April 13.
Fellow DC9 lovers,today is April 13. Today is exactly 42 years ago that VH-CZB & VH-TJJ arrived in Australia. In 1967 Harold Holt was PM,decimal currency was only just over 1 year in operation,man still hadn't landed on the moon,colour TV was still many years away,waste transfer stations were called dumps & indigenous Australians were known as aborigines. Voting age was 21,yet 19 year old kids were being sent to Vietnam. Anyhoo,the DC9 was certainly a great addition to the fleets,lasting 22 years. Great aeroplane.