It’s great to see another CAC Boomerang return to the sky with tests flights of A46-54 (VH-MHB) earlier this year.
Some great footage of this aircraft here.
Another Boomerang takes Flight
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Author Archives: Brian Grinter
Forgotten Airfields
A fascinating look at the old Schofields Airfield. BY the time I started flying training in the early 90s it was already on the way out and it closed in 1994.
Some of the history can also be found on Wikipedia.
Four-Byte Burger
A lovely bit of 80s nostalgia. This was the period when things were really taking off, we had computers we enough power to start to do some really amazing stuff. Games like Monkey Island and programs like Deluxe Paint started to show what computers were capable of.
I remember seeing this artwork reproduced in magazines, and it so typifies the era.
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
— Read on www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y
Blue Thunder
Forgotten action movies of the 1980s
This was really good. Had the scale model kit of the aircraft as a kid
Kessler Syndrome Space Debris Threatens Satellites
As the space debris (a.k.a. Kessler syndrome) challenge grows, AI and international cooperation are increasingly crucial to ensuring satellite safety.
— Read on spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-syndrome-space-debris
NSW Aerobatics Competition 2026
An exciting week of aerobatics at Narromine NSW. Managed to get first place in the Entrant category!
Neat video I put together on the Insta360 camera – will upload some photos next week.
Stray Cat Blues
How did I ever miss this?
So good – can’t believe its coming up on 13 years since Chrissy Amphlett’s passing.
Tax reform isn’t enough – Australia needs an economic reset | Pearls and Irritations
Tax reform is necessary, but on its own it cannot fix an economy shaped by housing speculation, resource dependence and weak productivity.
— Read on johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/tax-reform-is-not-enough/