ANSETT-ANA/COUNTRYAIR TERMINAL
Countryair; Mark Homer
Nationwide: Kerry Lovegrove.
I remember the day MCX arrived back from a newspaper run to BNE, it had battled some massive CB just North of Gayndah...both leading edges looked as though someone had pounded them with a sledgehammer..and the joys of loading MCX on The Old BNE Airport Tarmac in Mid-Summer..923Kg comes to mind, I was still perspiring at TOD ROK, freight runs to Keppel in CVF/SMI, was it 14Kg for a carton of XXXX?......"Tucker Specials", retrieving the recently departed for Tucker & Nankivel undertakers in Rocky... I remember transporting one to BNE in MCX, covered by a tarp, with Trevor Tracy's two kids down the back, unaware what their feet were resting on....putting MCY in a fenced compound at Doongmabulla so the horses wouldn't nibble at it...overnights on Marble Island with The Roberts, not to mention it's 1,600ft. strip!!.........
Nationwide: Kerry Lovegrove.
I remember the day MCX arrived back from a newspaper run to BNE, it had battled some massive CB just North of Gayndah...both leading edges looked as though someone had pounded them with a sledgehammer..and the joys of loading MCX on The Old BNE Airport Tarmac in Mid-Summer..923Kg comes to mind, I was still perspiring at TOD ROK, freight runs to Keppel in CVF/SMI, was it 14Kg for a carton of XXXX?......"Tucker Specials", retrieving the recently departed for Tucker & Nankivel undertakers in Rocky... I remember transporting one to BNE in MCX, covered by a tarp, with Trevor Tracy's two kids down the back, unaware what their feet were resting on....putting MCY in a fenced compound at Doongmabulla so the horses wouldn't nibble at it...overnights on Marble Island with The Roberts, not to mention it's 1,600ft. strip!!.........
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Other names thet come to mind from the 70's.....
Countryair: Austin Donnelly, David Cashel
TAA: Bob Cooram, Annette Martin.
Avis Girls: Juleene, Sue, Mary.
Coddair: Reg Burroughs.(Reg & Warren enjoyed playing pool at the Aeroclub!!!)
Aeroclub: Col Searle. Can't remember the CFI's name.
Countryair: Austin Donnelly, David Cashel
TAA: Bob Cooram, Annette Martin.
Avis Girls: Juleene, Sue, Mary.
Coddair: Reg Burroughs.(Reg & Warren enjoyed playing pool at the Aeroclub!!!)
Aeroclub: Col Searle. Can't remember the CFI's name.
Was looking for something else and came across this buried in an old file.
I remember having to give up about $5000 in pay to take the job because, to help with my airline applications, I needed more twin experience than I was getting.
It worked - six months later I manged to score a right seat job in a F27, for which I was rewarded with another cut in salary to $10,385
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Don and Ken were very good about me clearing off so soon after starting and being endorsed on the fleet.
I remember having to give up about $5000 in pay to take the job because, to help with my airline applications, I needed more twin experience than I was getting.
It worked - six months later I manged to score a right seat job in a F27, for which I was rewarded with another cut in salary to $10,385
.Don and Ken were very good about me clearing off so soon after starting and being endorsed on the fleet.
