Sure doesn't look like anything he has in his fleet. Although knowing Trev, it's a wonder he hasn't decided to buy something like that!

DF.

according to sources on facebook, the aircraft is from a group from the sunshine coast in Qld, on a trip to Eyres rock. sunshine coast seaplanes or something... sounds like a fun trip.

Will dills like that in the pack, it's a wonder they didn't try to land on Ayers Rock as well!

DF.

That was a file photo from some time back.


Perhaps DF can fill us in on that one.

Are you sure about that?

DF.

Erm... no I'm not.
It's just that I felt I'd seen it before.
Anyway, you're the man on the spot - what's the latest?
I also wonder why 3 needed to go out in the LongRanger - were they going to give it a push-start?.

At this stage I know no more than anyone else. I tried ringing Trev a while ago but he's in YBDV. The photo of the Sea-Rey or whatever it is on the ABC website just says Supplied: Trevor Wright - so it may well be an old photo. However I've not seen it before.

DF.

If you go back to post #8 in this thread you will see that I wondered exactly the same thing. Maybe the other two went along to stickybeak & got more than they bargained for!
I also have to question the wisdom of the chopper coming down from Moomba so late at night to pick everyone up.

DF.

OK, thanks.

Well, it's quite clearly shown in this overview of the LongRanger and the SeaRay:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/632...x2-940x627.jpg

OK, thanks John.
I couldn't pick it as a SeaRey from that O/H pic. :ok:

John I'll take your word for it, but quite frankly I don't know how anyone could make out what the aircraft is from that shot!

DF.

John probably has a very large computer monitor ;)

It must be absolutely huge then, because even on my desktop monitor which is much bigger than the laptop I still can't make it out!

DF.

There's a bleedin' close up picture of the stuck Searey in post 13 of this thread!

What more do you need, DF? :}

Creampuff, instead of jumping down my neck why don't you go back & read Stanwell's comment it post #25 where he said DF.

P.S. It has not been on any of the TV channels I watch.

DF,

So what you're telling us all is that the amphibious aircraft currently stuck on Lake Eyre North isn't perhaps a Searey?

And that it is only a file photo from sometime before?

You quote: "P.S. It has not been on any of the TV channels I watch."

May I commend the ABC to you? :)


You quote: "I tried ringing Trev a while ago but he's in YBDV." My rather ancient Telstra mobile phone worked perfectly when I was at Birdsville about a year ago.

Umm...
Gentlemen, can someone who knows something please post and put us out of our misery.
Ta!

p.s. Thanks for your positive contribution, gerry. (no smiley)
At least DF has tried to give us a local's assessment - I should get smarter and just watch ABCTV. (yawn)

Maybe someone who has his number should try calling Trev again :)

So how many Seareys do you reckon get stuck and photographed in the quagmire of a vast inland lake each year? In rough dozens. :}

I was only poking fun, not "jumping down" anyone's "neck", especially not DF's. If it came out the wrong way, DF, my apologies. :O

The 'file photos' of aircraft stuck out there - which I assume means photos taken 'before the incident the subject of this thread' - were of the carcass of a 210 from circa 2009(?), which is still out there, and of an Airvan from circa 2014(?) which was retrieved.