This Date In Aviation Since 1971.....
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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.
Kind regards to all,
TheNightOwl.
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.
Kind regards to all,
TheNightOwl.
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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.
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. 
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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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 )
Best regards to ALL,
"lame"
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
)Best regards to ALL,
"lame"
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Chuck...
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.
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
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.
Grandpa Aerotart
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!!!!
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!!!!
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!
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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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!
Experience, I guess!
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!
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!
