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Visit to Australia

editor — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:44:00 +0000

It was difficult to work; the seaplane was hard to control, and could not be trimmed to fly level. If I took my hands off the controls for a second, it would go into a steep dive, or climb immediately. Besides the nuisance of having to nag continuously at the controls, this meant there was something wrong with the rigging – perhaps a float had been knocked out of trim. The speed indicator on the strut outboard showed that the speed had dropped to 72mph. That suggested that perhaps the propeller might be damaged – that, at least, would explain

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AUSTRALIA

editor — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:36:00 +0000

Twelve million years ago, give or take a few hundred thousand years, a piece of Antarctica broke off, drifted northward and finally stopped to become Australia. Australia is both forbidding and delightful. Roughly three-quarters of it is composed of Pre-Cambrian rock, most of it worn down by wind, rain and time, to form a vast, low-lying plateau. Even though it is the smallest of the continents, the country is one of the largest. It is almost the size of the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, yet its population is only fifteen million. Papua New Guinea, once governed by Australia,

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