OSW: The Sea Fury has two, contra-rotating props ?

Four blades in the early model & five later. No Contra-rotating prop that was the Gannet. Excelent vids on utube.

OSW: how any human being could possibly land a yawing, pitching and rolling aircraft, on a yawing, pitching
Carrier.

That, would have given me a Heart Attack to start with.

Poirot: and stonewalling is what he does when anyone makes a serious attempt to get to the substance of his "plan".

That's what they all do. No Politician ever answers a question directly. They deflect. That's one of the reasons I'm not supporting either of the big two. They are all BSers.

Regarding the Leigh Sales 'interview'(sic) of Malcolm Turnbull, it was more of the adversarial, 'got-cha' tabloid shock-jock, than an interview for facts by a responsible journalist.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4478428.htm

Irrespective of what side of politics one may prefer at this time, the taxpayer-funded national broadcaster is NOT doing the public any favours by patronising viewers with over-the-top accusatory interrogations by over-paid journalists who make themselves the story.

As far as many are concerned, they would like to see some respect shown to the people who volunteer to be interviewed and for the public benefit, not for humiliation for the benefit of the clowns of social media, the Twitteratti.

The PM and the Opposition Leader might be interviewed at length once or few times during a campaign. It is a damn poor show if those opportunities are going to be wasted by boofheads in interviews like that.

Sales and others like her on public and private TV, another example could be the idiotic fools like Karl Stefanovic, the 'highest-paid personality signed to an Australian television network'(!), need to step aside. They are wanted in the Colosseum of shock jocks on radio.

I wouldn't like to see Shorten or anyone else subjected to a Leigh Sales 'Look at Moi' gutless interrogation.

otb,

"Regarding the Leigh Sales 'interview'(sic) of Malcolm Turnbull, it was more of the adversarial, 'got-cha' tabloid shock-jock, than an interview for facts by a responsible journalist."

I tend to agree - that appears to Sales' stock in trade these days.

She's torn into Labor in the same fashion...however, up until last night, she's given Mal a reasonably easy time when he's appeared on 7.30.

You start by slandering Xenephon then say it's his father XenePHOU, who is the 'slum landlord'. You mention this Xenephou more than once. Surely Nick's father would spell his name the same way as is son's?

Poirot,

Leigh Sales probably was soft on Turnbull before.

Leigh Sales plummets to (tabloid) depths that were unimaginable some years ago.

Here is Bob Hawke dealing with the late Richard Carlton, who was a mere amateur at 'got-cha' tabloid journalism compared with the very highly paid 'look at moi' Leigh Sales,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRz06GrF-1I

The one with the Hitler hairdo, Emma Alberici, is just as bad and even more superficial.

I miss the in-depth articles in w'end broadsheets too.

Found an interesting thing a few minutes ago. Malta is the ONLY European country with a majority government, and we know what a mess Europe is in. Minority government is probably what we are heading for again.

Did anyone note that Turbull has clearly stated that he is "not interested in polls", although he used polls as an excuse to overthrow Abbott. Also, the polls he isn't interested in show that 40% of SA voters intend to vote for minor parties. A pity he isn't interested, eh?