"Soo did the big girl from Eenie Weenie make a reply on this proon thingy", goes the early morning phone call. If he has print it off old chap and I will think up something to outsmart him, chuckles to himself.
"Somebody liked your description of Mr R Hawke", I reply. Which he replies Hawke is a "lots of expletives used, tosser".
But on a more serious note, said gentlemen wanted to know when the DC-9's actually left Australia and who operated them, and what paint scheme they carried in the period of 1988/9?
He remembers Australian talking about and planning an airline with the DC-9 fleet to serve the Gold Coast tourist market with flights from Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Launceston. The pilots dispiute left Australian cash strapped and they shelved the idea and sold the airframes.