TAA and the DC-9
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The diesel was scheduled for natural retirement before but coincident with the end of the 2 Airline Policy.
Anything else that happened about the same time was purely an accident of timing, not operational design.
tipsy
Anything else that happened about the same time was purely an accident of timing, not operational design.
tipsy
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From: Devonport Tasmania Australia
In reply to D.Lam's post.
The TQ registrations from TQN onwards were used for the Fokker F27 Quick Change 200 series (with some series vaiations within).
The TF rego was used for TFA thru TFM with TFA through to at least TFG being 100 series, TFH was a strange beast as the rego appearered on several aeroplanes, one of which was East West delivered I believe, and TFM was a pure Quick Change 200 series.
TFL and TFW (the latter sourced from All Nippon) were 200 series with no QC door, and TQS and TQT were QC's with the cargo door but no roller mats fitted. These generally were in BNE or DRW base and were seldom seen in Southern climes except when a C or D check was required. There were 150's and 600's in the mix somewhere but they were generally referred as 100 and 200 series.
TFB which was lost with all aboard off Mackay was actually the first delivered, continuing a poor record for "first of type" with TN, as TFA was delayed in delivery being retrofitted with wx radar.
Best all
EWL
The TQ registrations from TQN onwards were used for the Fokker F27 Quick Change 200 series (with some series vaiations within).
The TF rego was used for TFA thru TFM with TFA through to at least TFG being 100 series, TFH was a strange beast as the rego appearered on several aeroplanes, one of which was East West delivered I believe, and TFM was a pure Quick Change 200 series.
TFL and TFW (the latter sourced from All Nippon) were 200 series with no QC door, and TQS and TQT were QC's with the cargo door but no roller mats fitted. These generally were in BNE or DRW base and were seldom seen in Southern climes except when a C or D check was required. There were 150's and 600's in the mix somewhere but they were generally referred as 100 and 200 series.
TFB which was lost with all aboard off Mackay was actually the first delivered, continuing a poor record for "first of type" with TN, as TFA was delayed in delivery being retrofitted with wx radar.
Best all
EWL
Nice stuff "Flava Saver"....but..... I'm sure you know to which footage I refer
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From: gold coast QLD australia
Hanoi, The great Larry Blackman, got me out of the cot, at 0300 to help him rescue a horse that had fallen into a stormwater drain in Lae, after heaving and shoving with the help of four more TN pilots and two police boys, the ungrateful animal was slowly got back on his feet, and battered, bruised and beaten I made my way home, thankful I was only on standby, when sure enough crewing rang with, "Blackman can't fly he has done his back in, something about a horse" you will have to do his Charters Madang! I was ready to kill the bas#ard! 
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Oh Treesa!
Poor bloody horse couldn't help fallin' in the barret. Fancy wantin' to kill it.
Ha ha.
Wonder how many of us fell in barrets ot one time or another.
Sorta off the topic but old Captain Drama from Patair told a story about himself.
Drama would have been No. 1 in TAA if the ex RAAF lads at the top were a bit more broad minded in the late forties.
Drama preferred gents to ladies.
Couldn't have "THAT sort" in TAA.
Drama had been down at Madang hotel for a long evening of genial company.
At rather a late hour he decided to walk back to the mess.
Was striding out along the road past the golf course (prob'ly marchin' in time to a Chune he was whistling while rememberin' the great old days when he was a Wingco in the RAAF and didn't have dumb F.Os who couldn't do a thing right) when he stumbled and fell.
Luckily he was alone and no one saw this shameful exhibition.
Got up and fell over again, tearin' his trousers and damaging a knee on the coronus surface.
Sat on the road for a while, while the world spinned.
After a rest, got up and continued his homeward journey, deciding to maybe take the pledge.
Gettin' old and unable to hold his booze. Not good to become one of those dried up old New Guinea "alkeys" who talked to themselves.
Hid the daks and then slept it off .
Next morning at breakfast he got a bit of a surprise when the subject of last nights GOURIA came up.
Felt greatly relieved and didn't take the pledge.
Drama was one of those blokes with many tens of thousands of hours in the DC-3.
Poor bloody horse couldn't help fallin' in the barret. Fancy wantin' to kill it.
Ha ha.
Wonder how many of us fell in barrets ot one time or another.
Sorta off the topic but old Captain Drama from Patair told a story about himself.
Drama would have been No. 1 in TAA if the ex RAAF lads at the top were a bit more broad minded in the late forties.
Drama preferred gents to ladies.
Couldn't have "THAT sort" in TAA.
Drama had been down at Madang hotel for a long evening of genial company.
At rather a late hour he decided to walk back to the mess.
Was striding out along the road past the golf course (prob'ly marchin' in time to a Chune he was whistling while rememberin' the great old days when he was a Wingco in the RAAF and didn't have dumb F.Os who couldn't do a thing right) when he stumbled and fell.
Luckily he was alone and no one saw this shameful exhibition.
Got up and fell over again, tearin' his trousers and damaging a knee on the coronus surface.
Sat on the road for a while, while the world spinned.
After a rest, got up and continued his homeward journey, deciding to maybe take the pledge.
Gettin' old and unable to hold his booze. Not good to become one of those dried up old New Guinea "alkeys" who talked to themselves.
Hid the daks and then slept it off .
Next morning at breakfast he got a bit of a surprise when the subject of last nights GOURIA came up.
Felt greatly relieved and didn't take the pledge.
Drama was one of those blokes with many tens of thousands of hours in the DC-3.
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From: gold coast QLD australia
Sixtiesrelic, I knew that there were a few that batted for both sides, but have to say most of the TN boys in New Guinea were skirt chasers. You are correct to say that most of us also at one stage or another fell into those bloody drains after a night at the old QF mess, but I think Blackman spent more time in them than most of us. (How else would you find a horse at 0300)?
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From: Mydadsbag
Did the TAA DC-9 actually get painted into the Australian Airlines colour scheme?
727, A300 and 737 were painted in Australian Airlines colours.
DC9 didn't get to see the blue, green and gold!
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Probably an easy one - but given the small size of the pic, can you guess where? My lack of camera skills makes the view outside look a bit blurry - although I seem to remember a number of first legs in the morning were that way anyway!!!
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Zlin 77 Rocky is right - nice approach 120kts V/S -700
VAN 3 (?) DME counting down, Nice Collins FD108 ADI. Great big stall light not on!
Thanks E-W Loco for the rego info. After the F27's were retired some of the TF rego's went to Tillair in the NT - mainly on Cessna Conquests (TFG,TFB)
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From: Out West
Yeah!
Hard to believe I took that pic 22 years ago. And the -9 is still my all time favourite....... I can remember departing Mackay/Rocky on some early winters morning in the fog .... after lining up and counting and reporting to the tower that we could see the required number of runway lights .... and leveling off just on top of the fog top, accelerating in almost absolute silence and tucking the slats and flaps away on the way to 300 kts or thereabouts before pulling up into the rising sun for the climb.........
or managing to pull of a greaser from a Flap 50 landing.... etc.etc
Hard to believe I took that pic 22 years ago. And the -9 is still my all time favourite....... I can remember departing Mackay/Rocky on some early winters morning in the fog .... after lining up and counting and reporting to the tower that we could see the required number of runway lights .... and leveling off just on top of the fog top, accelerating in almost absolute silence and tucking the slats and flaps away on the way to 300 kts or thereabouts before pulling up into the rising sun for the climb.........
or managing to pull of a greaser from a Flap 50 landing.... etc.etc
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From: Brisbane
I don't think anyone addressed that question about three crew in the nine.
TAA had three for a very short time when the kerfuffle about flight engineers was on, while AnsettANA blokes went on strike if my memory serves.
I was young then and nowhere old enough to be in great big planes, but I remember being told by one of the cramped blokes who reckoned three was too many.
That was in the days when they rotated to 22 degrees ANU and couldn't see over the nose.
TAA had three for a very short time when the kerfuffle about flight engineers was on, while AnsettANA blokes went on strike if my memory serves.
I was young then and nowhere old enough to be in great big planes, but I remember being told by one of the cramped blokes who reckoned three was too many.
That was in the days when they rotated to 22 degrees ANU and couldn't see over the nose.