Could You Imagine The Clowns at QF Doing This?
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Could You Imagine The Clowns at QF Doing This?
Imagine a campaign that values staff and history...most of their recent advertising you wouldn't even know what business they were in.
Thanks for the links 'Exit' lovely to watch, a thing of the past these days sadly. Still hopefully there is a bit of that pride feeling in every pilot even these days who steps aboard a plane to fly, a feeling like no other! It's just a shame it doesn't extend up the ladder to the top. At least we have a past that we where once proud of.
Aviation in it's infancy was exciting, had a main being, to foster good will,to move people far & wide that would ultimately bring us all closer, to make the world shrink. Oh it's done that alright brought us all a lot closer but has also created a division, a division of 'them & us', the workers the management.
The plane today is just a tool, a tool to be used for the gain of a few.
Aviation is just a money making business today nothing more.
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Aviation in it's infancy was exciting, had a main being, to foster good will,to move people far & wide that would ultimately bring us all closer, to make the world shrink. Oh it's done that alright brought us all a lot closer but has also created a division, a division of 'them & us', the workers the management.
The plane today is just a tool, a tool to be used for the gain of a few.
Aviation is just a money making business today nothing more.
Wmk2
Folks,
Actually, QF have made very successful advertising campaigns only these line over the years -- print and TV.
Anybody here remember when the Avro 504 last got airborne, where, why, and who was the pilot? ---- and the stink afterwards, because the aircraft was only supposed to taxi, but the temptation was too much, and the unscripted footage was used in the advertisements.
I must say, it seems unlikely under the present management ---- as it would run counter to running mainline international services down.
Tootle pip!!
Actually, QF have made very successful advertising campaigns only these line over the years -- print and TV.
Anybody here remember when the Avro 504 last got airborne, where, why, and who was the pilot? ---- and the stink afterwards, because the aircraft was only supposed to taxi, but the temptation was too much, and the unscripted footage was used in the advertisements.
I must say, it seems unlikely under the present management ---- as it would run counter to running mainline international services down.
Tootle pip!!
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Don't know when the last Avro to get airborne was, but the one you are referring to was the War Memorial aircraft which was restored by QF apprentices in Hangar 11 at Mascot in the late sixties.
If my memory serves me correctly the pilot was supposed to have a taxi around in front of hangar 96 for the cameras, a gust of wind might have suddenly caused it become airborne momentarily, dunno, the pilot was some bloke named Sir Hudson Fysh apparently he'd had flown an Avro 504K previously.
If my memory serves me correctly the pilot was supposed to have a taxi around in front of hangar 96 for the cameras, a gust of wind might have suddenly caused it become airborne momentarily, dunno, the pilot was some bloke named Sir Hudson Fysh apparently he'd had flown an Avro 504K previously.
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G'day Capt Gidday,
Happy to be proven wrong, from dim dark memory the story goes that the lift off featured in that advertisement was chroma keyed from the original late sixties Huddy "flight" at Mascot.
Happy to be proven wrong, from dim dark memory the story goes that the lift off featured in that advertisement was chroma keyed from the original late sixties Huddy "flight" at Mascot.
