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Old 04-12-2019, 03:43 PM   #32
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Default Re: Tire changers, do you use the DIY units?

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Originally Posted by updraught View Post
I was watching a video recently about a couple of guys that went out, in recent times in 4wds, looking for the remains of the "Kookaburra" a plane which disappeared here in 1929.

They had to go about 30 k's thru the Tanami Desert (fairly open country, but can be deadly as it all looks the same).

If I remember the figures right, they got 240 punctures going there, and 290 going back.
Dick Smith with some other adventurers finally found the Kookaburra and recovered it from it's resting place in 1978.

He went on to set some records flying his Bell Jet Ranger after he learned to fly it.

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