Ansett and the Fokker Friendship

[Stationair8]

Must be a few more stories out in Pprune land about the old Fokker?

Tinnpis you dried out yet in Darwhine?

Who crewed the F-27's when Airnorth operated them in the dispute?

[cac_sabre]

Dug this one up from the album

dunno what it was doing in Perth

[tinpis]

Who crewed the F-27's when Airnorth operated them in the dispute?
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Air Cruising?

[tinpis]

How un-Ansett is this?
No check list, no headphones no EffOh gold bars no brief nothin' just a call for "Dos!" and they swing into action
Hmm....was that an RD 45?

[cac_sabre]

don' need no steenking checkleeest!

couldnt hear anything anyway! he had earplugs in

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

One thing I do notice guys / gals......

At any 'bash', you can always pick the ex-F-27 guys....they're the ones all wearing the hearing aids.....

Those 'Darts' have a lot to answer for....

Not wishing to insult anyone, just an observation, among some of my 'favourite' acquaintances.....

Cheers

[SOPS]

Cac....do you know the date that photo was taken????

[cac_sabre]

Air NSW F27 Pic

I have no recollection of taking the pic, I am guessing mid to late 80s before the pilots' err..... strike thingie..

[SOPS]

Yeh..if it was around 86/87 it was doing (I think) an around Australia "cruise" charter type of thing..as I say..I think

[bankrunner]

tinpis, what's the bet the uniformless guy on the right is actually the CP?

Reminds me of a GA operator I once worked for...

[tinpis]

Yeh..if it was around 86/87 it was doing (I think) an around Australia "cruise" charter type of thing..as I say..I think

ANSW had "Budgies" in '86 they had a track trip going then.
There was a VERY senior FO lived in a caravan in the Ansett carpark?? he was on the Solent when it was going anyone remember him?

[john_tullamarine]

How un-Ansett is this?

As I recall, about the right height for Wynyard-Devon

[cac_sabre]

'Nutha Fokker YPPH

In boom times of excesses, the 727 in the background was one of three operated by Perth based tycoons: Bond, Holmes a Court and Stowe, I think that one is the Stowe jet.

[Dora-9]

I THINK the ANSW F.27-500’s pictured at Perth were possibly on Sydney Stock Exchange charters. The purpose was to show interested investors various mines and mining projects around the country.

The first one was operated by Ansett in October 1980. I operated the first part of the sequence, BNE-Gladstone-Moranbah-Mackay-Mt Isa-Gove-Darwin, over several days in VH-FNU. Another crew took the aircraft around the coast via Perth.

Subsequently the charters over the next few years were operated by ANSW -500’s, presumably because of the greater seating capacity

[Delta_Foxtrot]

...or shoulder harness...

[sixtiesrelic]

That's a heavy DC-3 with 40 seconds takeoff run and the slow speed of 104 to 110K.

[Aye Ess]

Ha,I thought the same thing Sixties. The end of the r/w just slid under the nose with no perceivable take off. Then the 'climb out' was tree top height for all segments.

Still,it makes the hairs stand up hearing that throaty growl of a DC3's engines (for us old fellas anyway)

[tinpis]

Probably had a big load of baking powder on board.

[34R]

Not sure if this has been posted yet but couldn't resist...

Hope none of you boys were responsible!!! Love it!!

YouTube - Ansett Close Call - 1971

[Jackbr]

Any of you remember the Airlines of New South Wales guys who were endorsed on both the F-27 and the Sandringham Flying Boats? I should think those two aircraft would have been polar opposites flying wise, yet likely a lot of fun (Except maybe commuting between SYD and Rose Bay for work)

I think all the Airlines of New South Wales Hostesses also flew the F-27 and Flying Boats...maybe it was just some of them

Flying Boats left the fleet in late '74.