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This morning I was listening to music on my radio. The music was mainly orchestral and the radio is mono. The thought struck me what a wonderful device the radio's speaker is. It can reproduce the wide range of pitch and tone produced by a number if instruments playing at the same time simply by an electrical current causing a fibre cone to vibrate.

I use the free version for a quick check to see what's making the noise overhead. Most of teh heavies are heading to China and Korea. It is a funny route. A straight line from Sydney to just southeast of my place, then a bit of a right hand turn to pass over the top of me at 30,000 ft. I like to use he program to see what the odd flights are. A lot of RFDS transport flights.

I suspect that hybrids will win out. Both my kids have them. My son's big ute is a hybrid with a 1.5 litre petrol generator engine. I think the claimed fuel consumption is about 2 litres/100km. The ability to recharge the battery 'on-the-go' seems to me to be the big advantage of hybrids

10/10 overcast this morning (Saturday). The cloudbase is too high to produce rain. 45% humidity at 26C. Wind calm with the occasion puff.

I remember my Dad saying that if fuel ever got to 50c a litre, he'd sell the car and buy a horse. He didn't, of course, but shows what it used to cost. Mind you, I was probably about 10 then so that would be in 1982. House prices (and wages) were a lot less than 1/4 of today's, so fuel hasn't risen in price as much as other things.

A Japanese gentleman was visiting the United States for the first time. He’d seen America on television for years and was excited to finally experience it in person. On the last day of his trip, he climbed into a taxi and asked the driver to take him to the airport. As they drove along the highway, a Honda zoomed past the cab. The man leaned toward the window, clapped his hands, and exclaimed: “Ahh! Honda — very fast! Made in Japan!” A few minutes later, a Toyota flew by. Again, he leaned out excitedly and said: “Toyota — very fast! Made in Japan!” Soon after that, a Mitsubishi sped past them. Once again, the man smiled proudly and shouted: “Mitsubishi — very fast! Made in Japan!” By now, the taxi driver was getting a little irritated… but he kept quiet and continued driving. Finally, they arrived at the airport. The driver stopped the car and said, “That’ll be $300.” The Japanese gentleman’s eyes went wide. “Three hundred dollars?! That’s very expensive!” The taxi driver smiled and replied: “Meter — very fast. Made in Japan.”

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When most company stations, BP, Shell, etc., or 7 Eleven were at $2.19 or $2.29 per litre, I filled up at a small independent station at $1.79 per litre. While all pumps were busy, there were no queues. As one car pulled out, another pulled in. With the small number of km's I do, that full tank should do me for about 3 weeks.

Yeah seen reports , l know there's many and any can say whichever which way you thinks playing out . But they've said this is all actually playing into Bunker dweller Putes hands and he'll be getting good money for his oil again. Sooo, he'll be able to keep financing the war. Great ! Personally, l reckon This is all gonna turn into the biggest Trump shyt show yet.

And Trump has announced India can buy Russian oil without any sanction because arab supplies are limited. Its just getting more clear what Trump values.

I tapped the history icon on the screen menu, entered the date and time (4 March, 17:20Z) and it replayed the flights around that time. If you tap on the aircraft symbol on the map it brings up all the aircraft details. One flight left Perth and headed to Singapore and passed the incoming aircraft which I assume was the one you heard.

Here you go OT. Flight Radar 24 historic flights. Untitled 552.mp4

I am not sure if you can do that or not on the free versions of FR24 or Flight Aware but there is a site run by Air Services Australia called WebTrak. II think its main purpose is for reporting aircraft noise. You can go back 3 months, I think, only for capital cities, though https://www.airservicesaustralia.com/community/environment/aircraft-noise/webtrak/

O.K., that's good info - but if you don't have a flight number, tail number, airline, or any of those details, how do you just find a mystery aircraft that flew overhead last night?

You can also type an aircraft's registration on FlightAware for example VH-*** for historic data.

The Welsh wording actually says, "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work for translation".

This was my last flight from Adelaide to Melbourne Untitled 551.mp4

I can't see where to acquire that free search for past flights on FlightAware. I can only find a button that says "buy data" (for big $$$).

FlightAware allows you to search for past flights for free

Your not correct on Toyota's position, they are still going gangbusters, and it's largely due to hybrids. They picked that EV's uptake would be slow, and that hybrids could fill in in the meantime, and that's where they're winning. https://www.drive.com.au/news/toyota-breaks-global-sales-record-tops-2025-charts-for-sixth-year-running/

The free version only limits historical data retrieval to 7 days, which is pretty reasonable. I have an adblocker on the PC so I only use FR24 on my phone.

If you close the ad I think it takes you to the subscription page. I suspect this is what is happening. The free version is sponsored by an ad. Here is how I use this app Untitled 549.mp4

But no flight tracking website give you historical data without you paying for it, anyway? So it's a waste of time trying to find out what flew overhead last night, as I'd still have to pay, to acquire the info. I can see flights moving on the site, but it's only current information. If I click off the ad-blocker warning overlay, the site defaults to the paid subscription page that rgmwa just gave a screenshot of.

Maybe that's why Vladimir is so quiet on all this. If China can't source that oil from Iran, Russia will pick it up. Money to be made. He might also pick up some oil trade to China to replace their Venezuela imports. Last year more than half of Venezuelan exports went to China. From Vlad's perspective - lose a couple of allies, but gain a heap of money.