From a radio point of view there is an interesting story on the SMH about how a couple of walkie talkies were stollen on the Superman movie being shot in Sydney. I may know the people who are hiring the devices to the movie. Anyway, they were stolen, and the prankters have been then yelling out commands at the wrong times.

As an example of the size of the event, for the Olympics my team hired out something like a few hundred walkie talkies. There were over 500 for Ironman. Etc. Even with cellphones walkie talkies are useful. In fact, you cannot rely on cellphones for big events… But you can rely on your walkie talkies.

And thankfully for the Sydney Olympics no-one seemed to know our frequencies. They knew most of the other ones, but not the ones being used for the external events.

And to rival Richard’s plane, I have decided to build myself one… But I have decided on a Bell 47 helicopter. You can see more about it here. What I must say is that I would be happy to get into this one if they will let me, and operate it. Looks safe enough for me…