Centennial Park to Darling Harbour. It was both unreliable and installed to provide a service which nobody ever wanted...
Toddlers and infants were impressed though, at least my son was, when he was 7.
I had a second-hand modified Toyota Stout, in the early 1990s, bought from a mate who'd given it a Holden Red Motor, running on LPG or Petrol, with a 3-speed Automatic Box (which lost a Vaccumn Line, and duly died, being replaced by a 4-speed manual unit) ; but to fit the 6-inline Motor he had to pull the Dashboard to modify the firewall - and rather than replace it as-was, he fabricated lookalike Helicopter Instrument Panel featuring all kinds of mil.surp. Aircraft Switches & minutiae - the Fuse-Box was a Magneto-Cover off a Rolls Royce Merlin, branded RR for example..., and a
12-inch leatherbound
Momo
Steering-Wheel..., tillering 28-inch Wheels with no Power-Steering
(Parking was a real workout).
And, I added a working Airspeed Indicator & an Altimeter - to complete the theme ; because they were spare, and available...
If you search my
"Mad Scientist Videos" Playlist for,
"The Toyota Helicopter Stout...",
then it should come up...
However..., I clicked onto this, as soon as I spotted it in the feed, hoping to view your reaction to,
"The 8-Hp, 1975, Red Baron Skycraft Scout ; World's 1st Legal Minimum-Aircraft !"
but all you did was to
Pan slowly past it...,
Speechlessly (!).
Which was, frankly, a bit of a bummer.
Y'see...,
I was it's 3rd owner. It was my first Aeroplane.
It took me for my first Solo flight, when I was 17 - when I'd had 35 minutes Dual Instruction (25 in a 1946 Piper Cub & 10 in a 1936 DeHavilland Hornet Moth)...., 2 months before the Scout took me up off the grass Runway at Bowral, on 19 November 1978.
I'm the last person to have ever flown it...
The above Video Title will get you the Backstory - showing old photos & the papertrail, which I posted in 2011...
It's in my
"Personal Aeroplanology..."
Playlist, as well as,
"National Transportation Museum ; Visiting My First Aeroplane...!"
I was pretty crook back in June '22, making the pilgrimage...; before starting treatment for the "Lumpy Neck Syndrome" which was peeking out from behind my beard - and nowadays I'm a toothless, tastless, mangy-lookin' recovering Zombie kinda thing.
But by the look of it I need to go back over to Inverell and offer to help them re-rig the Scout...; they've put the Horizontal Stabilators on upside-down when they moved from the old Meat-Packing Factory to the new HUGE Climate-controlled Facility...
They should be rigged "Flat" with the Horizon - but as of your video they're fitted inverted and the Bracing Wires are different lengths - the long ones should be on top....(!).
They must've scored a Federal Grant (?), because in the old building it was called the
"Inverell Transport Museum",
As against now, when it's become the
"National Transportation Museum...".
As far as I know, the other Aeroplane in there is Gordon Bedson's Single-seat "Resurgam" - with which he won the first
Cross-Channel Ultralight Race, in about 1982...; it's pretty beaten up, and been bodged back together - but it doesn't appear to have been anywhere near sufficiently badly damaged as to be his 2-seat "Myagara" (the names are Latin, apparently, he was a bit pretentious - was Gordon) which literally "clapped hands overhead" at 500 ft while turning from Downwind onto his Base Leg, on it's first Test Fright, in 1984..., spearing in like a
Lawn Dart....
Requisat Im Pace...,
As he would say.
I think the Resurgam might have been ground-looped, or hard-landed, and put aside -
But before repairing it he died ;
And someone else has then cobbled it up to go into the Museum - on account of it's
International
Overwater
Air-Racing History, as a
WINNER...! (?).
Anyway, such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao!
Hello 👋
We're sorry for no reaction about the plane, but as you may or may not know, Ray is blind and didn't even see the planes until I showed him the footage when we got home. It really is an amazing story you have there about it however.
It is a great collection and we'd happily go back again next time we pass through.
Nice work you two, how can a twin turbo ls only have 550, liked the scout remember a few from back in the day lots ov cool stuff will hae to mention that bus from tinga to my sister as she lived there for a while
Thanks mate. I guess low boost, standard engine with no other work would get those numbers. Oh how cool 😎