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Cool pic of the 72 tail! I see the baggage guy has no hi-vis vest, I'm surprised I could see him!
Any other info on that aeroplane? I've just never heard of an oz registered 72 with tail-art before...
Any other info on that aeroplane? I've just never heard of an oz registered 72 with tail-art before...
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Rear stairs on 727
Those rear stairs on the 727 were very useful.
We used to meet canadians who flew over to Adelaide from Melbourne for the day and we would fly them up to Mt Gunson mine, and then back to catch the flight back to Melbourne in the afternoon. I always gave them a latest departure time from Mt Gunson, but they kept leaving it later and later. One day we were very late and I called the Adelaide tower and asked them to advise the airline that I had three passemgers for them. As I taxied past the 727, the tower replied "the company says you're too late", but the Captain said "are you with me or not" so I kicked the pax out and they went up the back stairs which then retracted and the 727 taxied away.
These pax took my latest departure times a lot more seriosly after that.
We used to meet canadians who flew over to Adelaide from Melbourne for the day and we would fly them up to Mt Gunson mine, and then back to catch the flight back to Melbourne in the afternoon. I always gave them a latest departure time from Mt Gunson, but they kept leaving it later and later. One day we were very late and I called the Adelaide tower and asked them to advise the airline that I had three passemgers for them. As I taxied past the 727, the tower replied "the company says you're too late", but the Captain said "are you with me or not" so I kicked the pax out and they went up the back stairs which then retracted and the 727 taxied away.
These pax took my latest departure times a lot more seriosly after that.
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Nice to see the country green again after the rain, Forkie. It was obviously somewhere that goes in for broadacre farming, contour banks, and cattle. Was at Capella myself last week (not that that is Capella strip), and if you do go there, watch out for the watertank for the cropdusters built on the end of the strip. Don't know what the Council was thinking when they allowed it to be built inside the gable markers on the southern end.
