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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Mar 2009, 20:57
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

"He is none the wiser as he doesnt even know what...

"He is none the wiser as he doesnt even know what kind of aircraft it is...."
Gawd... that's as bad as the ones who don't know what a DC-3 is... too much sheltered life and silly bloody computer...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Mar 2009, 10:47
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Slasher, Is the Madden you enquire about TAA or...

Slasher, Is the Madden you enquire about TAA or Ansett?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
12th Mar 2009, 09:11
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Hell Treesa... helicopters don't fly... they...

Hell Treesa...
helicopters don't fly... they remain aloft by makin' a bloody lot of noise. The earth repells 'em.
As you say you FLEW a nine so you can do anything.
I flew mimimum aircraft in the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Mar 2009, 22:23
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

I was one of the real lucky ones. Got to sit on...

I was one of the real lucky ones.
Got to sit on the old man's lap in a Dragon at eight and chase a Dingo across the Morney Plain. Throttled back at about thirty feet we stayed on his tail for what...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Mar 2009, 10:56
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Obie no one's interested in your rants... go away!

Obie no one's interested in your rants... go away!
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Mar 2009, 20:47
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Treesa, I don't know if the Ansett blokes got...

Treesa, I don't know if the Ansett blokes got that fear of the nine like the TAA blokes in the sixties.
I was round the TAA area as a kid and heard that the lack of propwash over the wings,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Mar 2009, 20:31
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Ah! dream on.... You haven't come across CASA....

Ah! dream on....
You haven't come across CASA. They'd never allow it.
Some in there have had such bliss, blocking a DC-3 for the past two and a half years.
Maaate a DC-9 project to harrrassss....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Mar 2009, 22:37
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Well Treesa I think we have to look further back...

Well Treesa I think we have to look further back to compare the olden days with now.
The reason we were afraid, or was it “fearful respect” of the Captain, was taught to us from infanthood.
We...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Mar 2009, 20:21
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Ah! Jimmy the fourth, I was there for your last...

Ah! Jimmy the fourth, I was there for your last two years but with the other mob.
What comes glaringly through with this thread and some others from the older generation is the humility.
We looked...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Mar 2009, 07:08
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Stationaie8 do we work together? Mad Mat was...

Stationaie8 do we work together? Mad Mat was talking about this very thing today.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Mar 2009, 05:35
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Crashaxes

Fire axes ... used for all sorts of things.
I was told a story that some pilots, getting really p*ssed off with having to submit to security checks removed the axe from the aircraft and put it in...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Mar 2009, 02:57
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Wasn't Johnny Benton involved in some sort of...

Wasn't Johnny Benton involved in some sort of hijack?
I thought I was told this at the old TAA museum by one of the blokes there.


OK readers.... I've read the article after I wrote th eabove....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Feb 2009, 23:32
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

There's a pilot from the same team, same era who...

There's a pilot from the same team, same era who did the same.
Got most parts from army disposals.
I'll ask him if he was sharing ideas with Bob.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Feb 2009, 22:08
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Ah! Aye Ess, findin' the time. There's boxes of...

Ah! Aye Ess, findin' the time. There's boxes of the buggers.
Too many projects.
Most pressing is sucking the memories from the brains of the B4s in PNG. They're in their nineties and I'm making a...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Feb 2009, 20:47
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Mmmm, Now doesn't THAT go to prove I was a...

Mmmm,
Now doesn't THAT go to prove I was a dunce.
The lights in the panel are a bit of a giveaway, BUT I think it would be the 200 as we did our ground school on that and just did a bit of a...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Feb 2009, 11:20
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Now for something slightly different.

Did you TAA blokes have one of these wonderful mechanical DC-9 electrics boards in the ground school.
This was a marvel of science.
You could flick switches on the sample overhead panel and relays...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Feb 2009, 07:10
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Ah! Stationair8 ... Once upon a time there was a...

Ah! Stationair8 ... Once upon a time there was a fatman and the polititian.....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Feb 2009, 04:45
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Ah! dijon moutard. So that's where CIS is. I...

Ah! dijon moutard. So that's where CIS is.
I found it in my old man's logbook when he ferried an Electra (TLB) back from the States (after the wing mod, repairing the damage and preventing the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Feb 2009, 23:02
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

That would have been around the time the Aussie...

That would have been around the time the Aussie airlines decided that four bars were necessary.
Someone from Douglas or Boeing explained to the briefing officer who had ignored a couple of old...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Feb 2009, 11:21
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Wasn’t the nine the first aircraft to come with...

Wasn’t the nine the first aircraft to come with the embarrassment switch on the yoke. The one some pressed the wrong way and everybody heard.
Back in the olden days when the last century wasn’t yet...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
17th Feb 2009, 10:42
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Now that'd be fun because no license would be...

Now that'd be fun because no license would be dependent our performance.
We could do inverted ILS's in it to our heart's content
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
17th Feb 2009, 09:14
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

OK! who's looked at it and gotten the sick...

OK! who's looked at it and gotten the sick feeling?
I can't remember climbing up into it ... last time for me was late 81.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Feb 2009, 22:11
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Hmm Chimbu... bet that FO's trousers don't fit...

Hmm Chimbu... bet that FO's trousers don't fit him now.
The Melbourne nine simulator... remember the kitchen chair the instructor sat on between the victims.
During my endorsement at one of those...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Feb 2009, 09:01
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

I went CS GOV DN and DN GOV CS BN the next day...

I went CS GOV DN and DN GOV CS BN the next day in may 1979 in Ansett DC-9.
I Remember at some stage the MMA crews took the 9 down to Perh via PD I guess while we overnighted in DN.
I seem to...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Feb 2009, 09:48
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Teresa. I wasn't talking about Pete. I was...

Teresa. I wasn't talking about Pete.
I was talking about my old man who Pete might have known as 'the abominable NOman" and I described above.
I never flew with Pete although I did spend six...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Feb 2009, 00:14
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Good onya Emeritus. It's great to hear from those...

Good onya Emeritus. It's great to hear from those that were there for our history.
Many who only heard stories get 'em wrong.
I'm lucky that I know one of the old blokes from the prewar New Guinea...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Feb 2009, 09:29
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Treesa. He's dead. Flew there before the war. ...

Treesa. He's dead.
Flew there before the war.
Joined TAA in 1946 and was Very very very senior.
I've been to both reunions.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Feb 2009, 12:17
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

The biannual TAA Ansett PNG get together

Treesa and others... 17th October.
[email protected] gets you the announcement.
THIS year we need to see more Ansett deros. Let 'em know about it if you know any.
There's chicks who used to...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Feb 2009, 21:18
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Lodown... can I use THAT when talking to the...

Lodown... can I use THAT when talking to the modern generation. You've got it in a nutshell.
We flew 'em then ... they monitor the systems now.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Feb 2009, 00:53
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

146!!! Claret! we're talking about aeroplanes...

146!!!
Claret! we're talking about aeroplanes here.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Feb 2009, 21:57
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Cripes Centaurus, we're talkin' about the glories...

Cripes Centaurus, we're talkin' about the glories of the olden days mate!
We got away with it!
Never saw a high flyin' bird in some parts of the country yet knew about 'em in others and was wary....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Feb 2009, 10:58
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

I don't think anyone addressed that question...

I don't think anyone addressed that question about three crew in the nine.
TAA had three for a very short time when the kerfuffle about flight engineers was on, while AnsettANA blokes went on...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
30th Jan 2009, 06:41
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

Oh Treesa! Poor bloody horse...

Oh Treesa!
Poor bloody horse couldn't help fallin' in the barret. Fancy wantin' to kill it.
Ha ha.
Wonder how many of us fell in barrets ot one time or another.
Sorta off the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Jan 2009, 08:19
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g32/sixtiesrelic...

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g32/sixtiesrelic/AirVanCZF-1.jpg

Back in the olden days when pilots were sort of respected, Ansett painted CZF up in Air Van colours when we started flying their...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Jan 2009, 04:55
Replies: 745
Views: 243,997
Posted By sixtiesrelic

The Twotters were working out of Brisbane and...

The Twotters were working out of Brisbane and Mackay in 1969 too.
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