Pop Quiz for ANSETT-ers
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At the risk of showing my age here,
1st flight was ADL DRW sometime 1963 - DC3 via ASP (where it went AOG
and there we were .. stuck in the Alice for a couple of days) .. hooked ever since!
1st flight was ADL DRW sometime 1963 - DC3 via ASP (where it went AOG
and there we were .. stuck in the Alice for a couple of days) .. hooked ever since!
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May be able to help a little.
Firstly January the 23rd 1994 was a Sunday , so it was highly likely it was a 767. These would run full there and back- I crewed heaps of them.
The north bound flight numbers were always even , eg 12, 14, 16 etc to OOL. Flight 19 was a return sector from OOL to SYD,then from SYD to PER.
The 767 was a 2 aisle aircraft with a 2-3-2 configuration , (seats ab-cde-fg) which means that 10C was an ailse seat in the centre.
If this was the seat you remember having then it was indeed a 767. If not , at least you can eliminate it from the equation.
Firstly January the 23rd 1994 was a Sunday , so it was highly likely it was a 767. These would run full there and back- I crewed heaps of them.
The north bound flight numbers were always even , eg 12, 14, 16 etc to OOL. Flight 19 was a return sector from OOL to SYD,then from SYD to PER.
The 767 was a 2 aisle aircraft with a 2-3-2 configuration , (seats ab-cde-fg) which means that 10C was an ailse seat in the centre.
If this was the seat you remember having then it was indeed a 767. If not , at least you can eliminate it from the equation.
Evertonian
Perhaps some of the incumbent airline employees of Oz may like to see what can happen, and do what is necessary to never have this happen again.
Evertonian
The picture is of RMO and I recall it coming out of HM and on it's first trip back after the HM. (This was back in the days of DOM OPS being at Gate 4 at Tulla.) Anyway, I was amazed at how well the engine cowling's leading edge was chromed/polished, she was looking pristine.
It is indeed sad to see her in that condition, knowing that there were engineers that took some extra effort to make her shine...
Bugger! I'm getting all misty again!
It is indeed sad to see her in that condition, knowing that there were engineers that took some extra effort to make her shine...
Bugger! I'm getting all misty again!
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Hey Buster.
Isn't Misty your sister, the gymnast?
It is indeed a poignant photo to remind us all what can happen!
Only flew one AN 767 SYD/BNE, in 1997 when they still had an engineer up the front. And it was in Business Class too, very very nice!
No idea of the rego, except it departed SYD around 1800 give or take.
Great flight, that I can remember thru the wine haze.
Rock on!
Isn't Misty your sister, the gymnast?
It is indeed a poignant photo to remind us all what can happen!
Only flew one AN 767 SYD/BNE, in 1997 when they still had an engineer up the front. And it was in Business Class too, very very nice!
No idea of the rego, except it departed SYD around 1800 give or take.
Great flight, that I can remember thru the wine haze.
Rock on!
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First flight was on VH-TJA Boeing 727-76 MEB SYD. Captain was Jimmy James and I was on standyby which then was standing on the tarmac at Essendon at the rear airstairs of the beast.
That was the same combo of aeroplane and crew that took 8 feet off the fin of a Canadian DC-8 at Mascot in torrential rain when the DC-8 got lost and wandered across the operational runway. Magnificent aeroplane and magnificent airman.
I still have the passenger ticket, and several hundred others from 42 years of flying.
First flight was on TJA- and from then she seemed to be waiting to take me home on just about every flight I did as a late teen. Dad was on 10% fare as a long standing TN employees, so I got 5% as I was a student. Brilliant days.
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EWL
That was the same combo of aeroplane and crew that took 8 feet off the fin of a Canadian DC-8 at Mascot in torrential rain when the DC-8 got lost and wandered across the operational runway. Magnificent aeroplane and magnificent airman.
I still have the passenger ticket, and several hundred others from 42 years of flying.
First flight was on TJA- and from then she seemed to be waiting to take me home on just about every flight I did as a late teen. Dad was on 10% fare as a long standing TN employees, so I got 5% as I was a student. Brilliant days.
Best all
EWL
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Yes, Misty is my Sister...but she's an Olympic swimmer.
First flight, as a toddler, was on a DC-4 down to HBA, Ansett-ANA I think...too young. First memorable flight, QF707 MEL-SYD & then picked up a QF747-238 (with the Captain Cook lounge up in the bubble) SYD-SIN-KUL-DEL(I think)-BAH-ATH-FCO-LHR
First flight, as a toddler, was on a DC-4 down to HBA, Ansett-ANA I think...too young. First memorable flight, QF707 MEL-SYD & then picked up a QF747-238 (with the Captain Cook lounge up in the bubble) SYD-SIN-KUL-DEL(I think)-BAH-ATH-FCO-LHR
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Originally Posted by Buster Hyman
..... SYD-SIN-KUL-DEL(I think)-BAH-ATH-FCO-LHR
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Ahh my memory too fuzzy..
10C sounds too close to the front and possibly into the Business class zone...
and it was definately not a Quadrapuff...
Im guessing it was a B733
Thanks for you input guys.
Keep the magic of first flight posts rolling in!
10C sounds too close to the front and possibly into the Business class zone...
and it was definately not a Quadrapuff...
Im guessing it was a B733
Thanks for you input guys.
Keep the magic of first flight posts rolling in!
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First flight was October 1962 BNE POM LAE TN1302 DC6B VH-INU for the start of a long association with PNG... all the cabin crew were ladies, and I mean ladies... and we made sure that they enjoyed their stopovers (layovers doesn't sound polite!).
The old fella - rest his chancred soul - and mum were inaugural mile-highers, or so he said. The flagrant boast of some, of course, but quite something if, on the other handy bunk, so to speak, you were born en route. As happened in a Queenair between Collarenebri and Dubbo on 20th February 1976. Err Dubbo, we have revised POB. And then there were five.
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I hears ya tinpis...especially on a breakfast service...bacon, sausages, eggs of your choice and all you can eat (until they ran out) YUM!!! Plus, those noisy donks as far back as they can get...down where all the Jet* wannabees sat!
Plus, those noisy donks as far back as they can get...down where all the Jet* wannabees sat!
