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Jabba given the storms around SE QLD yesterday, were you out flying again? 
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....Wouldn't have been UnionAir would it? Seem to recall they had a tribe of Bongos and triple-bongos in and outa there.......
In the old days, had to land on the beach out front, when the tide was out, as the opposition had the rights to use the strip and wouldn't let us..
I'm told there was another PC12 out of shot, for a total of 9 a/c ....... any ideas where?
.That would be Mount Isa, during Cyclone Yasi....... of course, right before they all went "oh ****" and then flew them all down to Charleville,
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....Wouldn't have been UnionAir would it? Seem to recall they had a tribe of Bongos and triple-bongos in and outa there.......
Was referring to Island Airways actually. Run then by Don Adams from his strip at Aeroasis at Hervey Bay (since closed and subdivided). His partner, Sir Reginald Barnwall, built the resort at Orchid Beach in the Samoan style (having spent time working there, and setting up Polynesian Airlines, before settling here) and would refuse permission for our small operation to come in. Most of our flights were to Bogimba, Yidney Rocks and Happy Valley for the store, and Eurong anyway. At the time Island Airways had the distributorship for Islanders for Australia and the South Pacific, they brought the first one into the region. They sold out later to Snow Richards of UnionAir, Toowoomba, and Reg went to Rainbow Beach and built the strip there. Unionair hit their straps with the sand mining shift changes from Hervey Bay and Maryborough daily, in Twotter's and Tri's to Toby's, but lost the race to build a strip at Noosa for a commuter service. We did some limited shift changing from our strip at Noosa in 6 and Islander onto the beach just south of the Cherry Venture for one small sand mining operation for a while, before and after the commuter runs to and from Bris.
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aint you glad we have "Unique" conditions here in OZ
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American Airlines ramp @ O'Hare :
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American Airlines ramp @ O'Hare :
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Taxied past at LHR a couple of weeks ago.
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You were meant to find that hole in the ground somewhere a little further west, that one is the Gabba. And the radio mast was not those on Mt Coot-tha either 
