TAA and the DC-9

[GE90115BL2]

I know this is about the DC-9 but I came across this TWA 727-200 flight sim on youtube using an x TWA 727-200 cockpit.

It's pretty good.

YouTube - PROJECT 727 - PART I - BOEING 727-200 COCKPIT TOUR

Now maybe they could make it a TAA or Ansett one? that would be good

[GE90115BL2]

Just bringing this back to the top..........................

[James4th]

My Gonads

Dont worry fantome, I have a spare (almost new) pair hanging in the closet; you never know when they might be needed these days!

Cheers,

Jimmie,

[Fantome]

Gentleman, this is actually Mrs. Jimmie writing and I do apologise for gate crashing but I just had to tickle the keyboards and thank you all so much for this wonderful thread. You have made me laugh with all your fantastic and oh so funny, politically incorrect stories, (keep them coming!) and your amazing OH&S less tales, (keep them coming!)

c'mon . . .. . not right, refusing a lady.

[Fantome]

However, when you managed to keep up with her, the -9 became a real joy. Four sectors SY-CB-SY-CB-SY, resulting, often as not, in not much more than two hours to add to the log book, could be quite a workout. You knew you'd mastered the beast when both pilots managed to eat their breakfast - separately - on the same sector, with a 35 departure from CB and a straight in aproach (R/W 07) in to SY. (I only ever managed this once, and remember the captain's name to this day, and I have to admit, it involved scoffing my meal down at a very ungentlemanly rate! The captain handed the hostie his tray at about 5,000' on finals for 07 at Sydney.)

A Wiley post, back on page 9. Puts me in mind of a bloke I used to fly with, who in later years was flying round Europe. In the earlier time, Jim could not, to put it mildly, abide our C/P, Colin, a pedantic, painful person with less personality than a dial tone. Anyway, there's Jim and his F/O, also from the old firm, screaming into the circuit, somewhere like Madrid, and Jim's still got his tray on his lap, finishing his lunch. F/O, doing it all virtually single-handed, says 'Eh Jim, what would be saying to Colin if he was in the jump-seat now? ' 'Pass the pepper, Colin.' (Note - Not their real names.)

We're losing something from aviation with all the automation and regulations. It's like eating fast food at a plastic dining table. It's just not the same as the individuality expressed in a home cooked meal and a wooden table. Too late to reverse the trend, even if we wanted to, but it's nice to reminisce.

. . . from Lodown, on page 58

[Fantome]

Nowt to do with the 9, but it does belong in the nostalgia bin..

[B772]

A former Ansett DC9 Captain who retired in 1975 (approx.) R A (Bob) Bennett is now 94 years young and still going strong attending lunches etc.

[OZBUSDRIVER]

This thread needs to be back on Downunda/Godzone...I forgot how much of a good read this thread has become...great ride guys

Keep it going. If ever there is a book in this, put me down for a hard cover first edition

[Stationair8]

I have started a thread on the Ansett/TAA Fokker Friendship in the DG section, should stir up a few memories!

[Pilots daughter]

anyone remember?

This is my first post so trust you experts out there will forgive any transgressions I might make.
My dad was Doug Huff and he flew a variety of aircraft from just after the war through to the mid 80,s with TAA. He is no longer with us having passed away in 2000. Would love to hear from anyone who knew my father or who perhaps flew with him and who could tell me things that Dad would never have told me!
Thanks,
Debbie Huff
PS He was a wonderful Dad

[A. Le Rhone]

Not a DC9 but the first 727....
British Pathe - AUSTRALIA HAS NEW JET FOR PASSENGER SERVICE aka AUSTRALIA: NEW JET PASSENGER SERVICE

[CharlieLimaX-Ray]

Must be a few more stories out in Ppruneland?

[Concorder]

I remember one (nameless) Captain who, when told of skin lifting on top of a wing, merely got a hammer, climbed on top of the wing, gave it a few belts, then said 'aircraft's OK, we're going'!

[Concorder]

B772

do you mean6 x 727-100s?
RMD,E,F,R,S,T?

[Concorder]

wasn't there also an F27 FNL from memory in ASP that was hijacked?

[Stationair8]

Ansett F-27 was hijacked at Alice Springs in the mid 1970's.

Wonder what the DC-9 would have looked like in the Ansett colour scheme that was unveiled in the 1980's?

[Fantome]

11th August 2008,)
bushy

Another drama that happened here in the days of the F27s was the attempted "hijack" that occured on an inbound F27. The hijacker demanded that a light aircraft meet the F27 on arrival, and bring a parachute for him.

Ossie Watt was the CFI at the aero club. He duly brought a Cessna to meet the F27. He also had a "navigator" who was a policeman.

The hijacker came out with a very unhappy flight attendant. He was shot and killed on the tarmac.

[D.Lamination]

Thanks to a bit of searching on British Pathe (prompted by A. Le Rhone #693 above )

Here are some shots of a TN DC9 and other equipment in the opening of this film - It was "Angus McMillan" - Which one was that (TJJ?)

British Pathe - PRESIDENT SARAGAT IN AUSTRALIA

[Concorder]

No Angus McMillan was TJL.

[Concorder]

re Angus McMillan

No...delamination...TJL was Angus McMillan
TJJ was Edmund Kennedy