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Old 4th Nov 2001, 17:53
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Hugh:- It's 00:50, 05Nov., let me be the first to wish your dad "Many Happy Returns". I'm on night shift again, roll on 07:00, but I at least still have a job with AN.

Lame:- As Gaunty said, "keep 'em coming", PPRuNE wouldn't be the same without your input, although I'm somewhat surprised that you admit to having once been an AN person, considering how much you now appear to loath the name.

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Lame seems to be catering for a need, so by all means let him continue. But could I suggest that we have a generic "Oz Aviation News" thread, or even a forum, into which all these headlines could be placed? Especially now that we've got an "On This Day" going, which by definition has no end.

It's getting difficult to find a thread that doesn't start off with a post from a newpaper. Mind you, if that's what people want, then I'll just shut up and withdraw.
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Thanks for the best wishes, guys.

From AIRCRAFT, November 1967:

SYDNEY-MELBOURNE Airport Battle
The Sydney-Melbourne airport battle flares up occasionally, but if Sydney doesn't watch out Melbourne will get a new airport only about ten minutes, as the traffic crawls, from the GPO. It is the old Fishermen's Bend airfield and Captain Jack Ellis is leading the fight to have it retained for use by commuter airlines. The three charter firms given licences for Victoria's third-level services that link 12 towns with Melbourne calculate that the old airfield would really cut city to city travel time.

Hey, this is fun But I got to go to work.
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Mental note... go nowhere near a DC3 on November the 3rd......

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TheNightOwl,

I spent almost 28 years with Ansett, from just out of high school in Feb 1963 until I resigned to go to Compass in November 1990. I do NOT hate Ansett, have many good memories of the Ansett of those days, BUT that is NOT the Ansett of recent years.

Binoculars,

As I said, no more of the "on this day", unless someone else wants to do it??

Hugh Jarse,

Did a bit of searching the net on that Susan Jones/Ansett-ANA advertisement. I did not realise but the singer on those ads, just starting out then, is now a VERY famous singer......

WHO??????? (no prizes though )

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Chuck...

As far as RDL is concerned, it just goes to show you can't take off in a Bandit with the handbrake on no matter how pi$$ed/Hungover you are
And thanks to the gent in question we ALL know it now... Still, he DID try hard and, let's face it, at least it wasn't one of those :- "Geez, I forgot about the tie-downs" things.
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Yeah! Good bit o' kit that park brake handle..sticks into your left knee if it's on...at last if you're tall like me

What was that immortal quote from Uncle Dennis?

"Geez... ya can't drown the C**t, ya can't burn the C**T...better sack the C**t!!!

Chuckles.

PS so he became CP of Dennis' Solomon Operation....that's looking after the old blokes!!!!
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Chuckles, I asked Shags who was Ops Manager POM at the time, why he let *** fly in that state.

Shags replied "Geeze, I've seen him fly far worse than that......!"

To my knowledge his score was one C206 in the Ramu, the Porter at Karimui, the amphibious Baron at Lae and the burnt Bandit at POM. Not including the legendary Porter incident and the one finger salute at the Nadzab tower!
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Lame

The singer in the Susan Jones adverts was (then) Johnny Farnham. We all know where he is today but where is the lovely Susan Jones?
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Fris B. Fairing,

Correct about the singer.....

Do not know about Susan, anyone out there have any info?

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I think Slasher used to knock around with her
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A producer by the name of David McKay first heard Johnny Farnham on a Strings Unlimited EP and asked him to do a commercial for Ansett. He sung the Pete Best song "Susan Jones". This led to EMI offering Johnny his first record contract.
 
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Torres ... it was a constant source of wonder to me how "Shags" always managed to look so bright-eyed and business-like on the morning after the night before...

Experience, I guess!
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CC wasn't this before your time in PNG?
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Torres has the old buggah hung up his cowboy boots yet?
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OK I'll play your silly game.
Why go nowhere near a DC3 on November the 3rd?
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Hugh Jarse
I think Slasher used to knock around with her
Well if he didnt I'll betOle Flashy probably did.
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OzExpat ... Shags always looked business like. You need to have a closer look in his eyeballs to establish his true status.

Vegemite ... the Old Buggah fronted Junior's last great send off, still in cowboy boots. But I understand his license to wreak aeronautical carnage has - finally - been irrevocably revoked!
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Oliversnooze, yes a couple of years before 'my time' but it was legend still spoke of in awed terms

Chuckles.
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Torres... I never felt like getting THAT intimate with him! Besides, I'd have had to do it EVERY morning!

Chuck... "awed terms" :- Yep, that says it all!
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