Closure of YMPC, YMEN and YMMB
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Al
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah..........Thanks for the memories, they were the days, when Ansett was rooly trooly Ansett and TAA was the friendly foe.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah..........Thanks for the memories, they were the days, when Ansett was rooly trooly Ansett and TAA was the friendly foe.
er, well um, TAA was actually the good guy and Ansett the upstart but lets not quibble!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cheers Al.
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cheers Al.
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Thank you Al - a real blast from the past.
I well remember the glassed finger reaching out onto the MEB tarmac, and second ever flight was on TLCharlie - and there she was in one of the pics.
Wondeful memories of a much gentler time.
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EWL
I well remember the glassed finger reaching out onto the MEB tarmac, and second ever flight was on TLCharlie - and there she was in one of the pics.
Wondeful memories of a much gentler time.
Best regards
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Like many here I've spent lots of time at EN over the last XX years.
EWL mentioned the glassed in walkways, these I remember very well seeing as how my father built them. He also built much of the terminal, both the Ansett and the TAA jet engine test cells and the TAA Catering building. As a result of this building activity I spent many hours tagging along behind Dad as he did his 'rounds'.
My first flight out of EN was in ABH (Ansett DC3 now in the Moorabbin Museum) in 1952 and I still have my "Fledglings Flight Log" certificate.
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EWL mentioned the glassed in walkways, these I remember very well seeing as how my father built them. He also built much of the terminal, both the Ansett and the TAA jet engine test cells and the TAA Catering building. As a result of this building activity I spent many hours tagging along behind Dad as he did his 'rounds'.
My first flight out of EN was in ABH (Ansett DC3 now in the Moorabbin Museum) in 1952 and I still have my "Fledglings Flight Log" certificate.
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Speaking of things Caravellesque (which we really weren't) have you seen an ancient flic called "Fate is the Hunter"?
See if you can find it. A wonderful and analytical tale of the demise of a fictional jetliner very like the Caravelle due to some very feasible sets of circumstances.
It is as old as the hills and in living monochrome but spellbinding.
Another excellent oldie involved James Stewart and the "Reindeer" aeroplane, can't for the life of me think of the name. Was it Neville Shute's "No Highway in the Sky"?
Tango Lima Alpha is now my wallpaper, and I get a lovely flashback every time I start the puter. What a magnificent aeroplane the "Leccy" was.
As an Airline brat, it always looked like a Viscount that some hoon had hotted up. Sitting in the first class lounge in the tail looking up the huge drainpipe exhausts of the Allisons is such a fresh memory.
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EWL
Speaking of things Caravellesque (which we really weren't) have you seen an ancient flic called "Fate is the Hunter"?
See if you can find it. A wonderful and analytical tale of the demise of a fictional jetliner very like the Caravelle due to some very feasible sets of circumstances.
It is as old as the hills and in living monochrome but spellbinding.
Another excellent oldie involved James Stewart and the "Reindeer" aeroplane, can't for the life of me think of the name. Was it Neville Shute's "No Highway in the Sky"?
Tango Lima Alpha is now my wallpaper, and I get a lovely flashback every time I start the puter. What a magnificent aeroplane the "Leccy" was.
As an Airline brat, it always looked like a Viscount that some hoon had hotted up. Sitting in the first class lounge in the tail looking up the huge drainpipe exhausts of the Allisons is such a fresh memory.
Best all
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"Fate is the Hunter" I think was based on the Ernest Gann book of the same name, or at least the last section of that book where he describes his narrow escape from death due to "unporting" of an elevator.
The Neville Shute novel is "No Highway" and it certainly was the basis for the film.
Speaking of Caravelles, is there any truth in the story that TAA wanted to introduce them but Reg Ansett said "no" and given that it was in the days of the two airline policy, no it was and we got Electras instead?
The Neville Shute novel is "No Highway" and it certainly was the basis for the film.
Speaking of Caravelles, is there any truth in the story that TAA wanted to introduce them but Reg Ansett said "no" and given that it was in the days of the two airline policy, no it was and we got Electras instead?
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Memory is a bit cranky on it but the proposed Caravelle purchase was way way back before the Electra and around the Viscount days.
I think they got knocked on the head in our Anglophile days because because they weren't British or some other political reason that had nothing to do with their excellence or not.
There must a PPRuNer out there who has a better recollection,
Where are you pterodactyl??
I think they got knocked on the head in our Anglophile days because because they weren't British or some other political reason that had nothing to do with their excellence or not.
There must a PPRuNer out there who has a better recollection,
Where are you pterodactyl??
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In the meantime, Ansett branched out into other areas of the transport industry and Ansett Transport Industries Limited dominated the Australian tours market. In 1957, after the death of Sir Ian Holyman, Ansett took over ANA in one of the most unlikely take-over bids in the history of the industry. At this stage, a sudden reversal of Ansett's attitude to the two-airline policy took place and, from a detractor and fighter of same, he became its staunch supporter. A negative aspect of the situation was that Ansett was instrumental in preventing another TAA first, namely the introduction of the French Caravelle aircraft, which would have provided pure jet services on domestic routes in the early sixties.
Now it's coming back to me something about capital as well.
I'll see if I can find more.
